What every visitor should know about Mauritius:
- Money
- The currency is the Mauritian rupee (MRU).
- Crime
- CrimeSafe Travel Score™: 4.5 out of 5 (Very safe)
Areas of concern:
- Pick-pocketing / bag-snatching
- Capital
- Port Louis
- Tap water
- Safe in cities, but bottled water is advisable in rural areas.
Mauritius facts and figures:
People
- Population
- 1,284,264
- Language
- Creole 80.5%, Bhojpuri 12.1%, French 3.4%, English (official; spoken by less than 1% of the population), other 3.7%, unspecified 0.3%
- Ethnicity
- Indo-Mauritian 68%, Creole 27%, Sino-Mauritian 3%, Franco-Mauritian 2%
Economy
- GDP
- US$12,400 (per capita)
- Income equality
- High