Infrastructure — Mauritius
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Mauritius: 5
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Transportation
- Airports - total
5
- Airports with Paved Runways
2
- Roadways- total
1,335 Miles 2,149 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Port Louis
Communications
- Telephones
379,100
- Cell Phones
936,000
- Internet Users
340,000
- Internet Country Code
.mu
- Internet Hosts
36,653
- Broadcast Media
- the government maintains control over TV broadcasting through the Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation (MBC), which operates 3 analog and 10 digital TV stations
- MBC is a shareholder in a local company that operates 2 pay-TV stations
- the state retains the largest radio broadcast network with multiple stations
- several private radio broadcasters have entered the market since 2001
- transmissions of at least 2 international broadcasters are available
- Telephone System
- small system with good service domestic: monopoly over fixed-line services terminated in 2005; fixed-line teledensity roughly 30 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular services launched in 1989 with
- current teledensity roughly 100 per 100 persons international: country code - 230; landing point for the SAFE submarine cable that provides links to Asia and South Africa where it connects to the SAT-3/WASC submarine cable that provides further links to parts of East Africa, and Europe; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean); new microwave link to Reunion; HF radiotelephone links to several countries
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
2,158,000,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
2,321,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
24,710