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Capital:
Port Louis
Government:
Parliamentary Democracy
Current Head of Government:
Pritivirajsing Roopun
Economy:
- Mainstays of the economy remain sugar, tourism, textiles, apparel and financial services with expansion into fish processing, information and communications technology and hospitality and property development.
- Sugarcane is grown on about 90% of the cultivated land area and accounts for 15% of export earnings.
Population:
1,386,129 (July 2021 est.)
Land Size:
22,040 sq km (788 sq miles)
Major Ethnic Groups:
- Indo-Mauritian: 68%
- Creole: 27%
- Sino-Mauritian: 3%
- Franco-Mauritian: 2%
Religions:
- Hinduism: 48.0%
- Roman Catholicism: 23.6%
- Islam: 16.6%
- Other Christianity: 8.6%
- Other: 2.5%
- Unspecified: 0.3%
- None: 0.4%
Languages(s):
- Creole: 80.5%
- Bhojpuri: 12.1%
- French: 3.4%
- English (official)
- Other: 3.7%
- Unspecified: 0.3%