ivated land area and accounts for 40% of export earnings. The
government's development strategy centers on industrialization (with
a view to modernization and to exports), agricultural
diversification, and tourism. Economic performance in 1991-93
continued strong with solid real growth and low unemployment.

GDP: purchasing power parity - $10.9 billion (1995 est.)

GDP real growth rate: 2.7% (1995 est.)

GDP per capita: $9,600 (1995 est.)

GDP composition by sector:
agriculture: NA%
industry: NA%
services: NA%

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 9.4% (1993 est.)

Labor force: 335,000
by occupation: government services 29%, agriculture and fishing 27%,
manufacturing 22%, other 22%

Unemployment rate: 2.4% (1991 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $653 million
expenditures: $567 million, including capital expenditures of $143
million (FY92/93 est.)

Industries: food processing (largely sugar milling), textiles,
wearing apparel, chemicals, metal products, transport equipment,
nonelectrical machinery, tourism

Industrial production growth rate: 5.8% (1992)

Electricity:
capacity: 340,000 kW
production: 920 million kWh
consumption per capita: 777 kWh (1993)

Agriculture: sugarcane, tea, corn, potatoes, bananas, pulses;
cattle, goats; fish

Illicit drugs: illicit producer of cannabis for the international
drug trade; heroin consumption and transshipment are growing problems

Exports: $1.3 billion (f.o.b., 1994)
commodities: textiles 44%, sugar 40%, light manufactures 10%
partners: EU and US have preferential treatment, EU 77%, US 15%

Imports: $1.9 billion (f.o.b., 1994)
commodities: manufactured goods 50%, capital equipment 17%,
foodstuffs 13%, petroleum products 8%, chemicals 7%
partners: EU, US, South Africa, Japan

External debt: $996.8 million (1993 est.)

Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $NA

Currency: 1 Mauritian rupee (MauR) = 100 cents

Exchange rates: Mauritian rupees (MauRs) per US$1 - 17.842
(January 1996), 17.386 (1995), 17.960 (1994), 17.648 (1993), 15.563
(1992), 15.652 (1991)

Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June

Transportation
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Railways: 0 km

Highways:
total: 1,831 km
paved: 1,703 km (including 29 km of expressways)
unpaved: 128 km (1991 est.)

Ports: Port Louis

Merchant marine:
total: 17 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 221,446 GRT/308,478 DWT
ships by type: bulk 1, cargo 9, container 4, liquefie