Madagascar
Republic of Madagascar
- Capital
- Antananarivo
- Region
- Eastern Africa
- Population, 2025
- 33 million
- Currency
- MGA
- Area
- 587,041 km²
Across Madagascar's 4 priced cities, one person needs about $728 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $135.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
- Purchasing power25%16
- Safety20%No data
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%88
- Connectivity10%10
- Cost10%89
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 20%
- SourcePwC
- Corporate tax
- 20%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 20%
- SourcePwC
- Capital gains, individuals
- 20%
- SourcePwC
- Social security, employee
- 2%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 19%
- SourceTrading Economics
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- —
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- —
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people
- —
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #134 worldwide
- 28
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- —
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- −12%
Cities in Madagascar
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Antsirabe | 73 | 24.3 | — | — | — | 260.9K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 2Toliara | 71 | — | — | — | — | 178.7K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 3Fianarantsoa | 67 | — | — | — | — | 203.1K | Low confidence |
| 4Antsiranana | 67 | — | — | — | — | 137K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 5Toamasina | 64 | — | $138 | $138 | — | 345.1K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 6Mahajanga | 64 | — | $348 | — | — | 260.6K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 7Antananarivo | 45 | 26.4 | $332 | $135 | 21.1 | 1.3M | Medium confidence, 14 contributors |
| 8Antalaha | — | — | — | — | — | 71.9K | Low confidence |
| 9Ambatondrazaka | — | — | — | — | — | 50.5K | Low confidence |
| 10Maroantsetra | — | — | — | — | — | 45K | Low confidence |
| 11Ambositra | — | 25.8 | — | — | — | 43.5K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 12Ambatolampy | — | 24.9 | — | — | — | 34.2K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 13Marolambo | — | — | — | — | — | 26.2K | Low confidence |