Purchasing Power Parity · Madagascar
Cost of living in 🇲🇬 Madagascar vs the United States
Madagascar has a US-relative price level of 0.296 (US = 1.0) — about 70% cheaper than the United States. Reference year 2025.
What US salaries are worth in Madagascar
| US income | Feels like (US-equivalent) | Cost of a US lifestyle |
|---|---|---|
| $50,000 | $168,919 | $14,800 |
| $80,000 | $270,270 | $23,680 |
| $120,000 | $405,405 | $35,520 |
| $180,000 | $608,108 | $53,280 |
| $250,000 | $844,595 | $74,000 |
“Feels like” = income ÷ price level; “cost of a US lifestyle” = income × price level. Try your own number in the interactive calculator.
How the sources compare
Each provider measures Madagascar's price level slightly differently; a tight spread means high confidence.
Consensus (median) 0.296 2025
World Bank — GDP 0.307 2025
IMF (WEO) 0.306 2025
Penn World Table 0.286 2023
World Bank — Consumption 0.290 2025
Cost of living around the world
Every country shaded by its price level relative to the US (darker = more expensive). Madagascar is outlined.
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Countries with a similar cost of living
- 🇹🇿 Tanzania — price level 0.297
- 🇹🇭 Thailand — price level 0.295
- 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan — price level 0.298
- 🇹🇳 Tunisia — price level 0.293
- 🇻🇳 Vietnam — price level 0.292
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Frequently asked questions
- How expensive is Madagascar compared to the United States?
- Madagascar has a price level of 0.296 relative to the US baseline of 1.0 (about 70% cheaper than the United States), based on the median of independent votes from the World Bank/IMF (one vote — both use the official exchange rate), the Eurostat-OECD PPP programme and the Penn World Table, reference year 2025.
- What is a $100,000 salary worth in Madagascar?
- In purchasing-power terms, $100,000 stretches to about $337,838 of US-equivalent lifestyle in Madagascar; conversely, sustaining a $100,000 US lifestyle there costs about $29,600.
- Where does the Madagascar cost-of-living data come from?
- Real price-level figures from the World Bank, IMF World Economic Outlook, OECD, Eurostat and Penn World Table, blended as a per-country median of independent votes and refreshed at build time.