page_title: Demographics of Madagascar
section_title: Population
hierarchical_section_title: Demographics of Madagascar / Population
context_page_description: Madagascar's population is predominantly of mixed Austronesian and East African origin.
context_section_description: The problem with population estimation in Madagascar is that data is very old and limited.  The last population census was carried out in 1993, after an initial 1975 census.  There was an attempt at a census in 2009, but this attempt ultimately failed due to political instability.  Therefore, the demographic situation is inferred but reliability of any estimates from any source has a large margin of error.
  According to the 2019 revision of the World Population Prospects the total population was 26,262,313 in 2018, compared to only 4,084,000 in 1950. The proportion of children below the age of 15 in 2010 was 43.1%, 53.8% was between 15 and 65 years of age, while 3.1% was 65 years or older
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  Structure of the population (DHS 2013) (males 18,875, females 19,483, total 38,358):
caption: Demographics of Madagascar, Data of FAO, year 2005; number of inhabitants in thousands.
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