Area: total: 2,040 sq km
Natural resources: arable land, fish
Population: 1,274,189 [July 2008 est.]
Ethnic groups: Indo-Mauritian 68%, Creole 27%, Sino-Mauritian 3%, Franco-Mauritian 2%
Languages: Creole 80.5%, Bhojpuri 12.1%, French 3.4%, English [official spoken by less than 1% of the population], other 3.7%, unspecified 0.3% [2000 census]
Capital: name: Port Louis
geographic coordinates: 20 09 S, 57 29 E
time difference: UTC+4 [9 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time]
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 4.8%
industry: 25%
services: 70.1% [2007 est.]
Labor force: 574,000 [2007 est.]
Budget: revenues: $1.331 billion
expenditures: $1.632 billion including capital expenditures of [2007 est.]
Agriculture - products: sugarcane, tea, corn, potatoes, bananas, pulses cattle, goats fish
Industries: food processing [largely sugar milling], textiles, clothing, mining, chemicals, metal products, transport equipment, nonelectrical machinery, tourism
Exports: $2.218 billion f.o.b. [2007 est.]
Exports - commodities: clothing and textiles, sugar, cut flowers, molasses, fish
Exports - partners: UK 32.5%, France 15.1%, UAE 11.4%, US 8.3%, Madagascar 4.8% [2006]
Imports: $3.628 billion f.o.b. [2007 est.]
Imports - commodities: manufactured goods, capital equipment, foodstuffs, petroleum products, chemicals
Imports - partners: France 14.3%, India 13.6%, China 8.6%, South Africa 7.3% [2006]
Currency (code): Mauritian rupee [MUR]
Airports: 5 [2007]
Ports and terminals: Port Louis