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To which language should you translate to localize in the Seychelles?
Introduction
Language
Official languages
Seychellois Creole 89.1%, English 5.1%, French 0.7%,
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0.094%
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Demography
Capital: Victoria
Currency: Seychellois rupee
Population: 99,20 thousands
Population density: 214/km2
Economy
GDP: 1.32 billion USD (2021)
GDP per capita: 13,306.7 USD (2020)
Exports: $1.16 billion (2020)
Statistics
Unemployment rate: 4.3% (2020)
Urbanisation: 56.69% (2018)
Literacy: 96% (2018)
Internet users: 79% penetration, 78.3 thousand
Conventions
Numbering system
Arabic numbering system and dot as decimal separator
Date format: yyyy-mm-dd/ dd-mm-yyyy / mm-dd-yyyy
Time: 24h time system
Country code: 00248
Language data sources: Worldatlas/Britannica//EF/Wikipedia; Demography data sources: IMF/Worldometers; Conventions data source: Wikipedia; Economy data sources: WTO/OEC/CIA/Esomar/Datareportal; Statistics data sources: Datareportal/WorldBank/UN/UNESCO/CEIC/IMF/Culturalatlas/Commisceoglobal
Facts and data
Economy
Imports
Imports $1.58 billion (2020). Recreational Boats ($466M), Refined Petroleum ($179M), Non-fillet Frozen Fish ($141M), Planes, Helicopters, and/or Spacecraft ($123M), and Passenger and Cargo Ships ($28.1M), importing mostly from United Arab Emirates ($283M), British Virgin Islands ($178M), Germany ($134M), Spain ($113M), and Cayman Islands ($111M).
Ease of doing business
It is easy to conduct business (rated 61.7 out of 100) ranked 8th out of 48 Sub-Saharan African countries. 100th out of 190 countries worldwide (2022, World Bank)
Exports
$6.52 billion (2020). Recreational Boats ($445M), Processed Fish ($238M), Non-fillet Frozen Fish ($213M), Refined Petroleum ($119M), and Passenger and Cargo Ships ($24.4M), exporting mostly to Bermuda ($186M), France ($149M), Cayman Islands ($118M), United Kingdom ($95.5M), and Qatar ($79.9M).
Economic freedom
‘Mostly not free’ (rated 61.1 out of 100) Ranked 5th out of 47 African countries Ranked 79th worldwide out of 177 countries (2022, Heritage Foundation and Wall Street Journal)
Economy data sources: WTO/OEC/CIA/Esomar/Datareportal
Service Imports (2018)
Source: OEC
Service Exports (2018)
Source: OEC
Most complex products by PCI Index
Product Complexity Index measures the knowledge intensity of a product by considering the knowledge intensity of its exporters
Source: OEC
Most specialised products by RCA Index
Specialisation is measured using Revealed Comparative Advantage, an index that takes the ratio between the Seychelles observed and expected exports in each product
Source: OEC
Export Opportunities by Relatedness
Relatedness measures the distance between a country's current exports and each product, the barchart show only products that Seychelles is not specialized in
Source: OEC
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Media language Seychellois Creole, English and French
Information channels
The government controls much of the islands’ media and operates radio and TV stations as well as the sole daily newspaper. Private or pro-opposition publications can be robust in their reporting despite tough libel laws. The government seeks to protect the country’s image as a tourist paradise and thus many sensitive subjects are off limits, says Reporters Without Borders. The group says there are few reports of abuses against journalists. BBC World Service (106.2 MHz) and Radio France Internationale are available on FM.
The press
Seychelles Nation – government daily
The People – ruling party weekly
Le Nouveau Seychelles Weekly – opposition
Regar – opposition
Media data source: BBC
Internet Data
Internet users
79% penetration, 78.3 thousand
Share of web traffic by device
46.58% mobile phones, 52.03% computers (laptops and desktops), 1.35% tablet devices, others 0.04%
Median speed of fixed Internet connection
14.62 Mbps
Mobile connection as a percentage of total population: 177.4%
Percentage of mobile connections that are broadband (3G-5G): 78.2%
Most popular web search engines
Google (87.33%), Bing (4.57%), Duckduckgo (2.44%), Naver (1.6%), Yahoo (1.41%), Baidu (1.23%).
Most used social media
Facebook (46.96%), Twitter (15.6%), Instagram (8.98%), Pinterest (8.24%), YouTube (6.22%), Reddit (5.66%)
Internet data sources: Datareportal/Statcounter
Social statistics
Life expectancy
77 yrs (2020)
Healthcare Expenditure
5.2%of GDP (2019)
Urbanisation
56.69% (2019)
Median age of the population
34.2 years
Literacy
96%
Social statistics sources: WorldBank/UN/UNESCO/CEIC/IMF
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Language research
Main language families in the Seychelles
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