coffee, vanilla, sugarcane, cloves, cocoa, rice, cassava (tapioca), beans, bananas, peanuts; livestock products |
coffee, vanilla, sugarcane, cloves, cocoa, rice, cassava (tapioca), beans, bananas, peanuts; livestock products |
GDP: purchasing power parity - $11.5 billion (1999 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 4.5% (1999 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $780 (1999 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
34%
industry:
12%
services:
54% (1997 est.)
Population below poverty line: NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
2.3%
highest 10%:
34.9% (1993)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 9.5% (1999 est.)
Labor force: 7 million (1995)
Unemployment rate: NA%
Budget:
revenues:
$553 million
expenditures:
$735 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (1998 est.)
Industries: meat processing, soap, breweries, tanneries, sugar, textiles, glassware, cement, automobile assembly plant, paper, petroleum, tourism
Industrial production growth rate: 5% (1999 est.)
Electricity - production: 750 million kWh (1998)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
33.33%
hydro:
66.67%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 698 million kWh (1998)
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (1998)
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (1998)
Agriculture - products: coffee, vanilla, sugarcane, cloves, cocoa, rice, cassava (tapioca), beans, bananas, peanuts; livestock products
Exports: $600 million (f.o.b., 1998 est.)
Exports - commodities: coffee 45%, vanilla 20%, cloves, shellfish, sugar, petroleum products (1995 est.)
Exports - partners: France 40%, US 9%, Germany 8%, Japan 6%, UK 6% (1997)
Imports: $881 million (c.i.f., 1998 est.)
Imports - commodities: intermediate manufactures 30%, capital goods 28%, petroleum 15%, consumer goods 14%, food 13% (1995 est.)
Imports - partners: France 39%, Hong Kong 5%, Japan 5%, China, Singapore (1997)
Debt - external: $4.1 billion (1997 est.)
Economic aid - recipient: $838 million (1997)
Currency: 1 Malagasy franc (FMG) = 100 centimes
Exchange rates: Malagasy francs (FMG) per US$1 - 6,302.9 (October 1999), 5,877.81 (1999), 5,441.4 (1998), 5,090.9 (1997), 4,061.3 (1996), 4,265.6 (1995)
Fiscal year: calendar year