Seychelles
VintagesWEO April 2026WDI pulled 25 October 2026IDS 2025 (December 2025 release)WPP 2024, medium variantLast refreshed 25 October 2026About the data
The identity
GDP growth is output-per-worker growth plus growth in the employment-to-working-age ratio plus working-age population growth. All three are annual growth rates, so the bar adds.
- Output per workernot yet fetched
- Employment-to-working-age rationot yet fetched
- Working-age population (15-64)+2.24%
- Observed GDP growth+4.36%
- Implied (the three terms summed)not yet computable
| Overlay (beside the bar, never inside it) | Value |
|---|---|
| Wage employment share | not yet fetched |
| Non-agricultural employment share | not yet fetched |
| Employment rate, women | not yet fetched |
| Employment rate, men | not yet fetched |
| Youth not in employment, education or training | 16.9% |
| Productivity growth, within-sector | not yet fetched |
| Productivity growth, between-sector | not yet fetched |
| Wage employment source | not yet fetched |
Generative-AI exposure: 3.1 percent of employment in the most exposed occupations (gradient 4 of the ILO's 2025 index). This is the book's estimate, not an ILO figure: the index's occupation gradients weighted by labour-force survey employment in two-digit occupation groups, 2025. Beside the bar, never inside it: it is a share, not a growth rate.
Population path
- Population, 2024130 thousand
- Population, 2050142 thousand
- Population, 2100116 thousand
- Median age34.0 years
- Total fertility rate2.11 births per woman
- Dependency ratio39.8 per 100 of working age
Output
Levels are the IMF’s April 2026 estimates for 2025, with the World Bank’s most recent published year standing in where the IMF publishes no figure for this country. Observed growth is over the same window as the identity above, and the forecast runs five years out.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| GDP | $2.3bn |
| GDP per capita | $18,479 |
| GDP at PPP | $4.4bn |
| Observed GDP growth | +4.36% |
| GDP growth, five-year forecast | +3.08% |
| Urban share | 45.5% |
| Informal employment share | 14.2% |
| Largest city | Victoria |
| Largest city population | 78 thousand |
| Largest city population, 2050 | 77 thousand |
External debt
- Multilateralnot yet fetched
- Other bilateralnot yet fetched
- Other privatenot yet fetched
- Eurobonds, of which bonds, inside other privatenot yet fetched
- Paris Club, of which owed to Paris Club members, across all threenot yet fetched
- China, of which owed to China, across all threenot yet fetched
- Total external debt stocknot yet fetched
- IDS 2025, owed to Chinanot yet fetched
- BU CLA, cumulative commitments$0.0bn
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Debt service due 2026-2030 | not yet fetched |
| Eurobonds outstanding | not yet fetched |
| Restructuring status | none |
| Collateralized or resource-backed debt | not yet fetched |
| S&P rating | not yet fetched |
| Moody's rating | not yet fetched |
| Fitch rating | not yet fetched |
Exports and the balance sheet
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Top three exports | Fish, aqua. invertebrates, prepared, preserved, n.e.s. (SITC 037): 40.4%; Fish, fresh (live or dead), chilled or frozen (SITC 034): 26.0%; Petroleum oils or bituminous minerals > 70 % oil (SITC 334): 19.7% |
| Commodity dependence | 94.1% |
| Remittances received | $0.0bn |
| Foreign direct investment | $0.2bn |
| Official development assistance | $0.0bn |
| AfCFTA status | ratified |
| PAPSS member | no |
| Afrobarometer lived poverty index | 0.36 |
Data quality
Last census 2022. Last GDP rebase not recorded. Last labour-force survey 2024. SPI 64.5. Reports to the IMF under SDDS. Confidence: medium.The rule: high means a census within fifteen years, an SPI score of 70 or better and a labour-force survey within five years; one failure is medium, two or more failures or a census before 2000 is low, and the flag is left uncomputed when one of the three inputs is itself missing (the rule, and the reasons to argue with it, on the About the data page).
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| WPP estimate basis | not recorded |
| Climate vulnerability | low |
| Fragility | not on the FCS list |
Census: 2022 Population and Housing Census, provisional results report, NBS Seychelles. LFS: Labour Force Survey 2024 in the ILO survey catalogue; the NBS has run an LFS on roughly a five-year cycle since 1985. Standard: Seychelles has SDDS DQAF metadata pages on the DSBB; the subscription year was not sourced. Rebase: not sourced.
