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Mauritius

1,243,741

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change-2.04K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+4.8%from 1.19M
Life expectancy73.8 years2024
Fertility rate1.44births per woman · 2024
Urban population39.0%2025
RegionSub-Saharan Africa Upper middle income

A country at every age

How Mauritius is shaped by age.

Most people are in the working ages, with the younger and older generations shaping what comes next.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1414.5%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6471.3%Working-age population
Ages 65+14.1%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate10.3births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate10.0deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+0.3births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-2.78Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Mauritius look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 1.11M in 2050—12.9% smaller than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 20241.27M
  2. 20501.11M
  3. 2100581.72K
Median age in 205049.1years
Births in 20507.36Kduring the year
Deaths in 205015.9Kduring the year
Life expectancy79.5years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 1960680.33K
  2. 1970826K
  3. 1980966.04K
  4. 19901.06M
  5. 20001.19M
  6. 20101.25M
  7. 20201.27M
  8. 20251.24M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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