Country or area · Eastern Africa · Africa · UN WPP 2024

Seychelles population

Seychelles population now

135,465

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line. 95% range for 31 December 2026: 133,156–139,144.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 127,950

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 134,955; 95% range, 31 Dec: 133,156–139,144
Median age: 35.6
Aged 65+: 9.0%

Move through time, 1950–2100

2023 | 2024 peak 2042

male female projection · one cell = 20 people

How to read this: one row for each age, newborns at the bottom; men on the left, women on the right.

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries

SYC · 1950–2100 · in brief

Seychelles in numbers

The UN counts 127,950 people in The Seychelles in mid-2023, which makes it the 194th-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports, and less than 0.01% of the world's people. That is 3.3 times its 1950 population of 38,284.

The UN's medium projection has it peaking in 2042 at 143 thousand, then falling to 116 thousand by 2100. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 43,019 to 440 thousand.

Births stay ahead of deaths until 2046; in the medium projection, deaths are ahead every year after it.

The median age was 27.3 in 1950 and 34.7 in 2023; the projection has 46.6 in 2100. 8.3% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 27.5% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is projected to peak in 2030 at 99,036.

By size it is the 194th country in 2023; the projection puts it 194th in 2050 and 196th in 2100. In the medium projection it overtakes Saint Lucia in 2090. It is overtaken by Micronesia in 2070, the Cayman Islands in 2096 and Tonga in 2096.

Population, mid-2023: 127,950
Rank by population, 2023: 194 of 236
Share of the world, 2023: less than 0.01%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +1.93% · +2,427 people
People per km² of land, 2023: 278
Land area, 2023: 460 km²
Births, 2023: 1,744
Deaths, 2023: 1,051
Net migration, 2023: +1,809
Children per woman, 2023: 2.13
Median age, 2023: 34.7 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 72.9 years
In a city, 2025: 0 of every 100
Population, mid-1950: 38,284
Projected, mid-2050: 141,747
Projected, mid-2100: 115,964

SYC · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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estimate projection, up to the bottom of the 95% range 95% range medium projection. Each column is the population on 1 January of one year; the paper rules cut it into equal cells.

