partners—France, FRG, UK, other EC, US
_#_External debt: $3.6 billion (1989)
_#_Industrial production: growth rate 5.2% (1990 est.); accounts for 16% of GDP
_#_Electricity: 119,000 kW capacity; 430 million kWh produced, 40 kWh per capita (1989)
_#_Industries: agricultural processing (meat canneries, soap factories, breweries, tanneries, sugar refining plants), light consumer goods industries (textiles, glassware), cement, automobile assembly plant, paper, petroleum
_#_Agriculture: accounts for 40% of GDP; cash crops—coffee, vanilla, sugarcane, cloves, cocoa; food crops—rice, cassava, beans, bananas, peanuts; cattle raising widespread; almost self-sufficient in rice
_#_Illicit drugs: illicit producer of cannabis (cultivated and wild varieties) used mostly for domestic consumption
_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $136 million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-88), $2.9 billion; Communist countries (1970-89), $491 million
_#_Currency: Malagasy franc (plural—francs); 1 Malagasy franc (FMG) = 100 centimes
_#_Exchange rates: Malagasy francs (FMG) per US$1—1,454.6 (December 1990), 1,494.1 (1990), 1,603.4 (1989), 1,407.1 (1988), 1,069.2 (1987), 676.3 (1986), 662.5 (1985)