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Mauritius population

Mauritius population now

1,264,234

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line. 95% range for 31 December 2026: 1.2–1.3 million.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 1,273,588

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 1.26506 million; 95% range, 31 Dec: 1.2–1.3 million
Median age: 39.3
Aged 65+: 14.7%

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male female projection · one cell = 200 people

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MUS · 1950–2100 · in brief

Mauritius in numbers

The UN counts 1,273,588 people in Mauritius in mid-2023, which makes it the 159th-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports, and 0.02% of the world's people. That is 2.4 times its 1950 population of 526 thousand.

Its population peaked in 2015 at 1.3 million and has been falling since. The UN's medium projection has 582 thousand in 2100. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 317 thousand to 990 thousand.

Births stay ahead of deaths until 2025; in the medium projection, deaths are ahead every year after it. Deaths also outnumbered births in 2022.

The median age was 19.0 in 1950 and 37.9 in 2023; the projection has 57.3 in 2100. 12.9% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 39.7% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) peaked in 2015 at 934 thousand; in 2023 it was 916 thousand.

Its place in the world by population: 159th in 2023, 163rd in 2050, 173rd in 2100. It is overtaken by Eswatini in 2026, Djibouti in 2030 and the Comoros in 2043.

Population, mid-2023: 1,273,588
Rank by population, 2023: 159 of 236
Share of the world, 2023: 0.02%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: −0.20% · −2,542 people
People per km² of land, 2023: 638
Land area, 2023: 1,997 km²
Births, 2023: 11,804
Deaths, 2023: 11,124
Net migration, 2023: −2,824
Children per woman, 2023: 1.24
Median age, 2023: 37.9 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 74.9 years
In a city, 2025: 43 of every 100
Population, mid-1950: 525,558
Projected, mid-2050: 1,107,196
Projected, mid-2100: 581,716

MUS · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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estimate projection, up to the bottom of the 95% range 95% range medium projection. Each column is the population on 1 January of one year; the paper rules cut it into equal cells.