Show the numbers: Seychelles, 1950–2100

Seychelles: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
Year	Kind	Population, 1 Jan	95% range	Births	Deaths	Children per woman	Life expectancy
1950	estimate	38,038		1,219	716	4.81	57.8
1951	estimate	38,530		1,246	711	4.84	58.0
1952	estimate	38,836		1,274	697	4.88	58.4
1953	estimate	39,141		1,305	682	4.93	58.7
1954	estimate	39,484		1,349	667	5.02	59.0
1955	estimate	39,877		1,395	649	5.11	59.4
1956	estimate	40,326		1,434	631	5.16	59.8
1957	estimate	40,874		1,470	614	5.20	60.2
1958	estimate	41,482		1,509	598	5.25	60.4
1959	estimate	42,116		1,549	581	5.30	60.4
1960	estimate	42,811		1,577	564	5.31	60.5
1961	estimate	43,649		1,628	558	5.42	60.6
1962	estimate	44,568		1,668	559	5.51	60.7
1963	estimate	45,558		1,705	560	5.61	60.9
1964	estimate	46,592		1,737	562	5.69	61.1
1965	estimate	47,688		1,746	563	5.72	61.4
1966	estimate	48,852		1,871	571	6.13	61.7
1967	estimate	50,059		1,801	566	5.89	62.1
1968	estimate	51,276		1,718	557	5.61	62.6
1969	estimate	52,493		1,682	548	5.48	63.3
1970	estimate	53,670		1,638	538	5.31	64.0
1971	estimate	54,834		1,778	537	5.69	64.6
1972	estimate	56,187		1,664	521	5.16	65.3
1973	estimate	57,591		1,603	509	4.78	65.9
1974	estimate	59,010		1,787	510	5.10	66.4
1975	estimate	60,469		1,747	506	4.75	66.8
1976	estimate	61,966		1,583	501	4.09	67.2
1977	estimate	63,520		1,534	503	3.75	67.6
1978	estimate	64,688		1,687	508	3.92	67.9
1979	estimate	65,285		1,656	507	3.66	68.2
1980	estimate	65,921		1,777	513	3.79	68.5
1981	estimate	66,600		1,779	517	3.67	68.7
1982	estimate	67,299		1,580	516	3.13	69.0
1983	estimate	68,002		1,682	523	3.22	69.3
1984	estimate	68,718		1,756	531	3.24	69.5
1985	estimate	69,448		1,741	539	3.09	69.6
1986	estimate	70,197		1,776	550	3.07	69.8
1987	estimate	70,932		1,733	561	2.92	69.9
1988	estimate	71,743		1,694	569	2.79	70.0
1989	estimate	72,678		1,661	570	2.67	70.1
1990	estimate	73,557		1,652	572	2.61	70.2
1991	estimate	74,409		1,732	576	2.69	70.3
1992	estimate	75,224		1,647	580	2.53	70.3
1993	estimate	76,010		1,704	586	2.58	70.4
1994	estimate	76,808		1,729	592	2.60	70.5
1995	estimate	77,715		1,588	597	2.36	70.6
1996	estimate	78,536		1,570	603	2.31	70.8
1997	estimate	79,228		1,463	616	2.14	70.8
1998	estimate	80,073		1,411	619	2.04	71.1
1999	estimate	81,372		1,438	628	2.04	71.2
2000	estimate	82,670		1,469	638	2.07	71.3
2001	estimate	83,966		1,422	649	1.98	71.4
2002	estimate	85,245		1,463	662	2.03	71.5
2003	estimate	86,469		1,482	672	2.05	71.7
2004	estimate	87,599		1,477	680	2.04	71.7
2005	estimate	88,712		1,583	683	2.18	71.9
2006	estimate	89,820		1,524	689	2.10	72.0
2007	estimate	90,926		1,610	698	2.23	72.2
2008	estimate	92,010		1,675	707	2.32	72.3
2009	estimate	93,085		1,709	719	2.37	72.4
2010	estimate	94,171		1,583	734	2.20	72.5
2011	estimate	95,771		1,709	751	2.37	72.5
2012	estimate	98,277		1,766	767	2.41	72.5
2013	estimate	100,809		1,626	784	2.18	72.4
2014	estimate	103,376		1,632	807	2.16	72.3
2015	estimate	105,933		1,697	833	2.22	72.3
2016	estimate	108,526		1,776	860	2.29	72.3
2017	estimate	111,116		1,809	889	2.31	72.2
2018	estimate	113,737		1,807	923	2.29	72.2
2019	estimate	116,343		1,797	959	2.26	72.1
2020	estimate	118,958		1,779	826	2.23	74.1
2021	estimate	121,624		1,764	1,131	2.20	71.2
2022	estimate	124,351		1,744	1,184	2.17	71.3
2023	estimate	126,694		1,744	1,051	2.13	72.9
2024	estimate	129,207		1,753	1,063	2.11	73.0
2025	projection	131,630	130,793–132,502	1,772	1,076	2.08	73.1
2026	projection	133,927	132,138–135,823	1,786	1,092	2.06	73.3
2027	projection	135,991	133,156–139,144	1,797	1,108	2.04	73.4
2028	projection	137,804	133,810–142,505	1,798	1,126	2.02	73.6
2029	projection	139,237	133,877–145,499	1,791	1,144	2.00	73.7
2030	projection	140,207	133,637–148,064	1,772	1,163	1.98	73.9
2031	projection	140,592	132,647–150,114	1,739	1,180	1.97	74.0
2032	projection	140,964	131,803–152,426	1,710	1,200	1.96	74.2
2033	projection	141,273	130,629–154,690	1,681	1,221	1.94	74.3
2034	projection	141,544	129,632–157,221	1,656	1,244	1.93	74.5
2035	projection	141,784	128,450–160,192	1,634	1,269	1.92	74.6
