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President: Prithvirajsing Roopun
Prime Minister: Pravind Kumar Jugnauth
Capital city: Port Louis
Languages: Creole 86.5%, Bhojpuri 5.3%, French 4.1%, two languages 1.4%, other 2.6% (includes English, the official language, which is spoken by less than 1% of the population), unspecified 0.1% (2011 est.)
Population, persons: 1,265,303 (2018)
Area, sq km: 2,030
GDP per capita, US$: 11,239 (2018)
GDP, billion current US$: 14.2 (2018)
GINI index: 36.8 (2017)
Ease of Doing Business rank: 13
