Airports - with paved runways: total: 2 over 3,047 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 1 (2001)
Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 3 914 to 1,523 m: 1 under 914 m: 2 (2001)
Military Mauritius
Military branches: National Police Force (includes the paramilitary
Special Mobile Force or SMF and National Coast Guard)
Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 340,050 (2002 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service: males age 15-49: 171,239 (2002 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure: $9.1 million (FY01)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 0.2% (FY01)
Transnational Issues Mauritius
Disputes - international: Mauritius claims the Chagos Archipelago
(UK-administered British Indian Ocean Territory), and its former
inhabitants, who reside chiefly in Mauritius, but were granted
UK citizenship and the right to repatriation in 2001; claims
French-administered Tromelin Island