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Economy
Overview: In this small, open tropical island economy, the
tourist industry employs about 30% of the labor force and
provides the main source of hard currency earnings. In recent
years the government has encouraged foreign investment in
order to upgrade hotels and other services. At the same
time, the government has moved to reduce the high dependence
on tourism by promoting the development of farming, fishing,
and small-scale manufacturing.
GDP: $255 million, per capita $3,720; real growth rate 6.2%;
(1988 est.).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.3% (1988).
Unemployment rate: 15% (1986).
Budget: revenues $106 million; expenditures $130 million,
including capital expenditures of $21 million (1987).
Exports: $17 million (f.o.b., 1988 est.); commodities--fish,
copra, cinnamon bark, petroleum products (reexports); partners--
France 63%, Pakistan 12%, Reunion 10%, UK 7% (1987).
Imports: $116 million (f.o.b., 1988 est.); commodities--manufactured
goods, food, tobacco, beverages, machinery and transportation
equipment, petroleum products; partners--UK 20%, France 14%,
South Africa 13%, PDRY 13%, Singapore 8%, Japan 6% (1987).
External debt: $178 million (December 1988).
Industrial production: growth rate 7% (1987).
Electricity: 25,000 kW capacity; 67 million kWh produced,
960 kWh per capita (1989).
Industries: tourism, processing of coconut and vanilla, fishing,
coir rope factory, boat building, printing, furniture, beverage.
Agriculture: accounts for 7% of GDP, mostly subsistence
farming; cash crops--coconuts, cinnamon, vanilla; other
products--sweet potatoes, cassava, bananas; broiler chickens;
large share of food needs imported; expansion of tuna fishing
under way.
Aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY78-88), $23 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1978-87), $297 million; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $5
million; Communist countries (1970-88), $56 million.
Currency: Seychelles rupee (plural--rupees); 1 Seychelles
rupee (SRe) = 100 cents.
Exchange rates: Seychelles rupees (SR) per US$1--5.4884
(January 1990), 5.6457 (1989), 5.3836 (1988), 5.6000 (1987),
6.1768 (1986), 7.1343 (1985).
Fiscal year: calendar year.