Mauritius/

Since independence in 1968, Mauritius has developed from a low-income, agriculturally based economy to a middle-income diversified economy with growing industrial, financial, and tourist sectors. For most of the period, annual growth has been in the order of 5% to 6%. This remarkable achievement has been reflected in more equitable income distribution, increased life expectancy, lowered infant mortality, and a much-improved infrastructure. The economy rests on sugar, tourism, textiles and apparel, and financial services, and is expanding into fish processing, information and communications technology, and hospitality and property development. Sugarcane is grown on about 90% of the cultivated land area and accounts for 15% of export earnings. The government’s development strategy centers on creating vertical and horizontal clusters of development in these sectors. Mauritius has attracted more than 32,000 offshore entities, many aimed at commerce in India, South Africa, and China. Investment in the banking sector alone has reached over $1 billion. Mauritius, with its strong textile sector, has been well poised to take advantage of the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). Mauritius’ sound economic policies and prudent banking practices helped to mitigate negative effects from the global financial crisis in 2008-09. GDP grew 3.6% in 2010 and the country continues to expand its trade and investment outreach around the globe.

$17.49 billion (2010 est.)

$16.88 billion (2009 est.)

$16.37 billion (2008 est.)

$9.427 billion (2010 est.)

3.6% (2010 est.)

3.1% (2009 est.)

5.1% (2008 est.)

$13,500 (2010 est.)

$13,100 (2009 est.)

$12,800 (2008 est.)

597,000 (2010 est.)

7.5% (2010 est.)

7.3% (2009 est.)

8% (2006 est.)

39 (2006 est.)

37 (1987 est.)

23.8% of GDP (2010 est.)

60.5% of GDP (2010 est.)

62.4% of GDP (2009 est.)

2.9% (2010 est.)

2.5% (2009 est.)

NA% (31 December 2009)

19.25% (31 December 2009 est.)

21.54% (31 December 2008 est.)

$1.889 billion (31 December 2010 est)

$1.906 billion (31 December 2009 est)

$9.605 billion (31 December 2010 est.)

$9.277 billion (31 December 2009 est.)

$10.23 billion (31 December 2010 est.)

$9.423 billion (31 December 2009 est.)

$4.74 billion (31 December 2009)

$3.443 billion (31 December 2008)

$5.666 billion (31 December 2007)

sugarcane, tea, corn, potatoes, bananas, pulses; cattle, goats; fish

food processing (largely sugar milling), textiles, clothing, mining, chemicals, metal products, transport equipment, nonelectrical machinery, tourism

3.3% (2010 est.)

2.321 billion kWh (2007 est.)

2.158 billion kWh (2007 est.)

0 kWh (2008 est.)

0 kWh (2008 est.)

0 bbl/day (2009 est.)

23,000 bbl/day (2009 est.)

0 bbl/day (2007 est.)

22,200 bbl/day (2007 est.)

0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)

0 cu m (2008 est.)

0 cu m (2008 est.)

0 cu m (2008 est.)

0 cu m (2008 est.)

0 cu m (1 January 2010 est.)

-$949 million (2010 est.)

-$674.6 million (2009 est.)

$2.041 billion (2010 est.)

$1.942 billion (2009 est.)

clothing and textiles, sugar, cut flowers, molasses, fish

UK 25.55%, France 16.89%, US 9.51%, Italy 5.68%, UAE 5.47%, Belgium 4.93%, Madagascar 4.11% (2009)

$3.935 billion (2010 est.)

$3.499 billion (2009 est.)

manufactured goods, capital equipment, foodstuffs, petroleum products, chemicals

India 24.5%, France 14.02%, South Africa 8.55%, China 8.17% (2009)

$2.36 billion (31 December 2010 est.)

$2.304 billion (31 December 2009 est.)

$5.043 billion (31 December 2010 est.)

$4.474 billion (31 December 2009 est.)

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Mauritian rupees (MUR) per US dollar - 30.991 (2010), 31.96 (2009), 27.973 (2008), 31.798 (2007), 31.656 (2006)