| Table Name | Mauritius |
| 1.0 Contact Information | |
| 1.1 Name | Satiarajsir Mohajur |
| 1.2 Designation (Job Title) | Senior Analyst |
| 1.3 Organization | Ministry of Finance and Economic Development |
| 1.4 Mailing Address | 9th Floor, E. Anquetil Building, Port Louis |
| 1.5 Country | Mauritius |
| 1.6 Email | smohajur@govmu.org |
| 1.7 Telephone | (+230) 2013903 |
| 2.0 Concepts, Definitions and Scope | |
| 2.1 Statistical frameworks for the compilation of external debt data | 2013 External Debt Statistics Guide/6th Edition of Balance of Payments Manual (BPM6) |
| 2.2 Consistency with the external debt liabilities of the International Investment Position (IIP) | Yes |
| 2.3 Additional Information on Concepts, Definitions and Scope | None |
| 3.0 Sector Classification/Coverage | |
| 3.1 Data coverage for General Government | Fully covered |
| 3.2 Data coverage for Central Bank | Fully covered |
| 3.3 Data coverage for Deposit-taking corporations, except the Central Bank | Fully covered |
| 3.4 Data coverage for Other Sectors | Broadly covered (non-coverage insignificant) |
| 3.5 Data coverage for Other financial corporations | Fully covered |
| 3.6 Data coverage for Nonfinancial corporations | Broadly covered (non-coverage insignificant) |
| 3.7 Data coverage for Households and nonprofit institutions serving households (NPISHs) | Not covered |
| 3.8 Data coverage for Direct Investment: Intercompany lending | Broadly covered (non-coverage insignificant) |
| 3.9 External debt statistics presented into Public and Publicly Guar. Private Sector and Private Sector Not Publicly Guar. Debt | No |
| 3.10 External debt include both foreign currency and domestic currency denominated debt instruments held by nonresidents | Yes |
| 3.11 Additional comments and explanations on Sector Classification/Coverage | Households and nonprofit institutions serving households are not captured. |
| 4.0 Debt Instrument Classification/Coverage | |
| 4.1 Data coverage for Currency and deposits | Fully covered |
| 4.2 Data coverage for Debt Securities | Fully covered |
| 4.3 Data coverage for Loans | Fully covered |
| 4.4 Data coverage for Trade credit and advances | Broadly covered (non-coverage insignificant) |
| 4.5 Data coverage for Other debt liabilities | Broadly covered (non-coverage insignificant) |
| 4.6 Data coverage for Special drawing rights (allocations) | Fully covered |
| 4.7 Data coverage for Debt liabilities of direct investment enterprises to direct investors | Fully covered |
| 4.8 Data coverage for Debt liabilities of direct investors to direct investment enterprises | Fully covered |
| 4.9 Data coverage for Debt liabilities to fellow enterprises | Fully covered |
| 4.10 Arrears (including interest that accrues on arrears) reported in the same debt instrument | Yes |
| 4.11 Arrears separately identified in the memorandum items | No |
| 4.12 Classification of maturity for short-term/long-term debt instruments | Original Maturity |
| 4.13 Additional comments and explanations on Debt Instrument Classification/Coverage | (i) SDR allocations are included from 2011Q4. (ii) Trade credit (for the public sector) is compiled through monthly surveys. There could be some institutions, especially the small ones, which might not be reporting to us. These are expected to be insignificant. (iii) Other debt liabilities, in particular regarding insurance, pensions and standardised guarantee schemes are currently not captured in public sector debt. (iv) Part of external debt data are captured through annual surveys that are available after a one year lag for incorporation in the external debt statistics. |
| 5.0 Valuation and Basis of Recording | |
| 5.1 Main valuation method for debt securities (in main table) | Face Value |
| 5.2 Main valuation method for debt securities (in memorandum items) | Not reporting debt securities in memorandum items. |
| 5.3 Other methods and weights used for valuation of debt securities | None |
| 5.4 Basis for compiling external debt statistics | Cash Basis |
