Coconut on Seychelles beach

An archipelago consisting of 115 islands located in the Indian Ocean off Africa’s eastern coast, the Republic of Seychelles shipped US$587 million worth of exported products around the world in 2025.

That dollar amount results from a 44.2% advance from $407.2 million 5 years earlier in 2021, and a -1.3% year-over-year slowdown compared to $594.5 million starting from 2024.

Seychelles’ top 3 most valuable exported products are preserved or prepared fish including caviar, processed petroleum oils and frozen whole fish. Collectively, that trio of major exports represents 89.2% of the overall value of goods exported from Seychelles during 2025. Such a high percentage indicates Seychelles’ intensely concentrated portfolio of export goods.

The latest available country-specific data shows that 88.7% of products exported from Seychelles was bought by importers in: United Arab Emirates (32% of the Seychellois total), France (15.7%), Germany (8.9%), United Kingdom (7.7%), Italy (7.1%), Spain (4.1%), Thailand (2.9%), Netherlands (2.8%), Mauritius (2.5%), Ivory Coast (2.3%), Hong Kong (1.4%) and Türkiye (1.3%).

From a continental perspective, 48.8% of Seychelles’ exports by value was delivered to European countries while 42.5% was sold to importers in Asia.

Seychelles shipped another 7.2% worth of goods to buyers in Africa.

Tinier percentages went to customers in Latin America (0.54%) excluding Mexico but including the Caribbean, North America (0.52%) then Oceania’s Australia and New Zealand (0.35%).

Given Seychelles’ population of 102,000 people, its total US$587 million in 2025 exports translates to roughly $5,750 for every resident in the East African archipelago. That dollar metric exceeds the average $5,500 per capita one year earlier during 2024.

Seychelles ’s top 10 export product categories generated 98.4% of the overall value of its global shipments.

Ships and boats represent the fastest grower among the top 10 export categories, up by 4,631% since 2024.

In second place for improving export sales was the fish grouping which was up by 346%.

Seychelles ‘s shipments of machinery including computers posted the third-fastest gain, in value up by 136.5% year over year.

The leading decliner among Seychelles ‘s top 10 export categories was aircraft and spacecraft which fell -41.4%.

At the more granular four-digit Harmonized Tariff System code level, preserved or prepared fish including caviar represent Seychelles’ most valuable exported product group at 42.7% of the country’s overall total. In second place were processed petroleum oils (29.8%) trailed by frozen whole fish (16.7%), pleasure or sports vessels such as yachts (2.3%), inedible meat flour (1.7%), aluminum scrap (1.3%), aquatic invertebrates (0.9%), machines for dishwashing, cleaning, drying or filling (0.7%), fresh whole fish (0.6%) then fish or marine mammals fats and oils (0.4%).

The following types of product shipments from Seychelles represent positive net exports or a trade balance surplus. Investopedia defines net exports as the value of a country’s total exports minus the value of its total imports.

In a nutshell, net exports represent the amount by which foreign spending on a home country’s goods or services exceeds or lags the home country’s spending on foreign goods or services.

Seychelles incurred a projected -US$960 million product trade deficit for 2025, expanding by 5.1% compared to the -$913.4 million deficit one year earlier in 2024.

Below are exports from Seychelles that result in negative net exports or product trade balance deficits. These negative net exports reveal product categories where foreign spending on home country Seychelles’ goods trail its importer spending on foreign products.

Wikipedia also lists entities from Seychelles that engage in international trade transactions, either directly or by providing financial services.

Selected examples are shown below.

 
In macroeconomic terms, Seychelles’ total exported goods represent 13.8% of its overall Gross Domestic Product for 2025 ($4.268 billion valued in Purchasing Power Parity US dollars). That 13.8% for exports to overall GDP in PPP for 2025 compares to 14% for 2024. Those percentages indicate a relatively decreasing reliance on products sold on international markets for Seychelles’ total economic performance, albeit based on a short timeframe.

Another key indicator of economic performance is the unemployment rate. Seychelles’ average unemployment rate was 3% for 2025, same as one year earlier according to Trading Economics metrics.

Seychelles’ capital city is Victoria.

See also Top African Export Countries, South Africa’s Top 10 Exports and Ghana’s Top 10 Exports

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Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook Africa: Seychelles. Accessed on November 12, 2026

Forbes Global 2000 rankings, The World’s Biggest Public Companies. Accessed on November 12, 2026

Foreign Trade, United States Census Bureau. Accessed on November 12, 2026

International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook Database (GDP based on Purchasing Power Parity). Accessed on November 12, 2026

International Trade Centre, Trade Map. Accessed on November 12, 2026

Investopedia, Net Exports Definition. Accessed on November 12, 2026

Wikipedia, Gross domestic product. Accessed on November 12, 2026

Wikipedia, List of Companies of Seychelles. Accessed on November 12, 2026

Wikipedia, Purchasing power parity. Accessed on November 12, 2026

Wikipedia, Seychelles. Accessed on November 12, 2026