Overview of Comoros

The Comoros, officially the Union of the Comoros, is an archipelagic country in the Indian Ocean. It shares maritime borders with Madagascar and Mayotte to the southeast, Tanzania to the northwest, Mozambique to the west, and the Seychelles to the northeast. Its capital and largest city is Moroni. The sovereign state consists of three major islands and numerous smaller islands, all in the volcanic Comoro Islands. Comoros was first settled by Austronesians subsequently followed by Bantu speakers from East Africa along with Arabs. It then became part of the French colonial empire during the 19th century, before its independence in 1975.

Economic Snapshots

Comoros is a Southern African group of islands at the northern mouth of the Mozambique channel, about two-thirds of the way between northern Madagascar and northern Mozambique. It has a coastline of about 340km and an estimated population of over 800,000 as at June 2020. Comoros is predominately a Muslim nation which comprises of 98% of Sunni Muslims. Other religion include Catholic, Jehovah’s Witness and Protestant which account for the remaining 2%.

The income level in Comoros is very low with a GDP of a little over $1billion in 2019. It has a GDP composition of 47.7%, 11.8% and 40.5%
for agriculture, industry and services respectively. Comoros is blessed with numerous agricultural products such as vanilla, cloves, ylang-ylang (perfume essence), coconuts, banana and cassava (manioc). This island nation speak Arabic, French and Shikomoro as their official language.