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Madagascar

32,740,678

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+775.72K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+98.2%from 16.52M
Life expectancy63.8 years2024
Fertility rate3.91births per woman · 2024
Urban population32.9%2025
RegionSub-Saharan Africa Low income

A country at every age

How Madagascar is shaped by age.

A younger population means schools, jobs, and future families will shape the decades ahead.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1438.9%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6457.6%Working-age population
Ages 65+3.5%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate31.7births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate7.5deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+24.2births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-2.23Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Madagascar look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 53.19M in 2050—66.4% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202431.96M
  2. 205053.19M
  3. 210085.34M
Median age in 205024.2years
Births in 20501.22Mduring the year
Deaths in 2050376.12Kduring the year
Life expectancy68.3years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19605.11M
  2. 19706.67M
  3. 19809.01M
  4. 199012.06M
  5. 200016.52M
  6. 201022.18M
  7. 202028.95M
  8. 202532.74M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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