Mauritius GDP Data & Country Report

Mauritius Country Report: GDP data and GDP forecasts; economic, financial and trade information; the best banks in Mauritius; country and population overview

DATA ON GDP AND ECONOMIC INFORMATION

Central bank

Bank of Mauritius

International Reserves

US$ 2.619 billion (Source: World Bank; Data updated: November 2010)

Gross Domestic Product - GDP

US$ 10.299 billion (2010 estimate)

GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)

19.008 billion of International dollars (2010 estimate)

Real GDP growth

2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
7.2%	2.6%	1.9%	4.3%	5.5%	1.5%	3.9%	5.4%
2008	2009	2010	2011*
5%	3%	4%	4.1%

*Estimate

GDP per capita - current prices

US$ 7,990 (2010 estimate)

GDP per capita - PPP

$14,746 International Dollars (2010 estimate)

GDP (PPP) - share of world total

1980	1990	2000	2010	2015**
0.02%	0.02%	0.02%	0.02%	0.02%

**Forecast

GDP - composition by sector

agriculture: 4.4%
industry: 23.8%
services: 71.8% (2011 estimate)

(Data released on February 2012)

Gross domestic expenditure on R&D (% of GDP)

N/A

(Data released on November 2010)

Inflation

2008	2009	2010	2011*
9.7%(2008)	2.5%	2.9%	7.4%

*Estimate

Unemployment rate

2008	2009	2010	2011*
7.2%	7.3%	7.5%(2009)	7.8%

*Estimate

Household saving rates

N/A

(Data released on November 2010)

Public debt (General government gross debt as a % of GDP)

2007	2008	2009	2010	2011*
49%	45.6%	47.8%	50.5%	51.4%

*Estimate

Public deficit (General government net lending/borrowing as a % of GDP)

2007	2008	2009	2010*	2011**
0.1%	3.5%	-3.4%	-4.1%	-4.8%

*Estimate **Forecast

Government bond ratings

Standard & Poor's: N/A

Moody's rating: Baa2

Moody's outlook: STA

(Foreign Currency Government Bond Ratings; Data last updated Nov 2010)

Market value of publicly traded shares

2007	2008	2009
US$5.666 billion	US$3.443 billion	US$4.74 billion

Largest companies in Mauritius

N/A

DATA ON TRADE AND COMPETITIVENESS

Current account balance

US$ -1.2 billion (2010 estimate)(After 2008)

Current account balance by percentage of GDP

-11.6% of GDP (2010 estimate)(2009)

Exports as percent of GDP

(Exports of goods and services)

51.8% (2009)

(Data released on December 2010)

Shares in world total merchandising export

0.01%(2007)

(Data were released in Nov 2011 and refer to 2010)

Shares in world total commercial services export

0.07%(2007)

(Data were released in Nov 2011 and refer to 2010)

Total exports

US$2.041 billion f.o.b. (2010 estimate)

Export commodities

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

Total imports

US$4.503 billion f.o.b. (2008 estimate)

Import commodities

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

Exports - major partners

UK 35.1%, France 14.4%, US 7.7%, Madagascar 6.3%, Italy 5.8% (2007)

Imports - major partners

India 21.2%, China 11.4%, France 10.7%, South Africa 7.4% (2007)

FDI inflows

2008	2009	2010
US$383 million	US$257 million(2009)	US$430 million(2009)

FDI outflows

2008	2009	2010
US$52 million	US$37 million	US$129 million

Value of cross-border M&A, by country of purchaser

2008	2009	2010	2011
US$206 million	US$191 million(2009)	US$-50 million(2009)	N/A

Cross-border M&A deals worth over $3 billion completed in 2008

(Acquiring company, Acquired company, Country of the acquired company, Value of the deal)

N/A

(for a monthly update on M&A click here )

Cross-border M&A deals worth over $3 billion completed in 2010

(Acquiring company, Acquired company, Country of the acquired company, Value of the deal)

N/A(2008 estimate)

(for a monthly update on M&A click here )

Best countries for doing business

World Bank/IFC Doing Business Project

(Economies are ranked on their ease of doing business, from 1 – 183. A high ranking means the regulatory environment is more conducive to the starting and operation of a local firm.)

Overall ranking: 20 out of 183 countries(2009) (2010)

Subcategories:

Starting a business: 12 out of 183 countries(2009)

Registering property: 69 out of 183 countries

Paying Taxes: 12 out of 183 countries

Getting credit: 89 out of 183 countries

Protecting investors: 12 out of 183 countries

Trading across border: 22 out of 183 countries

Enforcing Contracts: 61 out of 183 countries

(2010)

Global competitiveness ranking
(ranking by country on a basis of 142, the first is the best)

(2011/2012)

Index of Economic Freedom

WSJ and Heritage Foundation

Ranking: 12 Score: 76.2 (Mostly Free) (2009)

(100=totally free 0=totally repressed )

COUNTRY AND POPULATION OVERVIEW

Time zone

UTC+4

Total area

2,040 km² (2006)

Capital

Port Louis (2009)

Currency

Mauritian rupees (MUR) (2009)

Government type

parliamentary democracy (2009)

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)

Religions

Hindu 48%, Roman Catholic 23.6%, Muslim 16.6%, other Christian 8.6%, other 2.5%, unspecified 0.3%, none 0.4% (2000 census)

Total population

1980	1990	2000	2010*	2015**
0.97 million	1.06 million	1.19 million	1.29 million	1.34 million

*Estimate **Forecast

Urban population as % of total population

1960	1980	2000	2009
33.2%	42.4%	42.7%	42.5%

Population median age

31.0 years (2006)

Population growth rate

0.5% (2009)

Life expectancy

73 years (2007)

Adult literacy

87% (2000/2007)

% of population living on less than $2 a day

N/A

Inequality of wealth distribution (Gini index)

N/A

(0=perfect equality, 100=absolute inequality)

Freedom House rating

Political Rights:1
Civil Liberties:2 (2010)

(1 represents the most free, 7 the least free)

Total telephone subscribers as % of population

121.51% (2010)

(sum of fixed telephone lines and mobile cellular subscribers)

Internet users as % of total population

24.9% (Data were released in 2011 and refer to 2010)

Cost of living index

(ranking by city on a basis of 214; the 1st is the most expensive and the 214th is the least expensive)

Port Louis: 107th (2011)

CO2 emissions
(Metric tons of CO2 per capita)

3.0888 (2008)

GLOBAL FINANCE RANKINGS AND AWARDS

WORLD'S BEST EMERGING MARKET BANKS

2012:

COUNTRY WINNERS Mauritius Commercial Bank (National, 2012)

2011:

COUNTRY WINNERS Mauritius Commerical Bank (National, 2011)

2010:

COUNTRY WINNERS Mauritius Commerical Bank (National, 2010)

2009:

COUNTRY WINNERS Mauritius Commerical Bank (National, 2009)

ARTICLES AND COUNTRIES REPORTS FROM GLOBAL FINANCE ARCHIVE

Mauritius GDP Data & Country Report | Global Finance

WORLD'S BEST EMERGING MARKET BANKS

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