Seychelles SC
Sub-Saharan Africa · High income · capital Victoria
- Population
- 122,730
- 2025
- GDP
- $2.4 billion
- 2025
- Life expectancy
- 76.3 y
- 2024
Geospatial extent
Bounding box 46.21°–56.29° E, -9.76°–-3.79° N · centroid -6.77, 51.25 · source natural-earth-1:110m
Map © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Extent only; no cadastre or address data.
Top research institutions
- Indian Ocean Tuna Commission — 655 works · ROR · site
- Ministry of Health — 429 works · ROR · site
- University of Seychelles — 326 works · ROR · site
- Seychelles Fishing Authority — 185 works · ROR · site
- Island Conservation Society — 107 works · ROR · site
OpenAlex works counts; not a quality ranking.
Legal system
mixed system of English common law, French civil law, and customary law
CIA World Factbook (factbook.json)
Measured indicators
| indicator | value | year | source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural land (% of land) | 3.4 | 2024 | World Bank |
| Air passengers carried | 236,917.0 | 2023 | World Bank |
| Arms imports (SIPRI TIV) | 19,000,000.0 | 2021 | World Bank |
| basic_water_pct | 97.7 | 2024 | World Bank |
| Access to electricity (%) | 100.0 | 2024 | World Bank |
| Foreign direct investment (% of GDP) | 10.0 | 2025 | World Bank |
| fixed_broadband_per_100 | 31.6 | 2024 | World Bank |
| Forest area (% of land) | 58.5 | 2024 | World Bank |
| GDP per capita (current US$) | 19,449.4 | 2025 | World Bank |
| Current health expenditure (% of GDP) | 4.5 | 2023 | World Bank |
| Intentional homicides per 100,000 | 8.0 | 2022 | World Bank |
| idps_by_origin | 0.0 | 2024 | UNHCR |
| Individuals using the internet (%) | 87.8 | 2024 | World Bank |
| military_expenditure_pct_gdp | 1.2 | 2025 | World Bank |
| Net migration | 1,590.0 | 2025 | World Bank |
| New limited-liability companies registered | 370.0 | 2024 | World Bank |
| Patent applications, non-residents | 14.0 | 2023 | World Bank |
| Patent applications, residents | 1.0 | 2023 | World Bank |
| primary_enrollment_pct | 93.4 | 2024 | World Bank |
| Prison population rate per 100,000 | 392.0 | 2025 | World Prison Brief / OWID |
| refugees_by_origin | 10.0 | 2024 | UNHCR |
| Personal remittances received (% of GDP) | 0.5 | 2025 | World Bank |
| Research institutions indexed (OpenAlex) | 7.0 | 2026-10-14 | OpenAlex |
| Scholarly works since 2021 (OpenAlex) | 424.0 | 2021– | OpenAlex |
| Safely managed drinking water (%) | 64.7 | 2024 | World Bank |
| secondary_enrollment_pct | 70.8 | 2024 | World Bank |
| Tertiary enrolment (% gross) | 14.5 | 2024 | World Bank |
| International tourist arrivals | 124,500.0 | 2020 | World Bank |
| Trade (% of GDP) | 172.3 | 2025 | World Bank |
| Undernourishment (%) | 2.5 | 2024 | World Bank |
| Urban population (%) | 45.5 | 2025 | World Bank |
Lane coverage
| lane | status | what exists |
|---|---|---|
| patents | YELLOW · partial | patent application counts (residents + non-residents) from the World Bank/WIPO series; patent documents are not ingested source |
| legal | YELLOW · partial | legal-system description (CIA World Factbook, public domain); no statutes, gazettes or case law ingested, and Factbook recency is not guaranteed source |
| alerts | YELLOW · partial | global GDACS/USGS feeds are live; no active event currently names this country (not an all-clear) source |
| defense | GREEN · ingested | military expenditure (% of GDP), SIPRI series via World Bank; not procurement, capabilities or intent source |
| space | YELLOW · partial | global launch feed is live; 0 launches from pads here in the current bounded window source |
| maps | YELLOW · partial | Natural Earth 1:10m public-domain boundary (extent + centroid); no cadastre, address data or navigation map source |
| passport | GLOBAL · service live | pass.go-v.org is live; per-country identity documents are NOT ingested source |
| research | GREEN · ingested | 424 scholarly works since 2021 with authoring institutions here (OpenAlex); a publication index, not a quality ranking source |
| economy | GREEN · ingested | GDP per capita, current US$ (World Bank); not a cost-of-living or inequality measure source |
| health | GREEN · ingested | life expectancy at birth, World Bank; not a health system performance rating source |
| education | YELLOW · partial | primary school enrolment (% gross), World Bank; tertiary data is shown when available source |
| energy | GREEN · ingested | access to electricity (% of population), World Bank source |
| water | YELLOW · partial | at least basic drinking water (% of population), World Bank/WHO; safely managed data shown when available source |
| connectivity | YELLOW · partial | fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people, World Bank/ITU; internet-user share shown when available source |
| crime | GREEN · ingested | intentional homicides per 100,000 people (UNODC series via World Bank); recorded homicides only source |
| conflict | YELLOW · partial | 10 refugees and 0 IDPs by country of origin (UNHCR 2024); a displacement measure, not battle events source |
| business | YELLOW · partial | newly registered limited-liability companies (World Bank/IC.BUS.NREG); not a company register source |
| science | GREEN · ingested | 7 research institutions indexed by OpenAlex; an institutional index, not a lab-certification register source |
| prison | GREEN · ingested | prison population rate 392 per 100,000 (World Prison Brief via Our World in Data, 2025); not a prison conditions assessment source |
| interpol | GREY · source has no observation | Interpol public notices are not ingested: the public API returns 403 to this host and its terms do not grant bulk reuse source |
| arms | YELLOW · partial | SIPRI arms-transfer trend indicator values (imports and exports) via the World Bank; TIV is a trend measure, not currency source |
| sanctions | GREEN · ingested | 0 designations naming this country in the ingested OFAC SDN and UN Security Council consolidated lists; a measured zero, not a claim of no illicit activity source |
| agriculture | GREEN · ingested | agricultural land (% of land area), World Bank/FAO source |
| food | YELLOW · partial | prevalence of undernourishment (%), World Bank/FAO; a modelled estimate, not a survey of every household source |
| labor | GREY · source has no observation | no ILO unemployment estimate for this economy source |
| finance | GREY · source has no observation | no Findex account-ownership observation for this economy source |
| environment | GREEN · ingested | forest area (% of land area), World Bank/FAO source |
| trade | GREEN · ingested | trade (% of GDP), World Bank source |
| migration | YELLOW · partial | net migration (5-year estimate), World Bank/UN source |
| tourism | YELLOW · partial | international tourist arrivals, World Bank/UNWTO source |
| housing | YELLOW · partial | urban population (% of total), World Bank; not a housing-cost or tenure measure source |
| transport | YELLOW · partial | air passengers carried, World Bank/ICAO; one mode only source |
| investment | GREEN · ingested | Foreign direct investment, net inflows (% of GDP) (World Bank, 2025) source |
| remittances | GREEN · ingested | Personal remittances received (% of GDP) (World Bank, 2025) source |
| health_finance | YELLOW · partial | Current health expenditure (% of GDP) (World Bank, 2023) source |
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Cite this page
Seychelles (SC). go-v.org estate, http://116.202.234.183:9081/sc. Data: World Bank Open Data, OpenAlex, WIPO, Natural Earth, OpenStreetMap. Accessed 2026-10-25.