Country
Countries

Madagascar

  • Population29611714
  • CapitalAntananarivo
  • Per Capita Income (%)1720
  • Regional organisationCOMESA, SADC

IV. Summary

In Madagascar some progress can be seen for stunting but at the current rate it will not be enough to reach the target. Anaemia, both for children and women, stalled at high levels. Safe access to water and sanitation improved but are still at very low level. School completion by girls furtger decreased, to 5%. All in all, malnutrition indicators point to an estimated GDP loss of 12.8%.

V. Resources

The Cost of Hunger, Madagascar report (2016).

What are the social and economic costs of child undernutrition?

Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN), Madagascar

Country page and profile (2021)

Global Action Plan on Child Wasting

Dashboard with indicators for Madagascar on regional level