Country profile · Sub-Saharan Africa · LIC
🇲🇬 Madagascar
Low income. Capital Antananarivo. Lower-third GDP/cap (LIC · MID) - 40 series with wider survey lag risk.
- 32 million
- Population
- $17.6 billion
- GDP
- $550
- GDP / capita
- 63.8 years
- Life expectancy
Lower-third GDP/cap · MID
Madagascar ranks 138th of 217 by total GDP and 196th for life expectancy - a low income economy in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- #138
- World GDP rank (of 217)
- $550
- GDP per capita
- #196
- Life-expectancy rank
- #49
- Population rank
Madagascar lands in the lower third of GDP/cap (#210 of 214) - LIC · MID - so national averages need rural/urban caution.
Madagascar vs all countries by total GDP
Where this economy's World Bank total GDP sits among every country with a positive observation (inventory signal, not a virtue ranking)
$17,592,832,696 138th of 214 higher than 76 of 214 countries
Countries banded by World Bank total GDP (current US$)
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Source World Bank, GDP (current US$) · 2026-08-14
Madagascar on the global income map
Madagascar (MDG) sits in the lower GDP/cap third - plotted with largest peers; bubble area = population.
- Madagascar: GDP per capita $550 (2024), life expectancy 63.8 years (2024), low income.
- India: GDP per capita $2,695 (2024), life expectancy 72.2 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- China: GDP per capita $13,303 (2024), life expectancy 78.0 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- United States: GDP per capita $84,534 (2024), life expectancy 78.9 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Indonesia: GDP per capita $4,925 (2024), life expectancy 71.3 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- Pakistan: GDP per capita $1,479 (2024), life expectancy 67.8 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Nigeria: GDP per capita $1,084 (2024), life expectancy 54.6 years (2024), low income.
- Brazil: GDP per capita $10,311 (2024), life expectancy 76.0 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- Bangladesh: GDP per capita $2,593 (2024), life expectancy 74.9 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Russian Federation: GDP per capita $14,889 (2024), life expectancy 73.4 years (2024), high income.
- Ethiopia: GDP per capita $1,134 (2024), life expectancy 67.6 years (2024), low income.
- Mexico: GDP per capita $14,186 (2024), life expectancy 75.3 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Japan: GDP per capita $32,487 (2024), life expectancy 84.0 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Egypt, Arab Rep.: GDP per capita $3,338 (2024), life expectancy 71.8 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Philippines: GDP per capita $3,985 (2024), life expectancy 69.9 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Congo, Dem. Rep.: GDP per capita $693 (2024), life expectancy 62.1 years (2024), low income.
- Viet Nam: GDP per capita $4,717 (2024), life expectancy 74.7 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- Iran, Islamic Rep.: GDP per capita $5,190 (2024), life expectancy 77.9 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- Turkiye: GDP per capita $15,893 (2024), life expectancy 77.4 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Germany: GDP per capita $56,104 (2024), life expectancy 80.8 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Thailand: GDP per capita $7,387 (2024), life expectancy 76.6 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- United Kingdom: GDP per capita $53,246 (2024), life expectancy 81.4 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Tanzania: GDP per capita $1,193 (2024), life expectancy 67.2 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- France: GDP per capita $46,103 (2024), life expectancy 83.0 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- South Africa: GDP per capita $6,267 (2024), life expectancy 66.3 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- Italy: GDP per capita $40,385 (2024), life expectancy 84.0 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Kenya: GDP per capita $2,133 (2024), life expectancy 63.8 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Myanmar: GDP per capita $1,359 (2024), life expectancy 67.1 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Colombia: GDP per capita $7,951 (2024), life expectancy 77.9 years (2024), upper-middle income, OECD member.
- Korea, Rep.: GDP per capita $36,239 (2024), life expectancy 83.6 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Sudan: GDP per capita $985 (2024), life expectancy 66.5 years (2024), low income.
