SOCIAL ECONOMIC INDICATORS MAURITIUS COUNTRY FACT SHEET 1. Population : 1,348,242 (July 2016 est.) o female population (% of total) : 51,61 % (2015 est.) 2. GDP o Official Exchange Rate: $11.74billion (2016 est.) o Purchasing Power Parity: $25.85billion (2016 est.) country comparison to the world: #138 o Real Growth Rate: 3.5% (2016 est.) country comparison to the world: #78 o per capita: $9252.111 (2016 est) o per capita (PPP): $20,500 (2016 est.) o composition, by sector of origin: agriculture: 4 % industry: 22.1 % services: 73.9 % (2016 est.) 3. Gross National Savings: 15.8% of GDP (2016 est.) country comparison to the world: #115 4. Labor force: 624,700 (2016 est.) country comparison to the world: #156 o Labor Force, female, (% of total labor force) : 39.571 % o Labor Force Participation Rate , male (% male population over 15): 74.606% o Labor Force Participation Rate ,female (% female population over 15): 46.826% These briefly highlights: (i) Social Economic Indicators 5. Unemployment rate (% of total labor force) (modeled ILO estimate): 7.783 (2016 est) o Female unemployment rate: 11.543 % (2016 est.) (ii) World Bank Ease of Doing Business Global rankings (iii) Energy Indicators 6. Inflation Rate (consumer prices): 1.1% (2016 est.) country comparison to the world: #72 WORLD BANK EASE OF DOING BUSINESS GLOBAL RANKING Getting Protecting Trading Ease of Doing Starting a Dealing with Registering Getting Paying Enforcing Resolving Electricity Minority across Business Business Construction Property Credit Taxes Contracts Insolvency World Ranking Permits Investors Borders #49 #48 #33 #110 #98 #44 #32 #45 #74 #34 #39 ENERGY INDICATORS OTHER GENDER INDICATORS 1. Electricity Access: o Population without electricity: 0 o Electrification - total population: 100% o Electrification - urban areas: 100% 1. Participation of Women o Electrification - rural areas: 100% (2013) o Women in Parliament - 12% (2016 Est) o Women in Government (Ministerial Level)- 12% (2015 Est) 2. Electricity Production: 2.8 billion kWh (2014 est.) o Administration and Managers: 8% (2005 Est) country comparison to the world: #134 3. Electricity Consumption: 2.6 billion kWh (2014 est.) country comparison to the world: #139 4. Electricity Exports: 0 billion kWh (2014 est.) country comparison to the world: #146 5. Electricity Imports: 0 million kWh (2014 est.) country comparison to the world: #160 6. Electricity - installed generating capacity: 1.1 million kW (2014 est.) country comparison to the world: #125 7. Carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy: 5.4 million Mt (2013 est.) country comparison to the world: #126 8. Access to clean cooking: 99% of total population 9. Renewable Energy: 11% of Total Final Energy Consumption 10. Energy Efficiency (MJ per US$ PPP 2011): 3 REFERENCES: 1. World Bank Open Data: http://data.worldbank.org/ 2. The World Energy Council: https://www.worldenergy.org/data/ 3. Global Tracking Framework: http://gtf.esmap.org/ 4. The World Factbook: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/ .