2036	projection	141,997	127,170–163,053	1,615	1,294	1.91	74.8
2037	projection	142,166	126,091–166,156	1,600	1,321	1.90	74.9
2038	projection	142,310	124,972–168,656	1,586	1,349	1.89	75.1
2039	projection	142,410	123,496–172,071	1,576	1,375	1.89	75.2
2040	projection	142,499	122,300–175,011	1,569	1,402	1.88	75.4
2041	projection	142,589	121,308–178,064	1,565	1,430	1.88	75.5
2042	projection	142,614	120,100–181,522	1,558	1,457	1.87	75.7
2043	projection	142,626	118,833–184,869	1,553	1,485	1.86	75.8
2044	projection	142,610	117,633–188,254	1,547	1,512	1.86	76.0
2045	projection	142,554	116,479–191,052	1,544	1,540	1.85	76.1
2046	projection	142,494	115,075–194,310	1,541	1,566	1.85	76.3
2047	projection	142,378	114,060–197,635	1,540	1,592	1.84	76.4
2048	projection	142,234	112,813–201,430	1,537	1,615	1.84	76.6
2049	projection	142,067	111,260–205,196	1,533	1,639	1.84	76.7
2050	projection	141,854	110,094–209,023	1,528	1,660	1.83	76.9
2051	projection	141,639	109,313–213,368	1,522	1,681	1.83	77.0
2052	projection	141,396	108,174–217,078	1,516	1,703	1.82	77.2
2053	projection	141,144	106,663–220,364	1,510	1,722	1.82	77.3
2054	projection	140,881	105,221–223,270	1,503	1,741	1.82	77.5
2055	projection	140,558	103,728–226,507	1,493	1,760	1.81	77.7
2056	projection	140,217	101,365–230,299	1,482	1,777	1.81	77.8
2057	projection	139,855	99,612–234,261	1,471	1,792	1.80	78.0
2058	projection	139,451	97,506–237,736	1,461	1,807	1.80	78.1
2059	projection	139,041	96,627–241,963	1,451	1,822	1.80	78.3
2060	projection	138,602	94,928–244,845	1,439	1,836	1.79	78.4
2061	projection	138,136	93,222–248,958	1,426	1,848	1.79	78.6
2062	projection	137,639	91,968–254,738	1,413	1,860	1.79	78.7
2063	projection	137,122	90,566–258,673	1,400	1,871	1.78	78.9
2064	projection	136,561	88,963–261,908	1,386	1,880	1.78	79.1
2065	projection	135,990	87,564–266,750	1,372	1,890	1.78	79.2
2066	projection	135,393	85,758–272,298	1,362	1,898	1.78	79.4
2067	projection	134,788	84,132–278,462	1,351	1,903	1.77	79.5
2068	projection	134,188	82,403–284,537	1,338	1,911	1.77	79.7
2069	projection	133,570	81,080–286,578	1,329	1,915	1.77	79.8
2070	projection	132,959	79,738–291,282	1,320	1,918	1.76	80.0
2071	projection	132,309	78,414–295,368	1,312	1,917	1.76	80.2
2072	projection	131,660	76,658–301,343	1,304	1,916	1.76	80.3
2073	projection	131,008	75,112–305,245	1,297	1,913	1.76	80.5
2074	projection	130,343	73,222–311,158	1,290	1,907	1.76	80.6
2075	projection	129,681	71,665–315,270	1,283	1,899	1.76	80.8
2076	projection	129,007	70,132–317,614	1,277	1,890	1.75	80.9
2077	projection	128,346	68,671–320,880	1,271	1,878	1.75	81.1
2078	projection	127,671	66,922–324,792	1,264	1,866	1.75	81.2
2079	projection	126,997	65,222–326,122	1,258	1,851	1.75	81.4
2080	projection	126,340	64,408–331,434	1,249	1,833	1.75	81.5
2081	projection	125,686	63,439–336,448	1,242	1,815	1.74	81.7
2082	projection	125,059	62,532–341,950	1,236	1,795	1.74	81.8
2083	projection	124,436	61,286–344,321	1,229	1,774	1.74	82.0
2084	projection	123,837	60,097–348,828	1,222	1,750	1.74	82.1
2085	projection	123,259	59,484–355,528	1,216	1,726	1.74	82.3
2086	projection	122,685	58,134–360,993	1,208	1,701	1.74	82.4
2087	projection	122,142	56,842–368,038	1,201	1,677	1.74	82.6
2088	projection	121,602	55,959–375,405	1,192	1,655	1.74	82.7
2089	projection	121,110	54,912–379,615	1,184	1,630	1.74	82.8
2090	projection	120,606	54,025–385,532	1,176	1,604	1.74	83.0
2091	projection	120,146	52,707–389,249	1,168	1,583	1.74	83.1
2092	projection	119,679	51,183–397,994	1,158	1,562	1.73	83.2
2093	projection	119,221	49,746–404,159	1,149	1,542	1.73	83.4
2094	projection	118,780	48,576–410,785	1,139	1,525	1.73	83.5
2095	projection	118,329	47,692–418,786	1,130	1,508	1.73	83.6
2096	projection	117,882	46,689–426,003	1,120	1,494	1.73	83.8
2097	projection	117,451	45,848–429,069	1,109	1,482	1.72	83.9
2098	projection	117,026	44,967–429,671	1,101	1,472	1.72	84.0
2099	projection	116,597	44,150–434,287	1,094	1,465	1.73	84.1
2100	projection	116,171	43,019–440,397	1,086	1,459	1.72	84.3

