Country comparison: France / Madagascar

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for France and Madagascar. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	France	Madagascar
Region:	Western Europe	Eastern Africa
Area:	549,087 km²	587,295 km²
National language:	French	Malagasy
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Semi-presidential republic
Independent since:	843 AD	1960 AD
Capital:	Paris	Antananarivo

Population

Details for France and Madagascar

	France	Madagascar
Population:	67,750,000	28,916,000
Inhabitants/km²:	123.4	49.2
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 63 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 68 years
Average age:	Ø 41.7 years	Ø 20.3 years
Birth rate:	10.90 ‰	31.34 ‰
Death rate:	9.90 ‰	6.80 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.06 ‰	0.00 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	France	Madagascar
Political stability:	74	45
Civil rights:	85	27
Health:	92	17
Climate:	41	77
Cost of Living:	30	65
Popularity:	71	33

Economy

Details for France and Madagascar

	France	Madagascar
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	Malagasy ariary (1 MGA =5 Iraimbilanja)
Unemployment rate:	8.1 %	2.6 %
Inflation rate:	1.64 %	5.81 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	96.23 %	28.56 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	60.70 %	38.30 %
Average income:	44,160 US$	490 US$
Corruption index:	28 (good)	74 (very bad)

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	MDG: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,957,880 M US$	43.66 M US$	14,473 M US$	0.50 M US$
Gross national product:	2,991,553 M US$	44.16 M US$	14,050 M US$	0.49 M US$
Exported goods:	920,864 M US$	13.59 M US$	3,341 M US$	0.12 M US$
Imported goods:	957,717 M US$	14.14 M US$	4,768 M US$	0.16 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for France and Madagascar

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	MDG: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,053,215 km	15.55 km	31,640 km	1.09 km
Railways:	29,640 km	0.44 km	836 km	0.03 km
Harbours:	548	0.0081	27	0.0009
Passenger airports:	61	0.0009	37	0.0013

Energy balance

Details for France and Madagascar

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	MDG: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	450.80 bn kWh	6.65 m kWh	1.59 bn kWh	54,883.77 kWh
Energy production:	529.10 bn kWh	7.81 m kWh	1.71 bn kWh	58,999.19 kWh
Energy export:	61.41 bn kWh	906,425.59 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
Energy imports:	19.90 bn kWh	293,728.53 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
CO2 emissions:	300.52 m t	4,435.74 t	4.12 m t	142.48 t

Telecommunication

Details for France and Madagascar

	France	Madagascar
International dialing:	+33	+261
Internet domain:	.fr	.mg

	FRA total	FRA per 1000 inh.	MDG total	MDG per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	37,759,000	557	26,271	1
Mobile cellulars:	72,751,000	1074	16,279,633	563
Internet server:	17,266,000	255	38,392	1
Internet users:	58,329,375	861	2,833,734	98
Broadband Internet:	30,627,000	452	30,933	1

Healthcare system

Details for France and Madagascar

	France	Madagascar
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	5.91	0.20
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.23	0.18
Diabetes:	4.8 %	4.5 %
HIV:	0.17 %	0.60 %
Tuberculosis:	0.08 ‰	2.33 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	37.0 %	83.0 %
Smokers:	33.4 %	27.8 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: France and Madagascar

	France	Madagascar
Daytime temperatures:	16.9 °C	27.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.9 °C	18.2 °C
Water temperature:	15.4 °C	25.2 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	78 %
Rain days:	8.9	10.1
Sunshine hours per day:	5.5	7.8

Native languages

	France	Madagascar
Malagasy:	n/a	95.4 %
French:	93.6 %	2.3 %
Arabic:	2.5 %	n/a
Comorian:	n/a	1.7 %
Portuguese:	1.2 %	n/a
Italian:	0.4 %	n/a
Spanish:	0.4 %	n/a
Turkish:	0.4 %	n/a
Swahili:	n/a	0.4 %
other:	1.5 %	0.2 %

Religions

	France	Madagascar
Christianity:	64.0 %	41.0 %
Native religions:	n/a	52.0 %
Nondenominational:	24.0 %	n/a
Islam:	8.0 %	7.0 %
Jewry:	0.7 %	n/a
Buddhism:	0.6 %	n/a
other:	2.7 %	0.0 %

Data inventory and updates

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