Debt - external:
$508 million (2005 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$16.4 million (1995)
Currency (code):
Seychelles rupee (SCR)
Currency code:
SCR
Exchange rates:
Seychelles rupees per US dollar - 5.5 (2005), 5.5 (2004), 5.4007
(2003), 5.48 (2002), 5.8575 (2001)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Seychelles
Telephones - main lines in use:
21,400 (2005)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
57,000 (2005)
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)