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IndicatorMDGMadagascarSub-Saharan Africa
Governance
Civil liberties index (V-Dem)0-10.65rank #84
Control of Corruption0-100 percentile27.4rank #163
Deliberative democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.18rank #115
Egalitarian democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.17rank #117
Freedom of expression index (V-Dem)0-10.64rank #86
Government Effectiveness0-100 percentile34.6rank #165
Human rights index (V-Dem)0-10.65rank #84
Military spending% GDP0.71%rank #128
Participatory democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.22rank #100
Political Stability & Absence of Violence0-100 percentile57.7rank #142
Regulatory Quality0-100 percentile43.1rank #154
Rule of Law0-100 percentile41.8rank #157
Rule of law index (V-Dem)0-10.15rank #134
V-Dem electoral democracy0-10.36rank #94
V-Dem liberal democracy0-10.19rank #105
Voice & Accountability0-100 percentile44.2rank #137
Women in parliament% seats14.1%rank #139
Women's political empowerment index (V-Dem)0-10.7rank #90
Economy
Agricultural employment% employment69.2%rank #5
Agriculture value added% GDP21.7%rank #25
Annual working hours per workerhours1,799.3rank #83
Capital stock per worker2017 US$ per worker6,609rank #171
Current account balance% GDP-4.3%rank #116
Employment-to-population ratio%83%rank #3
External debt stocks% GNI39.2%rank #46
FDI net inflows% GDP3.4%rank #72
GDPcurrent US$19.62Brank #132
GDP growth%3%rank #104
GDP per capita (nominal)current US$599.3rank #184
GDP per capita, PPP2021 intl $1,668.5rank #179
GNI per capita (PPP)2021 intl $1,655.8rank #183
Government expenditure% GDP11%rank #83
Gross capital formation% GDP24.1%rank #58
Gross savings% GDP17.5%rank #101
High-technology exports% manuf. exports0.96%rank #113
Human capital indexindex1.7rank #129
Industry value added% GDP23.9%rank #88
Inflation%8.1%rank #141
Labour force participation rate%85.5%rank #2
Personal remittances received% GDP2.3%rank #80
R&D expenditure% GDP0.01%rank #96
Researchers in R&Dper million32.9rank #78
Tax revenue% GDP10.9%rank #75
Trade openness% GDP54.2%rank #98
Unemployment% labor force3%rank #41
Unemployment rate (ILO modelled)%3%rank #43
Vulnerable employment% employment84.4%rank #180
Youth unemployment% ages 15-245.2%rank #27
Youth unemployment rate (ILO modelled)% ages 15-244.9%rank #26
Health
Basic drinking water access% pop55.3%rank #165
Basic sanitation access% pop15.4%rank #174
Child mortalityper 1006.2rank #139
Daily caloric supply per capitakcal1,978rank #173
DTP3 immunization coverage%60%rank #39
Health spending% GDP3.4%rank #169
Infant mortalityper 1k births43rank #130
Life expectancyyears63.8rank #196
Maternal mortalityper 100k445rank #106
Measles immunization% children46%rank #41
Measles (MCV1) immunization coverage%46%rank #41
Physiciansper 1k0.17rank #102
PM2.5 air pollution exposureug/m312.4rank #62
Road traffic deathsper 100k29.2rank #115
Smoking prevalence% adults25.6%rank #96
Suicide mortality rateper 100k6.1rank #74
Tuberculosis incidenceper 100k224rank #126
Under-5 mortality rateper 1k births62.4rank #178
Undernourishment% pop39.5%rank #81
Education
Adult literacy%74.7%rank #35
Education spending% GDP3%rank #83
Expected years of schoolingyears9.1rank #179
Mean years of schoolingyears4.6rank #172
Primary completion rate% relevant age60.7%rank #106
Primary enrollment% gross132.7%rank #4
Secondary enrollment% gross34.1%rank #146
Tertiary enrollment% gross6.1%rank #125
Demography
Crude birth rateper 1,00031.7rank #22
Fertility ratebirths/woman3.9rank #26
Median age of populationyears18.9rank #186
Net migration rateper 1,000-0.05rank #97
Populationpeople32.74Mrank #49
Population growth%2.4%rank #28
Projected life expectancy in 2050 (medium)years68.3rank #195
Projected population in 2050 (medium)thousands53,185.5rank #37
Total age dependency ratioper 100 working-age75.2rank #31
Urban population%32.9%rank #177
Climate
CO₂ emissionst4.53Mrank #140
CO₂ per capitat0.14rank #196
Electricity access% pop42.5%rank #70
Electricity from coal% generation20.6%rank #46
Electricity from hydro% generation37%rank #51
Electricity from solar% generation4.1%rank #84
Electricity from wind% generation0%rank #104
Electric power consumptionkWh per capita80.1rank #144
Forest area% land21.3%rank #131
GHG emissions per capitatCO2e per capita2.9rank #56
Power-sector CO2 intensitygCO2/kWh432.1rank #90
Renewable electricity%42.4%rank #69
Renewable energy share%83.1%rank #5
Total GHG emissions incl. LULUCFMtCO2e90.3rank #129
Society
Asylum seekerspeople362rank #46
Extreme poverty% pop69.2%rank #45
Female labor participation%82.9%rank #1
Fixed broadband subscriptionsper 1000.12rank #157
Gender Development Indexratio0.93rank #71
Gender Inequality Index0-10.58rank #138
Gini indexindex36.8rank #45
Human Development Index0-10.49rank #150
Inequality-adjusted HDI0-10.32rank #134
Internet users% pop18.7%rank #173
Life satisfaction0-104.2rank #129
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI0-10.48rank #118
Poverty gap at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0.14rank #177
Poverty headcount at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0.44rank #144
Poverty headcount at $3.65/dayproportion (0-1)0.77rank #177
Poverty headcount at $6.85/dayproportion (0-1)0.94rank #198
Refugees hosted (by country of asylum)people87rank #145
Refugees originating (by country of origin)people637rank #66
Youth NEET rate%24.5%rank #130
Risk
Deaths in armed conflictsdeaths0rank #1
Hazard & exposure0-104.7rank #41
Human hazard & exposure0-103.6rank #31
INFORM risk score0-105.8rank #46
Lack of coping capacity0-107.5rank #65
Lack of infrastructure coping capacity0-107.7rank #65
Lack of institutional coping capacity0-107.2rank #51
Natural hazard & exposure0-105.6rank #43
Organized-violence deaths (total)deaths/year23rank #11
Socio-economic vulnerability0-106.8rank #65
Vulnerability0-105.6rank #45
Vulnerable groups0-104rank #35
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