Madagascar has relatively high poverty levels, with 52 per cent of the urban population living below the poverty line (Table 4.5). In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 31.4 per cent of the population was unemployed in 2008. 41 In Malawi, around 24 per cent of Blantyre’s population live in poverty. 42 Inequality in the sub-region’s cities is generally high and in 2003, Addis Ababa had an income Gini coefficient of 0.61 and a consumption Gini coefficient of 0.56 (Table 4.6). Surveys on 17 towns around Lake Victoria found that inequalities in these towns resembled those of capital cities, indicating that poverty is largely spread evenly throughout the urban domain. 43 This suggests that poverty and inequality levels are largely comparable in Eastern African cities.