00%
hydro: 0%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (1996)

Electricity--consumption: 125 million kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 0 kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 0 kWh (1996)

Agriculture--products: coconuts, cinnamon, vanilla, sweet
potatoes, cassava (tapioca), bananas; broiler chickens; tuna fish

Exports: $53 million ( f.o.b., 1995)

Exports--commodities: fish, cinnamon bark, copra, petroleum
products (reexports)

Exports--partners: France, UK, China, Germany, Japan (1993)

Imports: $340 million (c.i.f., 1997)

Imports--commodities: manufactured goods, food, petroleum
products, tobacco, beverages, machinery and transportation equipment

Imports--partners: China, Singapore, South Africa, UK (1993)

Debt--external: $170 million (1994 est.)

Economic aid--recipient: $16.4 million (1995)

Currency: 1 Seychelles rupee (SRe) = 100 cents

Exchange rates: Seychelles rupees (SRe) per US$1--5.4540 (January
1999), 5.2622 (1998), 5.0263 (1997), 4.9700 (1996), 4.7620 (1995),
5.0559 (1994)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications

Telephones: 13,000 (1995 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 3, FM 0, shortwave 0

Radios: 50,000 (1996 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 2 (in addition, there are 9
repeaters) (1997)

Televisions: 12,000 (1996 est.)

Transportation

Railways: 0 km

Highways:
total: 280 km
paved: 176 km
unpaved: 104 km (1996 est.)

Ports and harbors: Victoria

Merchant marine: none

Airports: 14 (1998 est.)

Airports--with paved runways:
total: 6
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 3
under 914 m: 2 (1998 est.)

Airports--with unpaved runways:
total: 8
914 to 1,523 m: 4
under 914 m: 4 (1998 est.)

Military

Military branches: Army, Coast Guard, Marines, air wing, National
Guard, Presidential Protection Unit, Police Force

Military manpower--availability:
males age 15-49: 22,420 (1999 est.)

Military manpower--fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 11,242 (1999 est.)

Military expenditures--dollar figure: $13.7 million (1995)

Military expenditures--percent of GDP: NA%

Transnational Issues

Disputes--international: cl