About 74 percent of Madagascar's population lives on the eastern half of the island, with some also in the central highlands, and there are many reasons for this. The majority of the population ...

The Madagascar Poverty Assessment report launched in February 2024 provides an account of the evolution of poverty and living conditions in Madagascar in the last decade (2012-2022). These are the ...

Madagascar is one of the world's poorest nations, with a per capita income of approximately $240 per year. About 80 percent of the population are subsistence farmers, many of whom depend entirely ...

PODCAST: Will the Madagascar election bring change? With a population of around 30m, just 11m people are registered to vote in Madagascar. Polls opened at 06:00 local time (03:00 GMT) and closed ...

Nearly half the population of Madagascar lives in severe poverty. The country is particularly poor in sanitation data and ranks 166th globally for water and sanitation indicators.1 For example, in the ...