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Mauritius
Mauritius issued a new biometric ID card and is moving to a mobile ID wallet; a UN committee found the earlier card law breached privacy rights. The Bank of Mauritius is piloting a retail digital rupee.
Digital ID · Goal 16.9
Digital ID in Mauritius
- Program
- National Identity Card; MauPass; Mobile ID
- Status
- Available, partial uptake
- National ID card
- ID card compulsory
- Biometrics
- Yes
- Law
- 2024 instruments on the National Identity Card and Mobile ID
Thales announced in May 2024 that it is delivering the new eID card system and a Digital ID Wallet. In 2021 the UN Human Rights Committee found the earlier ID card scheme, which stored fingerprints on the card, violated the right to privacy. In early 2025 the new minister said the Mobile ID project would go ahead.
- Silicon UK/Thales — Thales leads transformation of Mauritius national identity system ↗
- Le Mauricien — Smart and Mobile ID in Mauritius: Recommendations for a Balanced Approach ↗
- Power Law Africa — Human Rights Committee finds Mauritian biometric identity scheme violates privacy ↗
- OECD OPSI — MauPass ↗
Digital money · Goal 8.10
Central bank digital currency
- Status
- Pilot
- Name
- Digital rupee
An opinion series on allAfrica (Oct 2026) says the Bank of Mauritius has piloted a retail Digital Rupee with a commercial bank since 2024. The Bank of Mauritius CBDC FAQ lists reducing cash and improving payment resilience as aims.
On the record
What has happened, newest first
- 2024-05Rolling it out
Thales announced it is delivering Mauritius' new eID card system and Digital ID Wallet. Silicon UK/Thales ↗
- 2015Pushback
Supreme Court found storage and retention of ID-card fingerprint data unconstitutional. mondaq.com ↗
UN and WHO
How Mauritius has voted
- WHO
- Accepted the 2024 rule changes
- Pandemic Agreement (May 2025)
- No recorded objection
- Migration compact (Dec 2018)
- Voted yes
- Paris climate deal
- Party
- SDG Index 2026
- 68.0 · rank 97 of 169
- Progress reports to the UN (VNRs)
- 2
Sovereignty score
How the 0 adds up
- +1Scrapped or court-blocked a national digital ID (since 2015) source ↗
- -1Running a CBDC pilot source ↗
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People pushing back
Groups and cases in Mauritius
- Madhewoo v. Mauritius (UN Human Rights Committee)The Committee found in 2021 that storing fingerprints on the national ID card breached the right to privacy. source ↗
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Country research checked Oct 2026. Tracker data checked 11 Oct 2026. Every claim links to its source.