Madagascar
Madagascar in numbers
38 measures of Madagascar from 1800 to 2025, each charted year by year with where it comes from. Where a source publishes projections, they run on to 2100, drawn apart from the estimates.
Every measure
Health
People
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spending0.62% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$111M in 2025
- Military spending per person$4 in 2025
- Military share of state spending3.8% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel22,000 people in 2020
- National power0.11% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.15% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports3 million TIV in 2025
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Madagascar with…
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- Madagascar vs Kenya
- Madagascar vs Sudan
- Madagascar vs Uganda
- Madagascar vs Angola
- Madagascar vs Mozambique
- Madagascar vs Ghana
- Madagascar vs Côte d’Ivoire
- Madagascar vs Cameroon
- Madagascar vs Niger
- Madagascar vs Mali
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- Madagascar vs Malawi
- Madagascar vs Zambia
- Madagascar vs Chad
- Madagascar vs Somalia
- Madagascar vs Senegal
- Madagascar vs Zimbabwe
- Madagascar vs Guinea
- Madagascar vs Benin
- Madagascar vs Rwanda
- Madagascar vs Burundi
- Madagascar vs South Sudan
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, WHO/UNICEF, IHME, World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
- 2 measures are climate model output, marked as modelled: not measurements.
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