rate: -2% (1993 est.)

GDP per capita: $6,000 (1993 est.)

GDP composition by sector:
agriculture: NA%
industry: NA%
services: NA%

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3.9% (1993 est.)

Labor force: 27,700 (1985)
by occupation: industry and commerce 31%, services 21%, government
20%, agriculture, forestry, and fishing 12%, other 16% (1985)

Unemployment rate: 9% (1987)

Budget:
revenues: $227.4 million
expenditures: $263 million, including capital expenditures of $54
million (1993 est.)

Industries: tourism, processing of coconut and vanilla, fishing,
coir (coconut fiber) rope factory, boat building, printing,
furniture, beverage

Industrial production growth rate: 4% (1992)

Electricity:
capacity: 30,000 kW
production: 110 million kWh
consumption per capita: 1,399 kWh (1993)

Agriculture: coconuts, cinnamon, vanilla, sweet potatoes, cassava
(tapioca), bananas; broiler chickens; expansion of tuna fishing
under way

Exports: $50 million (f.o.b., 1993 est.)
commodities: fish, cinnamon bark, copra, petroleum products
(re-exports)
partners: France 43%, UK 22%, Reunion 11%, (1992)

Imports: $261 million (f.o.b., 1993 est.)
commodities: manufactured goods, food, petroleum products, tobacco,
beverages, machinery and transportation equipment
partners: Singapore 16%, Bahrain 16%, South Africa, 14%, UK 13%
(1992)

External debt: $181 million (1993 est.)

Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $NA

Currency: 1 Seychelles rupee (SRe) = 100 cents

Exchange rates: Seychelles rupees (SRe) per US$1 - 4.9257 (January
1996), 4.7620 (1995), 5.0559 (1994), 5.1815 (1993), 5.1220 (1992),
5.2893 (1991)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Transportation
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Railways: 0 km

Highways:
total: 269 km
paved: 187 km
unpaved: 82 km (1988 est.)

Ports: Victoria

Merchant marine: none

Airports:
total: 14
with paved runways 2 438 to 3 047 m: 1
with paved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 5
with paved runways under 914 m: 6
with unpaved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 2 (1995 est.)

Communications
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Telephones: 8,300 (1982 est.)

Telephone system:
domestic: radiotelephone communications between islands in the
archipelago
international: direct radiotelephone communications with adjacent
island countries and African coastal countries; satellite earth
station - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 2, FM