GDP per capita: $406
9.2% inflation
43.5% of population under 14
growth rate: 3%
unemployment rate: 5.9%
coastline: 4,828 km
graphite, 
chromite
coal
salt
quartz
hydropower
fish
39.6% have access to drinking water
Droughts, periodic cyclone
Slash & Burn, deforestation
Very high risk of infectious diseases
50% of population is below poverty line
Little access to drinking water
$1.1 a day
Natural Factors
4th biggest island in the world
tropical region
Human Factors
Life expectancy: 62 years
bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever due to unsanitary water
Literacy rate: 68.9%
29 physicians per 100,000 persons
Economic factors
Political and institutional factors 
single ruler for 17 years until 1997
Mini-revolution in 2009
'kicked out' of the African Nations
provisory government
Proposal
12,000,000 people without access to water
Water treatment plants
UV Water Works
$600 per plant, which allows 1000 people
 to have access to water
12,000 plants needed = $7,200,000
+ Workers:12,000 x $406 = $4,872,000
+ installation and repair = $200,000
= $12,272,000
20L/per day/per family
$0.01/20L 
Per Year: $742.8
With interest, each plant will be repaid in less than 2 years. 
Madagascar
Capital:Antananarivo
20,000,000 people
Each plant is owned by a local entrepreneur