Show the numbers: Mauritius, 1950–2100

Mauritius: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
Year	Kind	Population, 1 Jan	95% range	Births	Deaths	Children per woman	Life expectancy
1950	estimate	517,924		22,211	7,744	6.03	51.9
1951	estimate	533,193		22,690	7,699	6.03	52.5
1952	estimate	549,146		22,954	8,063	5.97	52.1
1953	estimate	565,205		23,142	8,526	5.89	51.5
1954	estimate	578,636		23,356	8,390	5.85	52.2
1955	estimate	592,322		23,691	7,883	5.83	53.8
1956	estimate	606,855		24,035	7,483	5.81	55.1
1957	estimate	622,259		24,590	7,369	5.84	55.7
1958	estimate	638,548		25,242	7,256	5.86	56.4
1959	estimate	655,759		25,946	7,054	5.88	57.4
1960	estimate	673,910		26,810	6,879	5.90	58.4
1961	estimate	686,752		27,288	6,749	5.98	59.5
1962	estimate	698,306		26,653	6,610	5.88	60.5
1963	estimate	712,243		28,052	6,597	6.18	61.1
1964	estimate	728,458		27,561	6,565	5.96	61.5
1965	estimate	744,615		26,110	6,420	5.51	62.1
1966	estimate	760,706		26,570	6,561	5.46	62.1
1967	estimate	776,594		23,261	6,669	4.63	61.7
1968	estimate	791,920		23,831	6,669	4.60	62.1
1969	estimate	806,641		21,312	6,440	3.96	62.7
1970	estimate	820,841		21,197	6,202	3.82	63.7
1971	estimate	834,550		20,303	6,237	3.51	63.8
1972	estimate	847,663		20,658	6,373	3.41	63.8
1973	estimate	859,544		19,606	6,253	3.07	64.3
1974	estimate	870,745		22,905	6,556	3.45	64.2
1975	estimate	882,181		22,258	6,707	3.20	64.4
1976	estimate	893,865		22,847	7,068	3.13	64.0
1977	estimate	905,839		23,280	6,914	3.07	64.8
1978	estimate	918,455		23,642	6,868	3.01	65.3
1979	estimate	932,098		23,645	6,707	2.91	66.0
1980	estimate	946,676		23,469	6,649	2.80	66.5
1981	estimate	961,756		22,987	6,514	2.67	67.2
1982	estimate	976,680		22,455	6,369	2.53	68.0
1983	estimate	990,539		21,766	6,349	2.40	68.4
1984	estimate	1,004,194		20,746	6,402	2.23	68.6
1985	estimate	1,018,282		19,451	6,503	2.05	68.7
1986	estimate	1,031,845		18,708	6,570	1.95	68.9
1987	estimate	1,044,843		19,455	6,606	2.00	69.2
1988	estimate	1,057,380		20,511	6,685	2.10	69.4
1989	estimate	1,069,807		21,666	6,858	2.21	69.5
1990	estimate	1,082,157		22,622	6,950	2.30	69.8
1991	estimate	1,095,890		22,628	6,990	2.29	70.0
1992	estimate	1,110,192		23,321	7,111	2.36	70.2
1993	estimate	1,125,148		22,894	7,213	2.31	70.4
1994	estimate	1,139,639		22,280	7,361	2.24	70.4
1995	estimate	1,153,457		21,306	7,432	2.14	70.6
1996	estimate	1,166,184		21,173	7,676	2.12	70.5
1997	estimate	1,178,582		20,422	7,794	2.03	70.7
1998	estimate	1,190,015		19,319	7,848	1.91	70.9
1999	estimate	1,200,196		20,624	7,763	2.03	71.4
2000	estimate	1,211,587		20,154	7,757	1.98	71.8
2001	estimate	1,221,670		19,357	7,867	1.90	72.0
2002	estimate	1,229,932		19,546	8,084	1.92	72.0
2003	estimate	1,238,239		19,030	8,173	1.87	72.3
2004	estimate	1,245,958		18,957	8,273	1.87	72.5
2005	estimate	1,253,641		18,421	8,431	1.82	72.6
2006	estimate	1,260,789		17,268	8,522	1.71	72.8
2007	estimate	1,266,772		16,792	8,665	1.67	72.9
2008	estimate	1,272,265		16,048	8,720	1.60	73.1
2009	estimate	1,277,005		15,284	8,877	1.53	73.3
2010	estimate	1,280,939		14,941	8,789	1.50	73.7
2011	estimate	1,284,480		14,809	8,759	1.48	74.1
2012	estimate	1,288,054		14,764	8,869	1.48	74.3
2013	estimate	1,290,286		14,073	9,059	1.42	74.4
2014	estimate	1,291,681		13,524	9,183	1.37	74.6
2015	estimate	1,292,328		12,939	9,402	1.32	74.7
2016	estimate	1,292,223		13,198	9,558	1.35	74.8
2017	estimate	1,291,384		13,565	9,698	1.40	75.0
2018	estimate	1,289,926		13,207	10,311	1.36	74.5
2019	estimate	1,287,741		13,015	10,750	1.35	74.2
2020	estimate	1,284,799		13,324	10,589	1.39	74.7
2021	estimate	1,281,647		12,954	12,668	1.35	72.9
2022	estimate	1,277,600		12,128	12,247	1.27	73.5
2023	estimate	1,274,659		11,804	11,124	1.24	74.9
2024	estimate	1,272,517		11,600	11,502	1.23	75.1
2025	projection	1,269,821	1.3–1.3 million	11,408	11,717	1.21	75.3
2026	projection	1,266,738	1.3–1.3 million	11,254	11,933	1.21	75.4
2027	projection	1,263,379	1.2–1.3 million	11,119	12,151	1.21	75.6
2028	projection	1,259,884	1.2–1.3 million	10,975	12,367	1.21	75.8
2029	projection	1,256,202	1.2–1.3 million	10,842	12,589	1.21	76.0
2030	projection	1,252,364	1.2–1.3 million	10,733	12,817	1.21	76.1
2031	projection	1,248,501	1.2–1.3 million	10,610	13,040	1.22	76.3
2032	projection	1,244,283	1.2–1.3 million	10,501	13,263	1.22	76.5
2033	projection	1,239,755	1.2–1.3 million	10,377	13,490	1.23	76.6
