Mauritius

Mauritius held at 144th in 2025, unchanged, between the Republic of the Congo and Namibia. US$ GDP rose 8.2% to US$16.2 billion on real growth of +3.1%; the 5.0-percentage-point gap was mostly exchange-rate and price effects, not output.

Services make up 63.9% of output and industry 17.7%, with manufacturing at 11.2% and agriculture at 4.6%. Inflation was 3.7%, unemployment 5.6% and government gross debt 86.8% of GDP.

The per-person figures tell a different story from the headline rank. With 1.2 million people, output per head is US$12,991, 81st of 196, and $33,667 international dollars on a purchasing-power basis, 73rd, far above the economy's overall position. Mauritius is the 28th largest of 47 economies in Sub-Saharan Africa and about the size of the Laredo, TX metro area. GDP has grown 3.4x since 2000, when it stood at US$4.7 billion and ranked 120th. The IMF projects US$21.3 billion by 2030, up 32%, which would place it 137th among economies with forecasts.