Population:
19,448,815 (July 2007 est.)

Languages:
English (official), French (official), Malagasy (official)

Capital:
Antananarivo

GDP (purchasing power parity):
$19.95 billion (2007 est.)

GDP (official exchange rate):
$5.504 billion (2007 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:
6.3% (2007 est.)

GDP - per capita (PPP):
$1,000 (2007 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 27.3%
industry: 15.8%
services: 56.8% (2007 est.)

Agriculture - products:
coffee, vanilla, sugarcane, cloves, cocoa, rice, cassava (tapioca), beans, bananas, peanuts; livestock products

Industries:
meat processing, seafood, soap, breweries, tanneries, sugar, textiles, glassware, cement, automobile assembly plant, paper, petroleum, tourism

Exports:
$1.027 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)

Exports - commodities:
coffee, vanilla, shellfish, sugar, cotton cloth, chromite, petroleum products

Exports - partners:
France 32.1%, US 25.3%, Germany 6.1%, Italy 5.1%, UK 4.1% (2006)

Imports:
$2.005 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)

Imports - partners:
France 13.9%, China 12%, Iran 9.3%, Mauritius 5.6%, Hong Kong 4.8% (2006)