ACOG - Mauritius  - IBM

Geography

Location: Southern Africa, island in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar

Area:
total area: 1,860 sq km
land area: 1,850 sq km
comparative area: slightly less than 10.5 times the size of Washington, DC

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 177 km


People

Population: 1,127,068 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 28% (female 152,892; male 158,891)
15-64 years: 66% (female 376,049; male 372,910)
65 years and over: 6% (female 39,088; male 27,238)

Population growth rate: 0.89% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 18.91 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 6.38 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: -3.64 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 17.8 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 70.84 years
male: 66.9 years
female: 74.95 years

Total fertility rate: 2.2 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Indo-Mauritian 68%, Creole 27%, Sino-Mauritian 3%, Franco-Mauritian2%

Religions: Hindu 52%, Christian 28.3% (Roman Catholic 26%, Protestant 2.3%), Muslim 16.6%, other 3.1%

Languages: English (official), Creole, French, Hindi, Urdu, Hakka, Bojpoori

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990)
total population: 80%
male: 85%
female: 75%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Republic of Mauritius
conventional short form: Mauritius

Type: parliamentary democracy

Capital: Port Louis

Independence: 12 March 1968 (from UK)

Constitution: 12 March 1968; amended 12 March 1992


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $9.3 billion

National product real growth rate: 4.7%

National product per capita: $8,600

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 9.4%

Unemployment rate: 2.4%

Electricity:
capacity: 340,000 kW
production: 920 million kWh
consumption per capita: 777 kWh



Olympic Factoid
The Mother Nature was kind to Olympic athletes and spectators. The average high temperature during the Games was 89 degrees with an average low of 72 degrees. Highest temperature registered (20 July) - 99 degrees. Lowest high temperature registered is 79 degrees (28 July).