Seychelles

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
95,235 1
Urban
56.70% 1
Rural
43.30% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
13.3% 2
Level of Public Corruption
55 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Fertility Rate
2.28 births per adult woman 6
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
1.40% 6
Life Expectancy at Birth
73 years 6
Adult Literacy Rate
93.95% 6
Internet Users
54% 6
Gross National Income per Capita
US$14,100 6
Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
0.4% 6
  • 1 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2018). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 Revision, Online Edition.
  • 2 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Trends in International Migrant Stock: The 2015 revision.
  • 3 United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Homicide Statistics 2015.
  • 4 Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index 2016.
  • 5 World Economic Forum, The Global Gender Gap Report, 2016.
  • 6 UNICEF, State of the World's Children, 2016.

These statistics are derived from the Vatican's official publication, Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022). The numbers may differ from data reported by other sources on this site.

Baptized Catholics
75,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
76.19
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
882
First Communions per Year
973
Confirmations per Year
998
Church Marriages per Year
17
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
16
Priests
28
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
49
Catholics per Priest
2,693
Parishes
20
Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
2