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Country
|
Mauritius | 
Mongolia |
|
Leader
|
President: Rajkeswur Purryag
|
President: Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
|
|
Population
|
1,313,095
| 3,179,997
|
|
Life Expectancy
|
74.710 years
| 68.630 years
|
|
Capital City
|
Port Louis
| Ulaanbaatar
|
|
Largest city
|
| Port Louis (population: 155,226) | Ulaanbaatar (population: 844,818) |
|
Human Development Index
|
0.802
| 0.72
|
| GDP per capita |
$15,100 US
| $4,800 US
|
|
Literacy Rate
|
84.4%
| 97.8%
|
|
Corruption Perception Index
|
5.5
| 3
|
|
Percentage of Women in Parliament
|
17.1%
| 4.2%
|
| Wealthiest Citizens |
|
|
| Unemployment Rate |
7.800%
| 9.900%
|
|
Death Penalty
|
Abolished
| Legal
|
| |
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Political System
|
parliamentary democracy
| mixed parliamentary/presidential
|
|
Independence date
|
12 March 1968 (from UK)
| 11 July 1921 (from China)
|
| Religions |
Hindu 48%, Roman Catholic 23.6%, Muslim 16.6%, other Christian 8.6%, other 2.5%, unspecified 0.3%, none 0.4% (2000 census)
| Buddhist Lamaist 50%, Shamanist and Christian 6%, Muslim 4%, none 40% (2004)
|
| Languages |
Creole 80.5%, Bhojpuri 12.1%, French 3.4%, English (official; spoken by less than 1% of the population), other 3.7%, unspecified 0.3% (2000 census)
| Khalkha Mongol 90%, Turkic, Russian (1999)
|
| Exports |
clothing and textiles, sugar, cut flowers, molasses, fish
| copper, apparel, livestock, animal products, cashmere, wool, hides, fluorspar, other nonferrous metals
|
| External Debt |
$5,205,000,000 $
| $1,900,000,000 US
|
| Exchange Rate |
Mauritian rupees (MUR) per US dollar - 27.973 (2008 est.), 31.798 (2007), 31.656 (2006), 29.496 (2005), 27.499 (2004)
| togrog/tugriks (MNT) per US dollar - 1,170 (2007), 1,165 (2006), 1,205 (2005), 1,185.3 (2004), 1,146.5 (2003)
|
| Military Budget as percentage of GDP |
0.300%
| 1.400%
|
| Beijing Olympics Medal Count |
1
| 4
|
| Location |
Southern Africa, island in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar
| Northern Asia, between China and Russia
|
| Area |
2,040 km sq
| 1,564,116 km sq
|
| Coastline |
177 km
| 0 km
|
| Climate |
tropical, modified by southeast trade winds; warm, dry winter (May to November); hot, wet, humid summer (November to May)
| desert; continental (large daily and seasonal temperature ranges)
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