## Mauritius: Technical Assistance Report—Report on Data Quality Assessment for Public Sector Debt Statistics Mission (September 4-12, 2025)

_Technical Assistance Reports, December 10, 2025_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: December 10, 2025
- Series: Technical Assistance Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229028868.019

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### Assessment scope and context
- The assessment applied the IMF’s Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF) for Public Sector Debt Statistics (PSDS).
- The mission took place in September 2025 as part of an initiative funded by the Government of Japan to strengthen public sector debt data in select African countries.
- Publication: Technical Assistance Report No. 2025/102, 32 pages.

### Public debt levels and fiscal risk
- Mauritius’ public debt is estimated to be 86 percent of GDP at the end of the 2024/25 fiscal year (end of June 2025).
- Consolidated gross public debt was 64 percent of GDP at the end of December 2019, just before the Covid pandemic.
- The rise in public debt over the last five years has translated into a high risk of sovereign stress according to IMF’s latest debt sustainability analysis of June 2025.

### Data dissemination and reporting practices
- Mauritius subscribes to the IMF’s Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS).
- The authorities submit quarterly debt data to the Joint IMF-World Bank Quarterly Public Sector Debt statistics database (QPSD).
- Quarterly debt data are disseminated regularly and timely via:
  - The National Summary Data Page (NSDP) of the SDDS.
  - The QPSD.
- The Ministry of Finance (MOF) publishes a range of detailed quarterly public sector debt tables on their website.

### Key findings on data quality and coverage
- Debt reports could be made more comprehensive through the inclusion of all debt instruments.
- User needs could be better met by:
  - Clearly presenting revisions.
  - Publishing stock-flow reconciliations.
  - Improving metadata.
  - Ensuring consistency with other macroeconomic statistics.
- Legislative and administrative arrangements could be further strengthened, including by designating PSDS as official statistics subject to the oversight and safeguards of the Statistics Act.

### Recommendations and actions
- The mission made recommendations to:
  - Expand instrument coverage in debt reports.
  - Present revisions clearly and provide stock-flow reconciliations.
  - Improve metadata and cross-statistics consistency.
  - Strengthen legislative and administrative frameworks, including designation of PSDS as official statistics under the Statistics Act.
- The authorities have accepted the mission recommendations and developed an action plan to implement them in a phased manner.

*Source: Mauritius: Technical Assistance Report-Report on Data Quality Assessment for Public Sector Debt Statistics Mission (September 4-12, 2025).*

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