Fylings Industry Report · 🇲🇺 Mauritius · June 2026
The Mauritius Company Register in 2026: A Complete-Coverage Study
The complete register — all 227,308 companies ever recorded by Mauritius's CBRD — read sector by sector and cohort by cohort. What gets registered, what's growing, and what becomes of a company once it's on the books. Fully indexed by Fylings.
Executive summary
The headline numbers
Mauritius runs one of Africa's largest and busiest company registers. Because Fylings holds it in full, we can read it precisely: what sectors it's built from, which are growing, and the balance between companies still active and those dissolved. The standout figure — 52.2% dissolved — is real, but it needs the right lens: this is a global-business jurisdiction where many companies are special-purpose vehicles created for a deal and retired when it's done. The interesting question isn't the headline rate; it's which dissolutions are routine churn and which are genuine closures.
Methodology & how to read it
Four things to keep in mind
- Complete coverage. Fylings holds essentially the entire CBRD register — 227,308 companies, 100% with an incorporation date and a status — so these are real population figures, not a sample.
- Dissolved is not the same as failed. In Mauritius's global-business sector, dissolution is frequently a planned wind-down — a fund or holding vehicle that completed its purpose. A high dissolution share is partly a feature of the jurisdiction, not a measure of business distress. We separate the two below by sector.
- Older cohorts have had more time to dissolve. The active/dissolved split by formation year mixes age with vintage — a 2000 company has had 25 years to wind down, a 2022 one barely three. Treat the cohort curve as “share dissolved so far,” not a like-for-like failure rate.
- Sectors are name-inferred, and 57% are unclassifiable.Mauritian names are often generic (“X Limited”), so the sector shares describe the 43% of companies whose activity the name reveals. Sector figures here come from a cluster of keywords (so they differ from the single-word CBRD counts later in the report).
Formation
A register built over 30 years
Mauritius's company base grew steadily through the 1990s and 2000s as it built its global-business industry, and registrations remain strong today. 6,029 have been registered so far in 2026.
What gets registered
An offshore corporate hub
Where a name reveals activity, Mauritius is dominated by investment, holding, international and corporate-services vehicles — the signature of a global-business jurisdiction — alongside real operating businesses in technology, trade, property and tourism.
Shares cover the 43% of companies whose activity is identifiable from the name; the remaining 57% (generic names like “X Limited”) are not shown.
What's growing
The fastest-rising sectors
Ranking sectors by the share of their companies registered since 2022 shows where Mauritius is adding businesses fastest today — led by healthcare, logistics and technology, a tilt toward real operating activity rather than pure holding vehicles.
- 1. Healthcare & Pharma — 27% registered since 2022 (645 of 2,384)
- 2. Logistics & Shipping — 26% registered since 2022 (770 of 2,916)
- 3. Technology, Media & Telecom — 25% registered since 2022 (2,400 of 9,701)
- 4. Agriculture, Sugar & Seafood — 25% registered since 2022 (625 of 2,492)
- 5. Property, Construction & Real Estate — 24% registered since 2022 (2,199 of 9,040)
- 6. Management & Corporate Services — 24% registered since 2022 (1,639 of 6,908)
Active vs dissolved
The register's balance, by formation year
The share of each year's companies now dissolved rises the further back you look — partly genuine attrition, partly just that older companies have had more time to wind down. The class of 2000 is 84.7% dissolved; recent cohorts, far less.
Share of each formation cohort now dissolved (%) — older cohorts to the left
Churn vs. closure
Which sectors retire by design — and which actually struggle
This is where the “52.2% dissolved” figure becomes useful. The sectors with the highest dissolution are exactly the financial vehicles you'd expect to be wound down on purpose — international/global-business (66%) and finance. The lowest belong to real operating businesses: healthcare (42%) and logistics. So the register's churn is concentrated in structures built to be temporary.
Two findings cut the other way, and they're the genuinely hard part. Manufacturing & textiles sits at 63% dissolved — that's not planned churn, it's the structural decline of Mauritius's old textile economy. And even in operating sectors, survival is tough: around half of all technology (52%) and tourism companies ever registered are already gone. Strip out the offshore vehicles, and building a lasting operating company in Mauritius is genuinely hard.
| Sector | Companies | % dissolved |
|---|---|---|
| International / Global Business | 10,999 | 66% |
| Manufacturing & Textile | 3,136 | 63% |
| Finance & Insurance | 1,699 | 63% |
| Trade & Commerce | 9,598 | 57% |
| Investment & Funds | 18,360 | 55% |
| Holding Companies | 11,532 | 55% |
| Energy & Utilities | 2,497 | 54% |
| Agriculture, Sugar & Seafood | 2,492 | 53% |
| Technology, Media & Telecom | 9,701 | 52% |
| Management & Corporate Services | 6,908 | 50% |
| Tourism & Hospitality | 4,604 | 50% |
| Property, Construction & Real Estate | 9,040 | 49% |
| Logistics & Shipping | 2,916 | 45% |
| Healthcare & Pharma | 2,384 | 42% |
The register itself
Authoritative counts, straight from the CBRD
The CBRD's public search reports the true number of registered names containing a term — a live snapshot for this report (2026-06-20):
| Registered name contains… | Companies in the CBRD |
|---|---|
| “investment” | 11,355 |
| “holding” | 10,645 |
| “international” | 9,670 |
| “global” | 3,242 |
| “fund” | 1,747 |
| “trading” | 5,555 |
| “management” | 3,150 |
| “consulting” | 3,123 |
| “services” | 8,644 |
| “capital” | 3,440 |
| “property” | 1,708 |
| “technology” | 1,094 |
| “limited” | 43,691 |
These count an exact word in the registered name. They differ from the sector table above, which groups a whole cluster of related keywords (e.g. “investment” + “capital” + “fund”) — two methods, two purposes.
In short
What the register says
Read in full, the Mauritius register is two things at once: a global-business platform where investment and holding vehicles are created and retired at scale — which is why over half its companies are dissolved — and a real domestic economy of operating businesses in tech, trade, tourism and healthcare, where survival is genuinely hard. The headline rate isn't a verdict on Mauritian enterprise; the sector-by-sector split is the real story.
Source: CBRD, fully indexed by Fylings (2026-06-20). Complete-coverage figures; see methodology. Free to cite with attribution to Fylings.