Roadways:
total: 2,020 km
paved: 2,020 km (including 75 km of expressways) (2005)
Merchant marine:
total: 6 ships (1000 GRT or over) 22,386 GRT/23,214 DWT
by type: bulk carrier 2, passenger/cargo 2, refrigerated cargo 2
foreign-owned: 4 (India 2, Switzerland 2) (2006)
Ports and terminals:
Port Louis
Military Mauritius
Military branches:
no regular military forces; National Police Force, Special Mobile
Force, National Coast Guard
Manpower available for military service:
males age 18-49: 313,271 (2005 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$12.04 million (2005 est.)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
0.2% (2005 est.)
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, were granted UK citizenship but no right to
patriation in the UK; claims French-administered Tromelin Island