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	1,185,889 ⁴
2. Tourist Arrivals	Fiscal Year ending June		292,550	321,000	350,370	388,255	406,556	450,493	513,798	555,616	565,324	620,030
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	Fiscal Year ending June	(Per cent)	12.8	2.9	8.9	9.4	6.1	5.8	7.9	5.4	7.9	5.3
7. Overall Balance of Payments	Fiscal Year ending June	(Rs million)	+2,456	+3,048	-909	-962	-1,009	+3,841	+1600	-2,293	+690	+2,141
8. Net International Reserves	End June	(Rs million)	13,456	16,329	16,115	15,513	15,007	19,304	21,443	21,349	22,575	25,214
9. Total Imports (c.i.f.)	Fiscal Year ending June	(Rs million)	24,005	25,381	27,209	31,041	35,598	37,704	41,878	49,322	54077 ⁴	54966 ⁴
10. Total Exports (f.o.b.)	Fiscal Year ending June	(Rs million)	18,797	20,348	21,820	24,188	25,482	29,090	33,128	36,279	41702 ⁴	38,058 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	9,870 ⁴
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-June	(Rs million)	5,045	6,968	8,190	10,871	13,529	14,798	15,759	17,358	16,014	18,466
17. Commercial Banks' Claims on Private Sector	End-June	(Rs million)	14,033	16,107	20,388	26,463	30,776	32,576	37,736	49,941	60,106	67,271
18. Currency with Public	End-June	(Rs million)	2,588	2,972	3,316	3,570	3,767	4,162	4,307	4,651	4,876	5,172
19. Money Supply (M1)	End-June	(Rs million)	5,446	6,591	6,959	7,031	8,134	8,235	8,874	10,152	10,906	11,065
20. Aggregate Monetary Resources (M2)	End-June	(Rs million)	26,767	32,105	36,380	42,853	47,859	55,476	60,359	70,878	80,204	88,935
21. Total Private Sector Deposits with Commercial Banks	End-June	(Rs million)	24,009	28,780	32,853	38,791	42,773	49,331	53,334	59,609	67,323	75,522

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