2034	projection	1,234,884	1.2–1.3 million	10,261	13,709	1.23	76.8
2035	projection	1,229,710	1.2–1.3 million	10,136	13,918	1.24	77.0
2036	projection	1,224,199	1.2–1.3 million	9,981	14,122	1.24	77.1
2037	projection	1,218,371	1.1–1.3 million	9,832	14,324	1.25	77.3
2038	projection	1,212,245	1.1–1.3 million	9,666	14,519	1.26	77.5
2039	projection	1,205,773	1.1–1.3 million	9,475	14,699	1.26	77.7
2040	projection	1,198,864	1.1–1.3 million	9,260	14,876	1.27	77.8
2041	projection	1,191,581	1.1–1.3 million	9,022	15,049	1.27	78.0
2042	projection	1,183,956	1.1–1.3 million	8,797	15,205	1.28	78.2
2043	projection	1,176,036	1.1–1.3 million	8,549	15,335	1.28	78.3
2044	projection	1,167,691	1.1–1.3 million	8,338	15,452	1.29	78.5
2045	projection	1,159,128	1.0–1.3 million	8,123	15,565	1.29	78.7
2046	projection	1,150,190	1.0–1.3 million	7,929	15,665	1.30	78.8
2047	projection	1,141,025	1.0–1.3 million	7,761	15,746	1.30	79.0
2048	projection	1,131,582	1.0–1.3 million	7,613	15,809	1.31	79.2
2049	projection	1,121,945	1.0–1.3 million	7,476	15,861	1.31	79.3
2050	projection	1,112,142	1.0–1.3 million	7,358	15,898	1.31	79.5
2051	projection	1,102,251	1.0–1.3 million	7,262	15,935	1.32	79.7
2052	projection	1,092,226	0.9–1.3 million	7,166	15,952	1.32	79.9
2053	projection	1,082,101	0.9–1.2 million	7,074	15,972	1.32	80.0
2054	projection	1,071,835	0.9–1.2 million	6,996	15,970	1.33	80.2
2055	projection	1,061,533	0.9–1.2 million	6,912	15,968	1.33	80.4
2056	projection	1,051,191	0.9–1.2 million	6,818	15,960	1.33	80.5
2057	projection	1,040,721	0.9–1.2 million	6,729	15,949	1.34	80.7
2058	projection	1,030,251	0.9–1.2 million	6,638	15,939	1.34	80.9
2059	projection	1,019,783	0.8–1.2 million	6,556	15,932	1.35	81.0
2060	projection	1,009,228	0.8–1.2 million	6,483	15,912	1.35	81.2
2061	projection	998,586	0.8–1.2 million	6,407	15,904	1.36	81.3
2062	projection	987,918	0.8–1.2 million	6,333	15,890	1.36	81.5
2063	projection	977,185	0.8–1.2 million	6,257	15,876	1.36	81.7
2064	projection	966,453	0.8–1.2 million	6,177	15,863	1.36	81.8
2065	projection	955,626	0.8–1.2 million	6,104	15,856	1.37	82.0
2066	projection	944,720	0.7–1.2 million	6,023	15,838	1.37	82.2
2067	projection	933,848	0.7–1.2 million	5,958	15,824	1.37	82.3
2068	projection	922,940	0.7–1.2 million	5,889	15,812	1.38	82.5
2069	projection	912,014	0.7–1.2 million	5,810	15,780	1.38	82.6
2070	projection	901,024	0.7–1.2 million	5,728	15,753	1.38	82.8
2071	projection	889,922	0.7–1.2 million	5,634	15,719	1.39	82.9
2072	projection	878,872	0.7–1.2 million	5,539	15,688	1.39	83.1
2073	projection	867,694	0.6–1.1 million	5,440	15,636	1.39	83.3
2074	projection	856,503	0.6–1.1 million	5,343	15,591	1.40	83.4
2075	projection	845,288	0.6–1.1 million	5,237	15,535	1.40	83.5
2076	projection	834,073	0.6–1.1 million	5,135	15,466	1.40	83.7
2077	projection	822,818	0.6–1.1 million	5,035	15,408	1.41	83.8
2078	projection	811,504	0.6–1.1 million	4,936	15,331	1.41	84.0
2079	projection	800,222	0.6–1.1 million	4,840	15,247	1.41	84.2
2080	projection	788,952	0.6–1.1 million	4,761	15,161	1.41	84.3
2081	projection	777,724	0.5–1.1 million	4,678	15,068	1.42	84.4
2082	projection	766,508	0.5–1.1 million	4,600	14,962	1.42	84.6
2083	projection	755,291	0.5–1.1 million	4,526	14,844	1.42	84.7
2084	projection	744,195	0.5–1.1 million	4,464	14,707	1.42	84.8
2085	projection	733,163	0.5–1.1 million	4,396	14,573	1.42	85.0
2086	projection	722,193	0.5–1.1 million	4,346	14,416	1.43	85.1
2087	projection	711,327	0.5–1.1 million	4,291	14,260	1.43	85.3
2088	projection	700,630	0.4–1.0 million	4,236	14,090	1.43	85.4
2089	projection	690,062	0.4–1.0 million	4,188	13,913	1.43	85.5
2090	projection	679,622	0.4–1.0 million	4,146	13,708	1.43	85.7
2091	projection	669,365	0.4–1.0 million	4,104	13,499	1.44	85.8
2092	projection	659,280	0.4–1.0 million	4,061	13,291	1.44	85.9
2093	projection	649,390	0.4–1.0 million	4,021	13,065	1.44	86.1
2094	projection	639,667	0.4–1.0 million	3,983	12,834	1.44	86.2
2095	projection	630,173	0.4–1.0 million	3,940	12,581	1.45	86.3
2096	projection	620,886	0.4–1.0 million	3,898	12,330	1.45	86.5
2097	projection	611,817	0.3–1.0 million	3,852	12,089	1.45	86.6
2098	projection	602,946	338,067–998,662	3,809	11,838	1.45	86.7
2099	projection	594,303	327,056–993,041	3,764	11,580	1.45	86.9
2100	projection	585,848	317,156–989,823	3,719	11,343	1.45	87.0

