MUR

$NA

Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:

$NA

Market value of publicly traded shares:

$5.7 billion (2007)

Currency (code):

Mauritian rupee (MUR)

Currency code:

Exchange rates:

Mauritian rupees (MUR) per US dollar - 31.798 (2007), 31.656 (2006), 29.496 (2005), 27.499 (2004), 27.902 (2003)

Communications
Mauritius

Telephones - main lines in use:

357,300 (2006)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

936,000 (2007)

Telephone system:

general assessment: small system with good service domestic: monopoly over fixed-line services terminated in 2005; fixed-line teledensity roughly 30 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular services launched in 1989 with teledensity in 2007 reaching 75 per 100 persons international: country code - 230; landing point for the SAFE submarine cable that provides links to Asia and South Africa where it connects to the SAT-3/WASC submarine cable that provides further links to parts of East Africa, and Europe; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean); new microwave link to Reunion; HF radiotelephone links to several countries

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 4, FM 9, shortwave 0 (2001)

Radios:

420,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

2 (plus several repeaters) (1997)

Televisions:

258,000 (1997)

Internet country code:

.mu

Internet hosts:

9,609 (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

2 (2000)

Internet users:

340,000 (2007)

Transportation
Mauritius

Airports:

5 (2007)

Airports - with paved runways:

total: 2 over 3,047 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 1 (2007)

Airports - with unpaved runways:

total: 3 914 to 1,523 m: 2 under 914 m: 1 (2007)

Roadways:

total: 2,028 km paved: 2,028 km (includes 75 km of expressways) (2007)

Merchant marine:

total: 3 by type: passenger/cargo 2, refrigerated cargo 1 (2008)

Ports and terminals:

Port Louis

Military
Mauritius

Military branches:

no regular military forces; National Police Force, Special Mobile Force, National Coast Guard (2008)

Manpower available for military service:

males age 16-49: 341,018 (2008 est.)

Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:

male: 11,089 female: 10,843 (2008 est.)

Military expenditures:

0.3% of GDP (2006 est.)

Transnational Issues
Mauritius

Disputes - international:

Mauritius claims the Chagos Archipelago (UK-administered British Indian Ocean Territory), and its former inhabitants, who reside chiefly in Mauritius; claims French-administered Tromelin Island

Illicit drugs:

consumer and transshipment point for heroin from South Asia; small amounts of cannabis produced and consumed locally; significant offshore financial industry creates potential for money laundering, but corruption levels are relatively low and the government appears generally to be committed to regulating its banking industry

This page was last updated on 18 December, 2008

@Mayotte

Introduction
Mayotte

Background:

Mayotte was ceded to France along with the other islands of the Comoros group in 1843. It was the only island in the archipelago that voted in 1974 to retain its link with France and forego independence.

Geography
Mayotte

Location:

Southern Indian Ocean, island in the Mozambique Channel, about half way between northern Madagascar and northern Mozambique

Geographic coordinates: