Mauritius
population: Natl estimate (31 Dec 2025) · indicators as of 2026-09-05 · 2 metros tracked
🗺️ Geography2 metros
Mauritius metro footprint, shaded by composite tier.
Hover for rank, click to open the metro page. Boundaries derived from Overture Maps administrative divisions; metros without source coverage are omitted.
🏙️ 2 tracked metros
| Metro | State | Tier | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #418 | Port Louis★ Capital | Pamplemousses | 344K | 6.1 | Established Metro |
| #3052 | Curepipe▲ Largest | Plaines Wilhems | 366K | 0.1 | Local Metro |
🗂️ Districts
12 entries listed under Mauritius. Click any to see its metros and footprint.
📋 At a glance
- Official languages
- French, English
- Currency
- Mauritian rupee (MUR)
- Government
- Parliamentary republic
- Legislature
- National Assembly of Mauritius
- Constitution
- 1968, 22 amendment events since
- Demonym
- Mauritian
- Time zone
- UTC+04:00
- Driving side
- Left
- Calling code
- +230
- Internet TLD
- .mu
- ISO 3166
- MU
- Established
- 1968
- Highest point
- Piton de la Petite Rivière Noire (828 m (2,717 ft))
- National anthem
- Motherland
Facts via Wikidata.
💹 Economy and developmentUpper middle income
Ranks are among sovereign countries with data; ★ marks a top-5% finish. Sources: World Bank Open Data and Our World in Data (UNDP, UN WPP, V-Dem, Global Carbon Budget, Ember, Energy Institute; CC BY 4.0). Each card credits its originating body. Renewable share is of electricity generation, not of primary energy. Each figure is the most recent year available.
Alliances & Organisations4 full memberships
Full memberDashed border = Candidate / ApplicantItalic = Dialogue / Observer
🏛️ Leadership History18 leaders · click to expand
marks a leader associated with atrocities or defiance of law, systemic subversion of democratic institutions, or a criminal conviction. Convictions arising from political persecution, and annulled convictions, are excluded. denotes a monarch. These are editorial designations, applied per entry rather than derived automatically.
Dharam Gokhool✦ Current
2024–PresentPresident
Navin Ramgoolam✦ Current
2024–PresentPrime Minister
Prithvirajsing Roopun
2019–2024President
Paramasivum Pillay Vyapoory
2018–2019President
Pravind Jugnauth
2017–2024Prime Minister
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim
2015–2018President
Anerood Jugnauth
2014–2017Prime Minister
Kailash Purryag
2012–2015President
Navin Ramgoolam
2005–2014Prime Minister
Anerood Jugnauth
2003–2012President
Paul Bérenger
2003–2005Prime Minister
Karl Offmann
2002–2003President
Show all 18 leaders
Anerood Jugnauth
2000–2003Prime Minister
Navin Ramgoolam
1995–2000Prime Minister
Cassam Uteem
1992–2002President
France-Albert René
1992–1992President
Anerood Jugnauth
1982–1995Prime Minister
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam
1968–1982Prime Minister
| Name | Role | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Dharam Gokhool✦ Current | President | 2024–Present |
| Navin Ramgoolam✦ Current | Prime Minister | 2024–Present |
| Prithvirajsing Roopun | President | 2019–2024 |
| Paramasivum Pillay Vyapoory | President | 2018–2019 |
| Pravind Jugnauth | Prime Minister | 2017–2024 |
| Ameenah Gurib-Fakim | President | 2015–2018 |
| Anerood Jugnauth | Prime Minister | 2014–2017 |
| Kailash Purryag | President | 2012–2015 |
| Navin Ramgoolam | Prime Minister | 2005–2014 |
| Anerood Jugnauth | President | 2003–2012 |
| Paul Bérenger | Prime Minister | 2003–2005 |
| Karl Offmann | President | 2002–2003 |
| Anerood Jugnauth | Prime Minister | 2000–2003 |
| Navin Ramgoolam | Prime Minister | 1995–2000 |
| Cassam Uteem | President | 1992–2002 |
| France-Albert René | President | 1992–1992 |
| Anerood Jugnauth | Prime Minister | 1982–1995 |
| Seewoosagur Ramgoolam | Prime Minister | 1968–1982 |
📈 Power over timeThe Power Atlas →
The powerline is the headline share of world power, running from the state’s first ranked year (benchmark estimates with wide error bars before 1816). Latent power is material mass a state could mobilise (population, manpower, heavy industry). Recognised power is what the system actually treats it as (military spending, productive economy, reach, and status such as a Security Council seat or nuclear arsenal). When latent runs above recognised, a power is rising or under-rated; when recognised runs higher, it is punching above its weight or coasting on prestige. Material sub-indices run 1816 through 2016.
👥 Population over time
Our World in Data population (CC BY): UN WPP 2024 from 1950, Gapminder v7 1800-1949, HYDE 3.3 earlier; today's borders. Figures above are as of 2023, the last year that is estimated rather than forecast. The dashed tail to 2026 is a UN WPP medium-variant projection. It is drawn because the line should reach the present, and drawn differently because it has not happened yet: no rank, peak or share on this page uses it. Before 1950 the series is reconstruction rather than contemporaneous statistics, which is worth knowing when a country’s peak sits back there. The current population shown elsewhere on this page comes from the workbook and is unchanged by this. Mauritius is past its peak, which is less unusual than it sounds: the two lines here can point in opposite directions, and for most of Europe and East Asia they now both point down.
👥 To 2100
The UN’s probabilistic projection for Mauritius: the median with its 80% and 95% bands, the UN’s own high, low and zero-migration scenarios beside it. Not this site’s model; the site reads it and says what it implies.
Tap or drag across the chart to read any year: the estimate to 2023, then the UN median, its bands and the scenarios.
What drives it
Births, deaths and net migration on the UN medium path, with fertility, life expectancy and median age, every decade from 1950.
Show all 16 decades
Source: United Nations, DESA, Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO. Estimates to 2023; projections 2024 to 2100, medium variant and probabilistic intervals. The UN revises every two years; this is the WPP 2024 revision.
🏆 National Teams
Mauritius on the international stage. Click a card for the full record.