The shelf
The latest reports on this country from the Fund and the Bank. Each line under “what it argued” is the publisher's own summary, quoted, not a paraphrase; where a summary says nothing the line is blank. A country with no Article IV consultation in the last three years says so, with the report that establishes it.
| Report | What it argued |
|---|---|
| IMF Article IV2026 Article IV Consultation, Fifth and Sixth Reviews Under the Arrangement Under the Extended Fund…Ch. 21 | “This paper presents Seychelles’ 2026 Article IV Consultation, Fifth and Sixth Reviews under the Arrangements under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) and the Arrangements under the Resilience and Sustainability Facility, and Request for a Waiver for Nonobservance of a Performance Criterion.”IMF, abstract of Country Report No. 2026/122 |
Sources
Numbers on this card were last refreshed on 25 October 2026.
| Release behind this card | Last pulled |
|---|---|
| African Union AfCFTA signature and ratification register | 25 October 2026 |
| Africapolis 2025 | 25 October 2026 |
| Afrobarometer Round 9 lived-poverty index | 25 October 2026 |
| Boston University Chinese Loans to Africa database, 2000-2024 | 25 October 2026 |
| ILO modelled estimates, November 2025 | 25 October 2026 |
| IMF World Economic Outlook, April 2026 | 13 September 2026 |
| ND-GAIN Country Index, 2026 release | 25 October 2026 |
| PAPSS Payments Network Coverage sheet | 25 October 2026 |
| UN World Population Prospects 2024, medium variant | Not recorded |
| UNCTADstat merchandise trade matrix | 25 October 2026 |
| World Bank Group FY26 list of fragile and conflict-affected situations | 25 October 2026 |
| World Bank Statistical Performance Indicators | 25 October 2026 |
| World Bank World Development Indicators | 25 October 2026 |
| World Bank World Development Indicators, cross-border flows | 25 October 2026 |
| hand-entered | Not pulled |
| Field on this page | Where the number comes from |
|---|---|
| AfCFTA status | African Union AfCFTA signature and ratification register (22/05/2026) |
| Afrobarometer lived poverty index | Afrobarometer Round 9 lived-poverty index, 2022 observation |
| Chinese loan commitments, cumulative | Boston University Chinese Loans to Africa database, 2000-2024 |
| Climate vulnerability | ND-GAIN Country Index, 2026 release, 2024 observation |
| Commodity dependence | UNCTADstat merchandise trade matrix, 2025 observation |
| Dependency ratio | UN World Population Prospects 2024, medium variant |
| Foreign direct investment | World Bank World Development Indicators, cross-border flows, 2025 observation |
| Fragility | World Bank Group FY26 list of fragile and conflict-affected situations |
| GDP | IMF World Economic Outlook, April 2026, 2025 observation |
| GDP at PPP | IMF World Economic Outlook, April 2026, 2025 observation |
| GDP growth, five-year forecast | IMF World Economic Outlook, April 2026, 2030 observation |
| GDP per capita | IMF World Economic Outlook, April 2026, 2025 observation |
| Identity window | UN World Population Prospects 2024, medium variant |
| IMF dissemination standard | Hand-entered, cited to dsbb.imf.org/sdds/dqaf-base/country/SYC/category/… |
| Informal employment share | ILO modelled estimates, November 2025, 2024 observation |
| Largest city | Africapolis 2025, 2025 observation |
| Largest city population | Africapolis 2025, 2025 observation |
| Largest city population, 2050 | Africapolis 2025, 2050 observation |
| Last census | Hand-entered, cited to www.nbs.gov.sc/downloads/1308-seychelles-populati… |
| Last labour-force survey | Hand-entered, cited to www.ilo.org/surveyLib/index.php/catalog/8844 |
| Median age | UN World Population Prospects 2024, medium variant |
| Observed GDP growth | IMF World Economic Outlook, April 2026, 2024 observation |
| Official development assistance | World Bank World Development Indicators, cross-border flows, 2017 observation |
| PAPSS member | PAPSS Payments Network Coverage sheet (June 2026) |
| Population, 2024 | UN World Population Prospects 2024, medium variant |
| Population, 2050 | UN World Population Prospects 2024, medium variant |
| Population, 2100 | UN World Population Prospects 2024, medium variant |
| Remittances received | World Bank World Development Indicators, cross-border flows, 2025 observation |
| Restructuring status | Hand-entered, cited to clubdeparis.org/en/sites/clubdeparis/accueil/pays… |
| Statistical Performance Indicators score | World Bank Statistical Performance Indicators |
| Top three exports | UNCTADstat merchandise trade matrix, 2025 observation |
| Total fertility rate | UN World Population Prospects 2024, medium variant |
| Urban share | World Bank World Development Indicators, 2025 observation |
| Working-age population growth (15-64) | UN World Population Prospects 2024, medium variant |
| Youth not in employment, education or training | ILO modelled estimates, November 2025, 2024 observation |
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