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Seychelles

122,730

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+1.38K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+51.3%from 81.13K
Life expectancy76.3 years2024
Fertility rate1.85births per woman · 2024
Urban population45.5%2025
RegionSub-Saharan Africa High income

A country at every age

How Seychelles is shaped by age.

Most people are in the working ages, with the younger and older generations shaping what comes next.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1419.8%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6471.5%Working-age population
Ages 65+8.7%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate11.0births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate7.0deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+4.0births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration+1.59Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Seychelles look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 141.75K in 2050—8.7% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 2024130.42K
  2. 2050141.75K
  3. 2100115.96K
Median age in 205042.5years
Births in 20501.53Kduring the year
Deaths in 20501.66Kduring the year
Life expectancy76.9years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 196041.7K
  2. 197053.6K
  3. 198063.26K
  4. 199069.51K
  5. 200081.13K
  6. 201089.77K
  7. 202098.46K
  8. 2025122.73K
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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