Debt - external:
$213 million (2003 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$16.4 million (1995)
Currency:
Seychelles rupee (SCR)
Currency code:
SCR
Exchange rates:
Seychelles rupees per US dollar - 5.4007 (2003), 5.48 (2002),
5.8575 (2001), 5.7138 (2000), 5.3426 (1999)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Seychelles
Telephones - main lines in use:
21,700 (2002)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
54,500 (2003)
Telephone system:
general assessment: effective system
domestic: radiotelephone communications between islands in the
archipelago
international: country code - 248; direct radiotelephone
communications with adjacent island countries and African coastal
countries; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean)