Mauritius Economy - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

GDP: $1.0 billion (1984/85 prov.) $1,000 per capita; real growth rate, 4.2% (1984/85 prov.)

Agriculture: sugar crop is a major economic asset; over 90% of cultivated land area is planted in sugar; also sugar derivatives, tea, tobacco; most food imported

Shortage: land

Major industries: mainly food manufacturing (largely sugar milling); textiles and wearing apparel; chemical and chemical products; and metal products, transport equipment, and nonelectrical machinery

Electric power. 237,000 kW capacity (1985); 416 million kWh produced (1985), 411 kWh per capita

Exports: $387.8 million (merchandise, f.o.b., 1984/85 prov.); sugar (48%); Export Processing Zone exports

Imports: $406 million (f.o.b., 1984/85); food, petroleum products manufactured goods

Major trade partners: all EC countries and US have preferential treatment, UK buys almost all of Mauritius’s sugar export at subsidized prices; small amount of sugar exported to Canada, US, and Italy; nonoil imports from UK and EC primarily, also from South Africa, Australia, US, and Japan; some minor trade with China

Budget: central government—(1984/85 prov.) revenues, $217 million; external grants, $10 million; current expenditures, $247 million, capital expenditures, $40 million

Monetary conversion rate-14.557 Mauritian rupees=US$l (31 October 1985)

Fiscal year: 1 July-30 June

NOTE: The information regarding Mauritius on this page is re-published from the 1986 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Mauritius 1986 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Mauritius 1986 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.