Exports: $170 million (f.o.b., 1997)
Exports—commodities: coffee 45%, vanilla 20%, cloves, shellfish,
sugar, petroleum products (1995 est.)
Exports—partners: France 31.7%, Japan 15.8%, Germany 6.4%,
Reunion 5.7% (1996)
Imports: $477 million (f.o.b., 1997)
Imports—commodities: intermediate manufactures 30%, capital goods
28%, petroleum 15%, consumer goods 14%, food 13% (1995 est.)
Imports—partners: France 31.0%, Iran 9.1%, South Africa 8.2%,
Japan 5.8%, US 5.0% (1996)
Debt—external: $4.4 billion (1996 est.)
Economic aid—recipient: $298.5 million (1995)
Currency: 1 Malagasy franc (FMG) = 100 centimes
Exchange rates: Malagasy francs (FMG) per US$1—5,468.5 (January 1999), 5,441.4 (1998), 5,090.9 (1997), 4,061.3 (1996), 4,265.6 (1995), 3,067.3 (1994)