Overview
Madagascar has a population of 32 million, making it the 49th-most populous country out of 217 tracked in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Its economy totals $17.6 billion - ranked 138th globally by total GDP. GDP per capita stands at $550, placing it in the Low income category.
Life expectancy at birth is 63.8 years (ranked 196th globally), reflecting overall health outcomes as measured by the World Bank.
The capital is Antananarivo.
👥 Demographics
💰 Economy
🏥 Health
📚 Education
🌍 Environment
🏗️ Infrastructure
⚖️ Social
🌐 Livability Score
One composite verdict from 4 of 5 World Bank series (life expectancy, under-5 mortality, electricity access, clean-water access, homicide rate), each benchmarked against every country tracking that series. A missing series never silently drags the score down: its weight redistributes across the series Madagascar does report.
All indicators for Madagascar
40 latest observations from World Bank WDI, WHO GHO, and ILO ILOSTAT (vintage through 2026-08-14). Values match the topic cards above; this table is the machine-readable export view analysts expect on a country profile.
🫀 Disease Burden
Malaria still registers on Madagascar (65.4 per 100,000 vs fleet midpoint 0.3). Profiles where that cell is zero drop the card entirely. Summary metrics use 2021 data; cause-specific cards show their own observation year.
Non-communicable Diseases
Communicable & Maternal
Sources: WHO Global Health Observatory. NCD mortality rate: 2021. Rates are age-standardized per 100,000 population. Premature NCD risk covers cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and chronic respiratory disease.
Compare Madagascar with near GDP/cap peers
Side-by-side pages for the closest ABS GDP/cap neighbours - not a full-roster dropdown.
Read with Madagascar
Nearest GDP/cap peers and LE poles for Madagascar (LIC · MID), replacing the old fixed guide and region clone strip.
LIC MID
Malawi · LIC
Malawi GDP/cap $522 is lower by $28 than Madagascar; LE stamp MID vs MID.
Central African Republic · LIC
Central African Republic GDP/cap $516 is lower by $34 than Madagascar; LE stamp SHORT vs MID.
Somalia, Fed. Rep. · LIC
Somalia, Fed. Rep. GDP/cap $630 is higher by $79 than Madagascar; LE stamp SHORT vs MID.
Yemen, Rep. · LIC
Yemen, Rep. GDP/cap $634 is higher by $84 than Madagascar; LE stamp MID vs MID.
Sub-Saharan Africa WDI roster
Madagascar stamps LIC · MID inside Sub-Saharan Africa - open the region roster after the ABS peers.
GDP/cap leaderboard (#210)
Madagascar ranks #210 of 214 on NY.GDP.PCAP.CD under the LIC Atlas band.
What the data says about Madagascar
Statistical infrastructure in low-income economies like Madagascar typically relies more heavily on household surveys and modeled estimates than on continuous administrative registration, so several figures on this profile carry a wider margin of uncertainty and a longer lag between the reference year and today than a high-income country's data would. With a small population, a single survey round or a change in methodology can shift Madagascar's reported figures noticeably from one release to the next, independent of any real change on the ground. Where a field on this page reads "N/A," it usually means the relevant international agency has not yet published a recent estimate for Madagascar, not that the underlying condition doesn't exist.
Madagascar lands in the lower third of GDP/cap (#210 of 214) - LIC · MID - so national averages need rural/urban caution.
Madagascar's 32 million people and $17.6 billion GDP (138th) yield $550 per person in the lower GDP/cap third. Life expectancy 63.8 years (196th, MID) and survey lag both matter when reading single-year cells. 40 official points sit in the tables.
Nearest ABS GDP/cap peer: Malawi at $522 (Δ $28). Open that profile or the GDP/cap leaderboard before treating any single year as destiny.
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Source: World Bank Open Data, Source: WHO Global Health Observatory, Source: ILO ILOSTAT. World Bank and ILO data licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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