Agriculture - products: coffee, vanilla, sugarcane, cloves, cocoa, rice, cassava (tapioca), beans, bananas, peanuts; livestock products
Exports: $600 million (f.o.b., 1998 est.)
Exports - commodities: coffee 45%, vanilla 20%, cloves, shellfish, sugar, petroleum products (1995 est.)
Exports - partners: France 40%, US 9%, Germany 8%, Japan 6%, UK 6% (1997)
Imports: $881 million (c.i.f., 1998 est.)
Imports - commodities: intermediate manufactures 30%, capital goods 28%, petroleum 15%, consumer goods 14%, food 13% (1995 est.)
Imports - partners: France 39%, Hong Kong 5%, Japan 5%, China,
Singapore (1997)
Debt - external: $4.1 billion (1997 est.)
Economic aid - recipient: $838 million (1997)
Currency: 1 Malagasy franc (FMG) = 100 centimes