World Summary --- Madagascar

Summary information

Names
ISO3-Code	MDG
Continent`	Africa
Country Name	Madagascar
Administrative
Admin Level Used	3
Level1 Type	Province/Faritany
Level2 Type	Prefecture/Fivondronana
Level3 Type	Sous-Prefecture
Number of Units	1242
Population Estimates
Ref. Year First	1975
Ref. Year Last	1993
Pop '90 (estimated) ('000)	11,052
Pop '95 (estimated) ('000)	13,028
Pop '90 (UN) ('000)	11,632
Pop '95 (UN) ('000)	13,744
Difference '90	5.0 %
Difference '95	5.2 %
Spatial Estimates
Area (sq km)	587,040
Resolution (km)	22
PopPerUnit ('000)`	11
Resources
Web Site 1	http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/softproj/index.htm

Data sources Boundaries and 1993 population data by 3rd subnational level units from a database produced by the National Statistical Office and the Institut National de la Statistique et de la Recherche Economique, Tananarive,in collaboration with the UN Statistics Division's Software Development Project http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/softproj/index.htm. P90E and P95E derived using growth rates at the 2nd subnational level based on data for 1975 from Repoblika Demokratika Malagasy (1975), Recensement 1975, Serie etudes et analyse, Analyse de donnees demographiques, Institut National de la Statistique et de la Recherche Economique, Tananarive. The boundaries were reprojected to Latlong from Laborde using the USGS proj program

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