Country comparison Mauritius : United States

General information

	Mauritius	United States
Region:	Eastern Africa	North America
Area:	2,040 km²	9,831,510 km²
Government form:	Parliamentary republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1968 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Port Louis	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Mauritius	United States
Population:	1,266,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	620.5	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 71 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 78 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 36.3 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	10.20 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	8.80 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	0.00 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Mauritius	United States
Political stability:	77	63
Civil rights:	70	81
Health:	65	71
Climate:	63	66
Cost of Living:	60	38
Popularity:	19	67

Economy

	Mauritius	United States
Currency:	Mauritian Rupee (1 MUR = 100 Cents)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	7.4 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	2.58 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	43.32 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	22.20 %	36.60 %
Average income:	10,230 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	54 (moderate)	67 (moderate)

	MUS: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	10,921 M US$	8.63 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.59 M US$
Gross national product:	12,945 M US$	10.23 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.53 M US$
Exported goods:	3,088 M US$	2.44 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.48 M US$
Imported goods:	5,225 M US$	4.13 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	MUS: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	2,428 km	1.92 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Harbours:	29	0.023	3,627	0.011
Airports:	5	0.004	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	MUS: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	2.73 bn kWh	2.15 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	2.90 bn kWh	2.29 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	4.13 m t	3,262.91 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	Mauritius	United States
International dialing:	+230	+1
Internet domain:	.mu	.us

	MUS total	MUS per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	478,700	378	103,052,000	313
Mobile cellulars:	1,912,900	1511	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	51,139	40	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	821,274	649	294,658,590	894
Broadband Internet:	323,200	255	121,176,000	368

Healthcare system

	Mauritius	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	3.40	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	2.02	2.59
Diabetes:	22.0 %	10.8 %
HIV:	1.37 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	79.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	20.5 %	23.4 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Mauritius and United States

	Mauritius	United States
Daytime temperatures:	26.8 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	20.6 °C	7.2 °C
Water temperature:	24.8 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	81 %	67 %
Rain days:	13.8	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	7.1	7.2

Native languages

	Mauritius	United States
Creole:	86.5 %	n/a
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Bhojpuri:	5.3 %	n/a
French:	4.1 %	0.7 %
Hindi:	1.2 %	n/a
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
Tamil:	0.8 %	n/a
German:	n/a	0.6 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Korean:	n/a	0.3 %
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	2.1 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Mauritius	United States
Christianity:	32.7 %	78.5 %
Hinduism:	48.5 %	1.0 %
Islam:	17.3 %	1.1 %
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Nondenominational:	0.7 %	n/a
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	0.8 %	15.3 %