partners—UK 20%, France 14%, South Africa 13%, PDRY 13%, Singapore 8%, Japan 6% (1987)
_#_External debt: $171 million (1990 est.)
_#_Industrial production: growth rate 7% (1987); accounts for 10% of GDP
_#_Electricity: 25,000 kW capacity; 67 million kWh produced, 960 kWh per capita (1989)
_#_Industries: tourism, processing of coconut and vanilla, fishing, coir rope factory, boat building, printing, furniture, beverage
_#_Agriculture: accounts for 7% of GDP, mostly subsistence farming; cash crops—coconuts, cinnamon, vanilla; other products—sweet potatoes, cassava, bananas; broiler chickens; large share of food needs imported; expansion of tuna fishing under way
_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY78-89), $26 million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1978-88), $310 million; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $5 million; Communist countries (1970-89), $60 million
_#_Currency: Seychelles rupee (plural—rupees); 1 Seychelles rupee (SRe) = 100 cents
_#_Exchange rates: Seychelles rupees (SR) per US$1—5.0878 (January 1991), 5.3369 (1990), 5.6457 (1989), 5.3836 (1988), 5.6000 (1987), 6.1768 (1986), 7.1343 (1985)
_#_Fiscal year: calendar year