Benchmarking Mauritius’ growth performance

Mauritius aspires to high-income status, but its per capita income growth over the past 16 years has been lower than the average for its group, the upper-middle-income (UMI) category in the World Bank's income classification. The same slippage is observed for indicators of governance and port efficiency, but not for doing business indicators. Taking the more specific case of Port-Louis port, its efficiency has remained low compared to other ports in East and South Africa. These examples demonstrate that Mauritius should utilise more extensively available data from comparator countries when evaluating its performance.