World population/Mauritius
Africa
Population of Mauritius
1,265,062
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#160
world rank
0.02%
of world population
-0.27%
yearly change
-3,425
people this year
11,254
births a year
11,937
deaths a year
How the figure for Mauritius is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Mauritius at 1,265,062 on 1 July 2026, and projects 1,261,637 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.00 people lost every second.
That places Mauritius at number 160 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.02 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 58 entries in Africa.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 11,254 births and 11,937 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in Africa
Ranked by population.