Mauritius is ranked as an upper-middle income economy by the World Bank. It has been ranked as the best governed country in all of Africa, five years in a row, finishing on top of the Ibrahim Index of African Governance. According to the Democracy Index, Mauritius is the only African country with “full” democracy.
Mauritius has adopted the British constitutional and administrative system with an elected chamber for members of parliament and a President (who is the Head of State) elected from the parliament and not through universal suffrage. The main source of law remains British common law, with elements of France's Code Napoléon also being used, a legacy of pre-1810 French colonisation
