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Seychellois Creole (official) 89.1%, English (official) 5.1%, French (official) 0.7%, other 3.8%, unspecified 1.4% (2010 est.)
VICTORIA (capital) 26,000 (2014)
- Conventional long form
- Republic of Seychelles
- Conventional short form
- Seychelles
- Local long form
- Republic of Seychelles
- Local short form
- Seychelles
presidential republic
- Name
- Victoria
- Geographic coordinates
- 4 37 S, 55 27 E
- Time difference
- UTC+4 (9 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
has not submitted an ICJ jurisdiction declaration; accepts ICCt jurisdiction
Since independence in 1976, per capita output in this Indian Ocean archipelago has expanded to roughly seven times the pre-independence, near-subsistence level, moving the island into the upper-middle-income group of countries. Growth has been led by the tourist sector, which employs about 30% of the labor force and provides more than 70% of hard currency earnings, and by tuna fishing.
- Inflation
- -1.016%
- External debt stocks
- US$ 2,713,814,000
- Total tax rate (% of commercial profits)
- 30.1%
- Real Interest Rate
- 18.249%
- Manufacturing, value added (% of GDP)
- 8.453%
- Current Account Balance
- US$ -256,181,313
- Labor Force, Total
- Employment in Agriculture
- 4.09%
- Employment in Industry
- 15.51%
- Employment in Services
- 80.40%
- Unemployment Rate
- 5.50%
- Imports of goods and services
- US$ 1,396,842,653
- Exports of goods and services
- US$ 1,182,039,892
- Total Merchandise Trade
- 104.45%
- FDI, net inflows
- US$ 105,893,597
- Commercial Service Exports
- US$ 839,204,241
coconuts, cinnamon, vanilla, sweet potatoes, cassava (manioc, tapioca), copra, bananas; tuna
fishing, tourism, beverages
- Commodities
- canned tuna, frozen fish, petroleum products (reexports)
- Partners
- France 18%, UK 17.7%, Mauritius 9.9%, Japan 9.1%, Italy 7.7%, Spain 4.5% (2015)
- Commodities
- machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, petroleum products, chemicals, other manufactured goods
- Partners
- Saudi Arabia 22.2%, Spain 11%, Singapore 7.3%, South Africa 4.6%, China 4.4% (2015)