Show the numbers: Mauritius, mid-2026, by single year of age

Mauritius: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	5,668	5,484
1	5,712	5,526
2	5,784	5,596
3	5,896	5,718
4	5,938	6,109
5	5,885	6,329
6	5,854	6,178
7	5,860	6,082
8	5,896	6,035
9	5,958	6,038
10	6,043	6,091
11	6,146	6,196
12	6,266	6,354
13	6,406	6,561
14	6,578	6,813
15	6,810	7,108
16	7,118	7,446
17	7,504	7,825
18	7,958	8,236
19	8,423	8,630
20	8,824	8,952
21	9,114	9,160
22	9,270	9,233
23	9,317	9,198
24	9,303	9,096
25	9,314	9,012
26	9,403	8,998
27	9,548	9,033
28	9,770	9,140
29	10,060	9,316
30	10,340	9,492
31	10,602	9,665
32	10,837	9,832
33	11,028	9,976
34	11,134	10,056
35	11,112	10,029
36	10,934	9,864
37	10,601	9,554
38	10,131	9,125
39	9,622	8,676
40	9,250	8,368
41	9,108	8,292
42	9,215	8,465
43	9,546	8,868
44	9,980	9,378
45	10,311	9,790
46	10,421	9,984
47	10,288	9,940
48	9,930	9,672
49	9,432	9,258
50	8,928	8,825
51	8,503	8,454
52	8,168	8,156
53	7,923	7,930
54	7,769	7,786
55	7,704	7,734
56	7,719	7,768
57	7,806	7,892
58	7,959	8,099
59	8,128	8,332
60	8,234	8,512
61	8,223	8,585
62	8,090	8,538
63	7,847	8,380
64	7,523	8,136
65	7,176	7,846
66	6,831	7,540
67	6,496	7,216
68	6,176	6,880
69	5,866	6,542
70	5,550	6,207
71	5,223	5,892
72	4,898	5,601
73	4,575	5,332
74	4,241	5,060
75	3,880	4,752
76	3,488	4,390
77	3,072	3,973
78	2,651	3,515
79	2,246	3,050
80	1,890	2,632
81	1,598	2,273
82	1,358	1,963
83	1,166	1,700
84	1,014	1,484
85	885	1,302
86	762	1,142
87	647	1,002
88	539	881
89	442	772
90	358	671
91	286	569
92	225	468
93	174	369
94	131	279
95	98	206
96	73	148
97	54	106
98	38	76
99	27	55
100+	48	108

MUS · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Mauritius, every age in every year

Each column is a year and each row an age; the denser the ink in a cell, the more people. Everyone born in the same year climbs one 45° diagonal, so famines, baby booms and migration show up as streaks. Select a cell to follow its generation.

MUS · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Mauritius

Mauritius had the most working-age people it is ever expected to have in 2015: 933,777 people aged 15–64, against 916,145 in 2023.

100 aged 15–64

21 children

18 aged 65+

aged 15–64 children under 15 aged 65 and over

How to read this: the orange squares are 100 people aged 15–64 in 2023, and the rows below are how many children (teal) and how many people aged 65 or older (violet) lived alongside them.

Fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 in 43 years: 1996–2038.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100 the same, projected 50 or more

How to read this: the strip runs 1950 to 2100. Coloured years are the ones with under 50 dependants for every 100 people aged 15–64; grey years are the rest, and a hatched year has not happened yet.

How every country compares

MUS · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Mauritius, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Mauritius loses 3,420 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 0–4, at 379 a year more leaving than arriving.

one square = 50 people a year

020406080+

more arrive than leave more leave than arrive

How to read this: left to right is age, from babies to 100. Blue squares above the line are ages at which more people arrive than leave; orange squares below it, ages at which more leave than arrive. These are the UN's projection for 2020–2025. There is no record of migration by age before 2020.

Its best and worst years between 1950 and 2023: a gain of 1,164 (1952), and a loss of 8,984 (1961).

