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 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
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 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 78 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 34.6 years	Ø 37.4 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)
Visit also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life (in german only)

	Mauritius	United States
Political stability:	76	73
Civil rights:	67	83
Health:	61	74
Climate:	63	64
Cost of Living:	58	35
Popularity:	19	72

Economy

	Mauritius	United States
Currency:	Mauritian Rupee (1 MUR = 100 Cents)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	7.1 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	2.58 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living:	51.04 %	110.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	22.20 %	36.60 %
Average income:	10,230 US$	65,910 US$
Corruption index:	53 (moderate)	67 (moderate)

	MUS: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	10,914 M US$	8.62 M US$	20,936,600 M US$	63.54 M US$
Gross national product:	12,946 M US$	10.23 M US$	21,640,511 M US$	65.68 M US$
Exported goods:	5,173 M US$	4.09 M US$	2,127,248 M US$	6.46 M US$
Imported goods:	7,408 M US$	5.85 M US$	2,808,955 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:	28	0.022	3,673	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:	434,300	343	107,281,000	326
Mobile phones:	1,918,000	1515	404,577,000	1228
Internet server:	51,139	40	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	810,054	640	286,441,830	869

Healthcare system

	Mauritius	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	3.40	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	2.02	2.59
Diabetes:	22.0 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.96 %	0.22 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	81.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	26.9 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Mauritius and United States

	Mauritius	United States
Daytime temperatures:	26.3 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	19.9 °C	7.3 °C
Water temperature:	24.8 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	80 %	67 %
Rain days:	14.0	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	7.3	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 %
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 %