Show the numbers: Seychelles, mid-2026, by single year of age

Seychelles: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	904	873
1	901	870
2	900	869
3	905	874
4	940	895
5	942	893
6	910	870
7	908	863
8	911	860
9	909	855
10	897	842
11	885	831
12	881	831
13	878	835
14	870	839
15	857	841
16	841	838
17	833	826
18	838	821
19	849	818
20	858	806
21	866	807
22	884	816
23	921	814
24	981	808
25	1,062	835
26	1,140	863
27	1,188	836
28	1,252	849
29	1,346	926
30	1,414	958
31	1,463	964
32	1,501	1,014
33	1,518	1,016
34	1,521	955
35	1,518	955
36	1,518	968
37	1,542	936
38	1,550	922
39	1,538	911
40	1,529	894
41	1,486	886
42	1,416	846
43	1,380	806
44	1,344	842
45	1,294	891
46	1,270	884
47	1,228	853
48	1,134	814
49	1,054	788
50	1,037	782
51	1,019	792
52	971	776
53	941	738
54	930	742
55	885	723
56	839	710
57	769	740
58	714	743
59	720	732
60	697	716
61	663	684
62	654	676
63	615	668
64	562	615
65	535	560
66	512	519
67	516	504
68	520	494
69	478	469
70	404	410
71	347	343
72	306	310
73	261	288
74	238	255
75	226	234
76	200	228
77	172	216
78	152	192
79	128	169
80	106	154
81	93	140
82	85	123
83	77	111
84	64	108
85	50	100
86	40	93
87	34	84
88	26	67
89	21	56
90	18	48
91	16	44
92	12	37
93	8	27
94	6	21
95	4	16
96	4	10
97	3	8
98	2	6
99	1	4
100+	0	7

SYC · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Seychelles, every age in every year

Each column is a year and each row an age; the denser the ink in a cell, the more people. Everyone born in the same year climbs one 45° diagonal, so famines, baby booms and migration show up as streaks. Select a cell to follow its generation.

SYC · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Seychelles

On the UN's projection, the Seychelles will have the most working-age people it ever has in 2030: 99,037 people aged 15–64. In 2023 it had 91,522.

100 aged 15–64

28 children

12 aged 65+

aged 15–64 children under 15 aged 65 and over

How to read this: take 100 people of working age — the orange row — and the two rows under it are the children (teal) and the people of 65 and over (violet) who lived alongside them in 2023.

Fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 in 42 years: 2004–2045.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100 the same, projected 50 or more

How to read this: 1950 on the left, 2100 on the right; coloured in the years with fewer than 50 dependants per 100 working-age people, grey in the rest, hatched where that is a projection.

How every country compares

SYC · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Seychelles, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 the Seychelles gains 1,819 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 25–29, at 341 a year more arriving than leaving.

one square = 50 people a year

020406080+

more arrive than leave more leave than arrive

How to read this: age runs left to right, babies to 100. A blue square above the line means arrivals outnumber departures at that age, an orange square below it means the opposite. The figures are the UN's projection for 2020–2025; nobody recorded migration by age before 2020.

