Madagascar is the world's fourth-largest island. Over 90% of its wildlife exists nowhere else on Earth, including lemurs and baobab trees.
Malagasy, French
These figures are calculated from the data on this page and compared with the other 195 countries Beelad covers.
| Population density | 53 people per km² rank 132 of 196 (highest first); the average across all 196 countries is 60 per km² |
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| Share of world population | 0.386 % world total: 8,091,734,930 (UN, 1 July 2023) |
| Share of Africa | 2.1% of its people, 2.0% of its land area |
| Area in square miles | 226,658 1 km² = 0.386 sq mi |
| Closest in size | Botswana (581,730 km²) |
| Closest in population | Ivory Coast (31,165,654 people) |
Madagascar is the only country in our list that uses MGA.