| 5.5 Inclusion of accrued interest costs that are not paid | No |
| 6.0 Data sources/Compiling Organizations | |
| 6.1 Main data source(s) for the external debt statistics | (i) The sources for Government external debt data are loan agreements, notifications of disbursements by creditors and notifications of payments by the Bank of Mauritius (BOM). The Ministry of Finance also maintains debt data for extra budgetary units, local government and financial and non-financial public corporations from information submitted on a template by the organizations on a monthly basis. (ii) The current source for compiling private external debt data by BOM are the banking records, which provides monthly data that are complemented by annual surveys of both resident enterprises and Global Business Companies - Category 1 (GBC1s). |
| 6.2 Link(s) to national website where the external debt statistics are being disseminated | http://mof.govmu.org/English/Public%20Debt/Pages/Debt-Data.aspx |
| 6.3 Link(s) to relevant metadata that currently exists and is consistent with your external debt statistics | http://dsbb.imf.org/Pages/SDDS/DQAFBase.aspx?ctycode=MUS&catcode=EXD00 |
| 6.4 Primary agency responsible for compiling external debt statistics | The Ministry of Finance and Economic Development is responsible for the compilation of public sector external debt statistics and the Central Bank Of Mauritius is responsible for Monetary Authorities, Other Deposit-taking institutions and Other financial corporations and non-financial corporations external debt statistics. |
| 6.5 Primary agency responsibile for disseminating external debt statistics | Ministry of Finance and Economic Development |
| 7.0 Periodicity and Timeliness | |
| 7.1 Frequency of external debt statistics compilation | Monthly |
| 7.2 Frequency of external debt statistics dissemination | Quarterly |
| 7.3 Timeliness of the publication of the external debt statistics | Within one month of the end of every quarter. |
| 7.4 Additional comments on Periodicity and Timeliness | None |
| 8.0 Revision Policy | |
| 8.1 Data revision policy | No revision policy. |
| 9.0 Unit of Measure | |
| 9.1 Unit of Measure | Data are in USD. |
| 10.0 Reference Period | |
| 10.1 Reference Period | (i) Data are available starting from 2011Q4. (ii) Data converted through generic conversion from 2003 EDS Guide/BPM5 to 2013 EDS Guide/BPM6 basis by the World Bank from 2011Q4 to 2013Q2. (iii) Data reported by country on a 2013 EDS Guide/BPM6 basis starting from 2013Q3. |
| 11.0 Table Reporting | |
| 11.1 Table 1 - Gross External Debt Position: by Sector (Prescribed component) | Yes |
| 11.2 Table 2 - Gross External Debt Position: Foreign Currency and Domestic Currency Denominated Debt (Encouraged component) | No |
| 11.3 Table 3 - Debt-Service Payment Schedule for Outstanding External Debt as of End-Period: by Sector (Encouraged component) | No |
| 11.4 Table 4-Gross External Debt Position:Principal and Interest Payments Due in 1 Yr or less -by Sector (Encouraged component) | No |
| 11.5 Table 1.1 - Gross External Debt Position: Debt Securities - Reconciliation of Nominal and Market Value | No |
| 11.6 Table 1.2 - Gross External Debt Position: Other Sectors | No |
| 11.7 Table 1.3 - Gross External Debt Position: Public Sector Debt and Publicly-Guaranteed Private Sector Debt | No |
| 11.8 Table 1.4 - Gross External Debt Position: Arrears by Sector | No |
| 11.9 Table 1.5 - Net External Debt Position: by Sector | No |
| 11.10 Table 1.6 - Gross External Debt Position: Reconciliation of Positions and Flows | No |
| 11.11 Table 2.1 - Gross External Foreign Currency and Foreign-Currency-Linked Debt Position | No |
| 11.12 Table 3.1 - Gross External Debt Position: Short-Term Remaining Maturity - by Sector | No |
| 11.13 Table 3.2 - Debt-Service Payment Schedule for Outstanding External Debt as of End-Period: by Sector and Instrument | No |
| 12.0 Metadata Update | |
| 12.1 Metadata last updated | 12/14/2016 |