Mauritius: Insurance and financial services (% of commercial service imports)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2024, Mauritius' insurance and financial services (% of commercial service imports) fell 3.13 percentage points on 2023 (from 9.71% to 6.58%).

Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1994 to 2023), the average change was +0.13 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 2.08 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.6 standard deviations below that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 40.07 percentage points in 1977 and the biggest yearly fall was 5.52 percentage points in 2002. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2015 to 2024 the straight-line trend is upward, about 0.46 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 39% of the movement over 10 observed years.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

How it compares

In 2024, Mauritius had the 15th highest value of the 27 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.

Closest to Mauritius in the 2024 ranking

• Guinea — 12th of 27: 7.94%
• Fiji — 13th of 27: 7.88%
• Zimbabwe — 14th of 27: 7.28%
• Haiti — 16th of 27: 4.39%
• Solomon Islands — 17th of 27: 4.19%
• Mali — 18th of 27: 4.03%

What this measures

Financial services covers services related to financial intermediation, financial risk management, liquidity transformation or auxiliary financial activities. It also includes insurance and pension scheme services which are services related to providing life insurance and annuities, non-life insurance, reinsurance, pensions, standardised guarantees and auxiliary services to insurance, pension schemes, and standardised guarantee schemes. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of service imports which are commercial services provided by non-residents to residents.

Limitations: Balance of payments statistics, the main source of information on international trade in services, have many weaknesses. Disaggregation of important components may be limited and varies considerably across countries. There are inconsistencies in the methods used to report items. And the recording of major flows as net items is common (for example, insurance transactions are often recorded as premiums less claims). These factors contribute to a downward bias in the value of the service trade reported in the balance of payments. Efforts are being made to improve the coverage, quality, and consistency of these data.

Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.

All 49 values

Insurance and financial services (% of commercial service imports) in nearby economies

• Angola — 7.08% (2025)
• Benin — 2.67% (2023)
• Botswana — 0.57% (2025)
• Burkina Faso — 16.83% (2024)
• Burundi — 10.59% (2025)
• Cabo Verde — 3.73% (2025)
• Cameroon — 9.36% (2024)
• Comoros — 6.55% (2023)
• Congo, Dem. Rep.

More private sector & trade data for Mauritius

• Merchandise trade (% of GDP) — 57.42% (2025)
• Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$6.94 billion (2025)
• Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$2.34 billion (2025)
• Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) — 58.14% (2023)
• Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports) — 27% (2023)
• Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in East Asia & Pacific (% of total merchandise imports) — 5.93% (2023)
• Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in Middle East & North Africa (% of total merchandise imports) — 1.56% (2023)

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Questions people ask

What is Mauritius's insurance and financial services (% of commercial service imports)?

6.58% in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1976?

It is up 39.14 percentage points from -32.57% in 1976. The highest value was 12.3% in 2011 and the lowest -32.57% in 1976.

How does Mauritius rank?

15th highest of 27 economies with data for 2024.

Is the latest change in insurance and financial services (% of commercial service imports) unusual for Mauritius?

In 2024, Mauritius' insurance and financial services (% of commercial service imports) fell 3.13 percentage points on 2023 (from 9.71% to 6.58%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1994 to 2023), the average change was +0.13 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 2.08 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.6 standard deviations below that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator TM.VAL.INSF.ZS.WT, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.

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