In the years that were counted, 1950–2023, the most it gained in one year was 2,086 (2021) and the most it lost was 587 (1978).

In 2024, 13,261 people living in the Seychelles had been born in another country, 10 of every 100 people there, against 5 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

SYC · births by the mother's age · 1950–2100

Who has the babies in Seychelles

Of every 100 babies born in the Seychelles in 2023, 12 had a mother under 20, 72 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 16 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 7 under 20 and 19 aged 35 or older.

1950
7 · 74 · 19

2023
12 · 72 · 16

2050 · projected
10 · 73 · 17

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: one block a year, 100 squares in each, a square for every hundredth baby. The colour is the mother's age group, and the three numbers underneath are those groups in order, youngest first.

Babies born, 2023: 1,744
Average age when women have a baby: 27.6 years; 29.5 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 55; 51 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in the Seychelles by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	2	4	4	5	4	1
15–19	83	362	207	207	146	38
20–24	321	504	418	403	379	166
25–29	333	349	374	474	386	281
30–34	245	257	283	381	358	347
35–39	163	192	153	212	187	190
40–44	64	72	30	59	57	53
45–49	8	7	0	3	11	10
50–54	0	0	0	0	0	0
All babies	1,219	1,747	1,469	1,744	1,528	1,086

The UN's births for each year, split by the mother's age in the UN's own proportions.

SYC · healthy years · 2021

Years in good health in Seychelles

In the Seychelles, WHO puts the healthy years a newborn could expect in 2021 at 64.7 (95% range 64.0–65.5), out of 74.0 in all. That leaves 9.3 years in less than full health, close to the world's 9.5.

Women

65.2 in full health, 10.4 not: 75.6 years

Men

64.3 in full health, 8.3 not: 72.6 years

a year in full health a year in less than full health

How to read this: each square is a year of life, each row ten years; filled squares are years in full health, rounded to whole years.

Women: 65.2 healthy years of 75.6. Men: 64.3 of 72.6.

SYC · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Seychelles

UNHCR publishes no refugees, asylum-seekers or displaced people in or from the Seychelles at the end of 2025.

An empty row is not the same as a zero. These figures cover the people one agency works with, so a country it has no operation in has nothing to report here.

In 2025, 10 people from the Seychelles asked for asylum in another country. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

SYC · of every 100 people

How people live in Seychelles

Of every 100 people in the Seychelles in 2025, 80 lived in a town or suburb and 20 in the countryside.

towns and suburbs rural areas

Nearly everyone has electricity at home (2024). 12.2 of every 100 do not use the internet (2024).

How to read this: everyone here, shrunk to 100 squares, with the colour saying whether that hundredth person lives in a city, a town or the countryside. Every country is measured by the same rule.

How the world's people live

SYC · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in Seychelles went in school

Of every 100 adults in the Seychelles in 2020, 2 never went to school and 57 finished upper secondary or went further.

2 never went to school 5 some primary 22 finished primary 14 finished lower secondary 37 finished upper secondary 20 studied after school

Among women, 0.7 of every 100 aged 25–29 never went to school, against 3.4 of every 100 aged 60–64; among men, 0.7 against 3.7.

The middle projection has its working-age people most numerous in 2040; those among them who finished upper secondary are most numerous later, in 2070.

How to read this: every adult here as one of 100 squares. The stronger the colour, the further that person went in school (the Wittgenstein Centre, 2020).

How far the world's people went in school

SYC · cities · 2025

Cities in Seychelles

No place in the Seychelles is big and dense enough to count as a city under the UN's rule — at least 50,000 people, living 1,500 or more to the square kilometre.

All the world's cities

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual country tables (estimates to 2023, projections with 95% intervals from 2024), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

The censuses, surveys and registers behind the UN's estimates for the Seychelles are listed, source by source, on the UN's own data sources page.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · World Bank · UNHCR · country code lists · UN WUP 2025 · Wittgenstein Centre · WHO GHO · flag-icons · Natural Earth. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

Checked before it was drawn

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries The pyramid for every year was checked against the published total. What that stamp counts, and what every page here has to pass before it can be built: how this site checks its figures.