Agriculture - products: coffee, vanilla, sugarcane, cloves, cocoa, rice, cassava (tapioca), beans, bananas, peanuts; livestock products
Exports: $680 million (f.o.b., 2000)
Exports - commodities: coffee, vanilla, shellfish, sugar; cotton cloth, chromite, petroleum products
Exports - partners: France 41%, US 21%, Germany 7%, Japan 4%, UK 1% (2000)
Imports: $919 million (f.o.b., 2000)
Imports - commodities: intermediate manufactures, capital goods, petroleum, consumer goods, food
Imports - partners: France 38%, Hong Kong 10%, China 5%, Singapore 5%,
Japan 3%
Debt - external: $4.5 billion (2000)
Economic aid - recipient: $838 million (1997)
Currency: Malagasy franc (MGF)