Global Inequality Resources: LIC - Madagascar

Madagascar is the world’s fifth largest island, situated in the Indian Ocean off the coast of southern Africa...

Madagascar is currently ranked 164 out of 189 countries in the Human Development Index (HDI)...

Appeal Highlights

1:49 minute video about food security

On average, schools in the Eastern and Southern African region have been fully closed for 22 weeks, as of 28 February 2022...

The world's poorest countries suffered from civil wars, ethnic and sectarian strife and then COVID-19 came along making bad situations worse.

Unpacking deprivation bundles
to reduce multidimensional poverty

Highlights

Population now: 29,478,632...

Gender equality in Madagascar was reported at 0.66667 % in 2020...

Scholaro Database

Droughts, cyclones and floods have forced the people of Madagascar, a poor country in the southern Indian Ocean, to find new homes, new livelihoods and even new diets.