Andrianampoinimerina is op [[6 Julie]] [[1810]] op 65-jarige ouderdom dood in die [[Rova van Antananarivo]]. Hy het 11 seuns en 13 dogters by sy baie vroue gehad.<ref name="Ark">{{Citecite web |last=Buyers |first=Christopher |title=Royal Ark: the Merina (or Hova) dynasty |url=http://www.royalark.net/Madagascar/imerina9.htm | accessdate access-date=3 Februarie 2011|archiveurl|language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2011010701190220191003212147/http://www.royalark.net:80/Madagascar/imerina9.htm | archivedatearchive-date=3 7Oktober Januarie 20112019 |url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Hy is deur sy 18-jarige seun, [[Radama I]], opgevolg.<ref>{{Cite book | last = Ade Ajayi | first = Jacob F. | title = General history of Africa: Africa in the nineteenth century until the 1880s | publisher = UNESCO | location = Paris | year = 1998 |isbn = 9780520067011 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=VC7kKcXdDhkC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false| ref = harv}}</ref> Om ’n vroeëre belofte na te kom dat die kind van sy seun Radama eendag monarg sou word, het hy sy oudste seun, Ramavolahy, laat doodmaak om enige mededinging om die troon te voorkom.<ref>{{cite book | last = Campbell| first = Gwyn | title = David Griffiths and the Missionary "History of Madagascar" | publisher = Brill | location = Leiden, Nederland | year = 2012 | isbn = 978-90-04-20980-0 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=7pDNL4apVpgC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false | ref = harv }}</ref>
