Africa · Eastern Africa
Capital: Port Louis
Mauritius
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Country Blitz power profile
Overall rank #149
Mauritius's Country Blitz power profile compares population, GDP, military expenditure, research-and-development spending, and manufacturing output across every playable country. A lower numerical rank represents a stronger position in that category.
Population
1.2M
#157 of 196
20th percentile
2025 · World Bank WDI / UN population sources
View data source ↗GDP (Nominal)
$16.16B
#142 of 196
28th percentile
2025 · World Bank WDI
View data source ↗Military Expenditure
$23.0M
#159 of 196
19th percentile
2024 · SIPRI via World Bank WDI
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$39.1M
#107 of 196
46th percentile
2024 · UNESCO UIS and World Bank WDI
View data source ↗Manufacturing Output
$1.82B
#122 of 196
38th percentile
2025 · World Bank WDI
View data source ↗Quick facts
- Capital
- Port Louis
- Region
- Africa
- Subregion
- Eastern Africa
- Country code
- MUS
- Neighbors
- No land neighbors
Three interesting facts
Mauritius has no land borders, so every international boundary is maritime.
Mauritius packs a relatively large population into a small area, giving it one of the factbook’s higher population densities.
Mauritius’s position in Eastern Africa places it within a distinctive network of regional trade routes and migration paths.
Geography
Mauritius on the map
Mauritius is located in Southern Africa, island in the Indian Ocean, about 800 km (500 mi) east of Madagascar. Its terrain is small coastal plain rising to discontinuous mountains encircling central plateau. The climate is tropical, modified by southeast trade winds, warm, dry winter (May to November), hot, wet, humid summer (November to May). In area, the country is almost 11 times the size of Washington, DC.
Economy
Economic profile
Mauritius' economy is characterized by upper middle-income Indian Ocean island economy, diversified portfolio, investing in maritime security, strong tourism sector decimated by COVID-19, expanding in information and financial services, environmentally fragile. Major industries include food processing (largely sugar milling), textiles, clothing, mining, chemicals, metal products, transport equipment, nonelectrical machinery, tourism. Important agricultural products include sugarcane, chicken, pumpkins/squash, tomatoes, eggs, potatoes, cabbages, bananas, onions, cucumbers/gherkins (2023). Notable exports include fish, garments, raw sugar, fertilizers, diamonds (2023).
Demographics
People and population
Mauritius has an estimated population of 1,243,741. Languages spoken include Creole 86.5%, Bhojpuri 5.3%, French 4.1%, two languages 1.4%, other 2.6% (includes English, one of the two official languages of the National Assembly, which is spoken by less than 1% of the population), unspecified 0.1% (2011 est.). The population includes Indo-Mauritian (compose approximately two thirds of the total population), Creole, Sino-Mauritian, Franco-Mauritian. The urban population represents 40.9% of total population (2023).
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