Seychelles

Seychelles: Country Brief

Seychelles carries one of the fuller data profiles in this batch, including governance indicators and a SIPRI military-expenditure estimate.

Economy

Seychelles's gross domestic product was $2,167,239,562.46 in 2024, per the World Bank's World Development Indicators (WDI). GDP per capita was $17,858.82 the same year, also per World Bank WDI. Population stood at 121,354 in 2024, per World Bank WDI. Foreign-exchange reserves were $877,777,949.66 in 2025, per the IMF's International Financial Statistics (IFS). Government debt stood at 55.0% of GDP, per the IMF's World Economic Outlook (WEO), carried for 2026.

Governance

V-Dem v15, for 2025, scores Seychelles at 0.76 on its electoral democracy index and 0.68 on its liberal democracy index. The same source gives Seychelles a state capacity score of 0.976 for 2025.

Security and capability

SIPRI's military-expenditure data puts Seychelles's defense spending at $28,380,338.88 for 2025. Measured against SIPRI's own GDP series rather than the World Bank figure cited above, SIPRI puts this spending at 1.244% of GDP for 2025. The Correlates of War (COW) National Material Capabilities dataset separately records zero active military personnel for Seychelles in 2022, with a Composite Index of National Capability (CINC) score of 3.7123139e-06 for the same year.

Energy

Primary energy consumption was 0.0133 exajoules in 2023, per Our World in Data's energy series. Electricity generation was 0.63 terawatt-hours in 2024, also per Our World in Data. Oil production and gas production were both recorded at 0.0 terawatt-hours in 2016, per the same source.

Data gaps

The COW personnel figure (zero, 2022) sits oddly against SIPRI's 2025 expenditure estimate; the bundle does not reconcile the two series, and this brief does not attempt to. The oil- and gas-production figures date to 2016, the most recent year carried in this series.

Sources: World Bank WDI; IMF WEO; IMF IFS; SIPRI Milex; V-Dem v15; Correlates of War National Material Capabilities; Our World in Data (Energy).