Exports:
$2.318 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Exports - commodities:
clothing and textiles, sugar, cut flowers, molasses

Exports - partners:
UK 32%, France 17%, US 9.7%, UAE 8.6%, Madagascar 5.7%, Italy 5.7%
(2005)

Imports:
$3.391 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Imports - commodities:
manufactured goods, capital equipment, foodstuffs, petroleum
products, chemicals

Imports - partners:
China 9.8%, South Africa 8.6%, France 7.6%, India 6.9%, Bahrain
5.2%, Finland 4.8%, Germany 4.1% (2005)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$1.358 billion (2006 est.)

Debt - external:
$2.834 billion (2006 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$42 million (1997)

Currency (code):
Mauritian rupee (MUR)

Currency code:
MUR

Exchange rates:
Mauritian rupees per US dollar - 31.4607 (2006), 29.496 (2005),
27.499 (2004), 27.902 (2003), 29.962 (2002)

Fiscal year:
1 July - 30 June

Communications Mauritius

Telephones - main lines in use:
359,000 (2005)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
713,300 (2005)

Telephone system:
general assessment: small system with good service
domestic: primarily microwave radio relay trunk system
international: country code - 230; satellite earth station - 1
Intelsat (Indian Ocean); new microwave link to Reunion; HF
radiotelephone links to several countries; fiber optic submarine
cable (SAT-3/WASC/SAFE) provides connectivity to Europe and Asia

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 4, FM 9, shortwave 0 (2002)

Radios:
420,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
2 (plus several repeaters) (1997)

Televisions:
258,000 (1997)

Internet country code:
.mu

Internet hosts:
4,997 (2006)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
2 (2000)

Internet users:
180,000 (2005)

Transportation Mauritius

Airports:
6 (2006)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 2
over 3,047 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 1 (2006)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 4
914 to 1,523 m: 3
under 914 m: 1 (2006)

Roadways:
total: 2,020 km
paved: 2,020 km (including 75 km of expressways) (2005)

Merchant marine:
total: 6 ships (1000 GRT or over) 22,386 GRT/23,214 DWT
by type: bulk carrier 2, passenger/cargo 2, refrigerated cargo 2
foreign-owned: 4 (India 2, Switzerland 2) (2006)

Ports and terminals:
Port Louis

Military Mauritius

Military branches:
no regular military forces; National Police Force, Special Mo