Table 1: Selected Economic Indicators


	Period	Unit	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000

1. Population-Republic of Mauritius ¹	Mid-year		1,070,128	1,084,401	1,097,305	1,112,607	1,122,118	1,133,551	1,147,706	1,159,729	1,174,417	1,185,888 ⁴
2. Tourist Arrivals	Calendar Year ending December		300,670	335,400	374,630	400,526	422,463	486,867	536,125	558,195	578,085	656,453
3. Real GDP Growth Rate	Calendar Year	(Per cent)	4.4	6.6	5.0	5.2	5.6	6.2	5.6	5.8 ²	2.6 ³	8.3 ⁴
4. Gross National Product (at market prices)	Calendar Year	(Rs million)	44,405	49,804	56,633	62,600	68,750	76,521	86,054	97,205 ²	106,029 ³	117,405 ⁴
5. GNP Per Capita (at market prices)	Calendar Year	(Rupees)	41,495	45,928	51,611	56,264	61,268	67,506	74,979	83,817 ²	90,282 ³	99,002 ⁴
6. Inflation Rate	Calendar Year ending December	(Per cent)	7.0	4.6	10.5	7.3	6.0	6.6	6.6	6.8	6.9	4.2
7. Overall Balance of Payments	Calendar Year ending December	(Rs million)	+2,628	+608	+140	-773	+1,895	+859	-646	-1,476	+4,803	+6,415
8. Net International Reserves	End-December	(Rs million)	15,150	16,068	16,662	15,902	18,798	19,848	21,995	19,896	26,051	33,554
9. Total Imports (c.i.f.)	Calendar Year	(Rs million)	24,383	25,280	30,319	34,548	34,363	41,082	46,093	49,742	56,629 ⁴	54,729 ⁴
10. Total Exports (f.o.b.)	Calendar Year	(Rs million)	19,300	20,744	23,522	24,697	27,326	32,312	33,694	40,051	40,025 ⁴	41,064 ⁴
11. Government Recurrent Revenue	Fiscal Year ending June	(Rs million)	9,715	10,548	11,595	12,890	13,047	12,779	16,544	18,471	21,327	22,490 ²
12. Government Recurrent Expenditure	Fiscal Year ending June	(Rs million)	9,214	10,273	10,894	13,088	14,517	15,939	18,853	21,010	24,743	25,560²
13. Government Capital Expenditure	Fiscal Year ending June	(Rs million)	2,759	2,607	3,095	3,215	3,192	4,058	5,743	3,420	3,700	3,527 ²
14. External Debt: Central Government	End-June	(Rs million)	5,964	5,476	5,712	5,766	5,778	9,159	9,666	10,752	10,037	9,891 ⁵
15. Internal Debt: Central Government	End-June	(Rs million)	16,953	14,984	16,522	18,676	21,701	24,706	30,241	34,619	40,974	46,940 ⁵
16. Banking System Net Claims on Public Sector	End-December	(Rs million)	6,675	7,478	8,976	11,911	13,282	14,480	18,273	17,983	17,697	13,631
17. Commercial Banks' Claims on Private Sector	End-December	(Rs million)	15,234	18,685	23,924	28,997	33,428	35,002	43,918	56,653	62,521	70,570
18. Currency with Public	End-December	(Rs million)	3,408	3,820	4,231	4,412	4,847	5,051	5,410	5,833	6,127	6,648
19. Money Supply (M1)	End-December	(Rs million)	6,678	7,507	7,425	8,869	9,579	9,831	10,613	11,591	12,004	13,298
20. Aggregate Monetary Resources (M2)	End-December	(Rs million)	29,956	34,702	40,635	45,653	54,181	58,263	67,831	75,429	86,899	94,988
21. Total Private Sector Deposits with Commercial Banks	End-December	(Rs million)	26,248	30,474	35,915	40,425	47,793	51,419	57,426	62,910	73,464	79,252

¹Excluding Agalega and Saint Brandon.	³ Preliminary estimates.	⁵ Revised.
² Revised estimates.	⁴ Provisional.