Airports - with paved runways:
total: 2
over 3,047 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 1 (2002)
Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 3
914 to 1,523 m: 2
under 914 m: 1 (2002)
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: 341,029 (2003 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 171,556 (2003 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$9.712 million (FY02)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
0.2% (FY02)
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