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Republic of Madagascar
National name: Repoblikan'i Madagasikara
President and Head of State: Didier Ratsiraka (1997)
Prime Minister: Tantely Andrianarivo (1998)
Area: 226,660 sq. mi. (587,040 sq. km)
Population (1999 est.): 14,873,387 (average annual rate of natural increase: 2.80%); birth rate: 41.5/1000; infant mortality rate: 89.1/1000; density per sq. mi.: 66
Capital and largest city (1993 est.): Antananarivo, 1,000,000
Monetary unit: Malagasy franc
Languages: Malagasy, French
Ethnicity/race: Malayo-Indonesian (Merina and related Betsileo), Cotiers (mixed African, Malayo-Indonesian, and Arab ancestry—Betsimisaraka, Tsimihety, Antaisaka, Sakalava), French, Indian, Creole, Comoran
Religions: traditional, 52%; Christian, 41%; Islam, 7%
Literacy rate: 80%
Economic summary: GDP/PPP (1997 est.): $10.3 billion; $730 per capita. Real growth rate: 3%. Inflation: 4.5% (1997). Unemployment: n.a. Arable land: 4%. Agriculture: coffee, vanilla, sugarcane, cloves, cocoa, rice, cassava (tapioca), beans, bananas, peanuts; livestock products. Labor force: 7 million (1995). Industry: meat processing, soap, breweries, tanneries, sugar, textiles, glassware, cement, automobile assembly plant, paper, petroleum, tourism. Natural resources: graphite, chromite, coal, bauxite, salt, quartz, tar sands, semiprecious stones, mica, fish. Exports: $170 million (f.o.b., 1997): coffee, vanilla, cloves, shellfish, sugar, petroleum products. Imports: $477 million (f.o.b., 1997): intermediate manufactures, capital goods, petrolelum, consumer goods, food. Major trading partners: France, Japan, Germany, Reunion, Iran, South Africa, U.S.
