
Trade and Business in Madagascar
Foreign Trade and Business in Madagascar, Antananarivo, East Africa
The Island of Madagascar (Malagasy
Republic) is an
East African
insular country (Indian Ocean)
- Repoblikan'i Madagasikara in Malagasy language
- Antananarivo is the economic, political and administrative capital of Madagascar and the largest Malagasy city
- Largest Malagasy cities (in parentheses, the province):
Antananarivo (Analamanga), Toamasina (Atsinanana), Antsirabe (Vakinankaratra), Fianarantsoa (Haute Matsiatra), Mahajanga (Boeny),
Toliara (Atsimo-Andrefana), Antsiranana (Diana), Antanifotsy (Vakinankaratra),
Ambovombe-Androy (Androy) and Amparafaravola (Amparafaravola)
- Madagascar is one of the poorest African countries
- 69% of the Malagasy population lives below the national poverty
threshold of one dollar per day
- According to the United Nations, Madagascar belongs to the
least developed countries group
- Main Malagasy economic activities: agriculture, fishing and
forestry
- Madagascar controls 50% of the world vanilla market
- Madagascar is the third African rice producer
- Madagascar is the world's leading lychees exporter
- Madagascar is the world's largest species exporter
- Malagasy mineral resources
- Madagascar supplies 50% of sapphires
global supply
- Madagascar has one of the largest world ilmenite (titanium ore) reserves
- Madagascar has important chromite, coal, iron, cobalt,
copper and nickel reserves
- Oilfields in Tsimiroro and Bemolanga
- 2009-2013: Malagasy political crisis
- Closest countries to Madagascar: the
Comoros,
Mauritius,
Mozambique,
the Seychelles, Eswatini (Swaziland) and Tanzania
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- Malagasy population: 25 million people
- Population density
of Madagascar: 35.2 inhabitants / square kilometres
- Madagascar is a unitary semi-presidential constitutional republic
- Area of Madagascar: 587.041 square kilometres
- Madagascar is the
fourth largest island in the world
- High Central Plateaus (Merina people, Antananarivo)

- Madagascar obtained its Independence from France in 1960
- Calling code of Madagascar: 261
- Country code top-level domain of Madagascar: .mg
- Currency of Madagascar: Malagasy Ariary (MGA)

Transport and Logistics in Madagascar
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Ports of Madagascar: Toamasina, Ehoala and Tamatave
- Asia-Africa Growth Corridor


Regionsof Madagascar
The 22 regions (faritra) of Madagascar are (region / capital / population in
thousands of people / Area in square kilometres):

- Diana / Antsiranana I / 719 / 19,266
- Sava / Sambava / 1,007 / 25,518
- Itasy / Miarinarivo / 752 / 6,993
- Analamanga / Antananarivo-Renivohitra / 3,440 / 16,911
- Vakinankaratra / Antsirabe I / 1,852 / 16,599
- Bongolava / Tsiroanomandidy / 469 / 16,688
- Sofia / Antsohihy / 1,280 / 50,100
- Boeny / Majunga I (Mahajanga I) / 821 / 31,046
- Betsiboka / Maevatanana / 301 / 30,025
- Melaky / Maintirano / 297 / 38,852
- Alaotra-Mangoro / Ambatondrazaka / 1,054 / 31,948
- Atsinanana / Tamatave I (Toamasina I) / 1,305 / 21,934
- Analanjirofo / East Fénérive (Fenoarivo Atsinanana) / 1,063 / 21,930
- Amoron'i Mania / Ambositra / 734 / 16,141
- Haute Matsiatra / Fianarantsoa / 1,231 / 21,080
- Vatovavy-Fitovinany / Manakara / 1,454 / 19,605
- Atsimo-Atsinanana / Farafangana / 923 / 18,863
- Ihorombe / Ihosy / 320 / 26,391
- Menabe / Morondava / 608 / 46,121
- Atsimo-Andrefana / Tuléar I (Toliara I) / 1,352 / 66,236
- Androy / Ambovombe-Androy / 753 / 19,317
- Anôsy / Tôlanaro / 690,019 / 25,731

Economic Integration Organisations (Madagascar)
- Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
- United States-COMESA Agreement
- Southern African Development Community (SADC)
- COMESA-EAC-SADC
Tripartite Free Trade Agreement
- Madagascar has an Economic Partnership Agreement with the
European Union
- European Union-Eastern and Southern African States (Madagascar,
Mauritius, Seychelles, Zimbabwe) Free Trade Agreement
- Indian-Ocean Rim Association (IORA)
- Indian Ocean Commission
- International Organization of La Francophonie (OIF)

- African Union (AU)
- African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD)
- Economic Commission for Africa (CEA)
- African Development Bank (AfDB)

Madagascar is not a member of the
Organisation for the Harmonisation of Business Law in Africa (OHADA)
Main Malagasy ethnicities:
The Malagasy ethnic group makes up more than 90% of the population of
Madagascar and is generally divided into eighteen ethnic subgroups.
- Recent DNA research has revealed that the genetic make-up of Madagascar
is a mixture of genes from south-east Asia and
East Africa
- Merina, of the central highlands of Madagascar, is the largest ethnic subgroup of Madagascar with approximately 26% of the
population
- The largest coastal ethnic subgroups are the Betsimisaraka (15%),
Tsimihety and Akalava.
The national languages are Malagasy and French.
- Malagasy language is of Malay-Polynesian origin and is spoken
throughout Madagascar.
- 20% of the Malagasy population speak French
- English was the official language from 2007 to 2010
The main religions in Madagascar are Traditional African Religions and Christianity History of Madagascar- 88 million years: Madagascar separated from the Indian peninsula
Higher Education in Madagascar
Minister of Higher Education and Research
- University of Antananarivo
- University of Antsiranana
- University of Fianarantsoa
- University of Mahajanga
- University of Toamasina
- University of Toliara
-
Catholic University of Madagascar (privada)
- Higher Institute of Technology of Antananarivo
- Higher Institute of Technology of Antsiranana
- Higher Institute of Technology regional Amoron’i Mania of Ambositra (ISTRAM)
- National Centre of tele-education of Madagascar
Madagascar is a member of
- African and Malagasy Council for Higher Education (CAMES)
- University Agency of La Francophonie (AUF)
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