In 2024, 29,142 people living in Mauritius had been born in another country, 2 of every 100 people there, against fewer than 1 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

MUS · births by the mother's age · 1950–2100

Who has the babies in Mauritius

Of every 100 babies born in Mauritius in 2023, 8 had a mother under 20, 76 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 16 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 14 under 20 and 14 aged 35 or older.

1950
14 · 72 · 14

2023
8 · 76 · 16

2050 · projected
4 · 67 · 29

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: each block is 100 babies born in that year, one square each, coloured by how old the mother was. The numbers under a block are the three groups, youngest mothers first.

Babies born, 2023: 11,804
Average age when women have a baby: 29.1 years; 28.5 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 20; 125 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in Mauritius by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	108	43	31	21	8	2
15–19	2,916	2,925	1,925	888	250	74
20–24	6,630	8,022	6,606	2,114	618	261
25–29	5,680	6,052	5,715	3,294	1,557	774
30–34	3,787	3,055	3,711	3,548	2,772	1,482
35–39	2,359	1,521	1,782	1,536	1,712	921
40–44	661	562	362	379	412	192
45–49	69	74	20	24	29	13
50–54	1	4	2	0	0	0
All babies	22,211	22,258	20,154	11,804	7,358	3,719

The UN's births for each year, split by the mother's age in the UN's own proportions.

MUS · healthy years · 2021

Years in good health in Mauritius

A baby born in Mauritius in 2021 could expect 73.4 years of life, 63.6 of them in full health (95% range 63.1–64.5). That leaves 9.8 years in less than full health, close to the world's 9.5.

Women

65.6 in full health, 11.3 not: 76.9 years

Men

61.8 in full health, 8.3 not: 70.1 years

a year in full health a year in less than full health

How to read this: each square is a year of life, each row ten years; filled squares are years in full health, rounded to whole years.

Women: 65.6 healthy years of 76.9. Men: 61.8 of 70.1. In 2019, before the pandemic, the healthy years were 64.2.

MUS · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Mauritius

At the end of 2025, Mauritius was hosting 257 people who had crossed a border into it, about 0.2 of every 1,000 people living there.

hosted from abroad257
Mauritius nationals abroad723

stayed inside their own country crossed a border

How to read this: count the squares — 20 people each, so the rows can be compared with one another. The last row is people from Mauritius living in another country, wherever they are.

In 2025, 178 people asked for asylum in Mauritius for the first time; 236 people from Mauritius asked for asylum in another country. Of every 100 people from Mauritius whose claims were decided that year, 13 were given protection. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

MUS · of every 100 people

How people live in Mauritius

Of every 100 people in Mauritius in 2025, 43 lived in a city, 48 in a town or suburb and 9 in the countryside.

cities towns and suburbs rural areas

Nearly everyone has electricity at home (2024). 26.7 of every 100 do not use the internet (2024).

How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person, coloured by where they live, as the key says. The same rule is used in every country.

How the world's people live

MUS · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in Mauritius went in school

Of every 100 adults in Mauritius in 2020, 4 never went to school and 38 finished upper secondary or went further.

4 never went to school 22 some primary 23 finished primary 13 finished lower secondary 30 finished upper secondary 8 studied after school

The young went further: 0.2 of every 100 women aged 25–29 never went to school, against 6.5 of every 100 aged 60–64 (men: 0.2 against 2.5).

Its people aged 15 to 64 were most numerous in 2020, the first year counted, and are never as many again in the middle projection; the ones who finished upper secondary are most numerous later, in 2055.

How to read this: 100 squares, one for every hundredth adult aged 25 or over, from least schooling on the left to most on the right. Counted by the Wittgenstein Centre for 2020.

How far the world's people went in school

MUS · cities · 2025

Cities in Mauritius

Mauritius had 1 city in 2025, home to 549,015 people. The largest, Port Louis, holds 43 of every 100 people in Mauritius.

Port Louis549,015

How to read this: the one city here in 2025, drawn on a single scale so the bars can be compared. Each is a built-up area on the UN's rule rather than a city government's patch.

All the world's cities

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual country tables (estimates to 2023, projections with 95% intervals from 2024), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

The censuses, surveys and registers behind the UN's estimates for Mauritius are listed, source by source, on the UN's own data sources page.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · World Bank · UNHCR · country code lists · UN WUP 2025 · Wittgenstein Centre · WHO GHO · flag-icons · Natural Earth. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

Checked before it was drawn

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries The pyramid for every year was checked against the published total. What that stamp counts, and what every page here has to pass before it can be built: how this site checks its figures.