Seychelles's final consumption expenditure (annual % growth) was 5.42% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 3.61 percentage points from 1.81% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 5.42% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 1.18% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 1.81% | 2015 |
| Highest | 27.52% | 1990 |
| Lowest | -16.36% | 2000 |
| Average since 2016 | 6.11% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 0.5% | 1981 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Seychelles' final consumption expenditure (annual % growth) fell 6.67 percentage points on 2024 (from 12.09% to 5.42%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +0.8 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 15.69 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.5 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 35.11 percentage points in 2008 and the biggest yearly fall was 35.17 percentage points in 1986. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 16% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2025, Seychelles had the 26th highest value of the 132 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Seychelles | 5.42% | 2025 |
| World | 2.91% | 2024 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 4.29% | 2025 |
| High income | 2.27% | 2024 |
Closest to Seychelles in the 2025 ranking
What this measures
Final consumption expenditure is expenditure on goods and services by resident institutional units for the direct satisfaction of human needs or wants, whether individual or collective. Final consumption expenditure can be measured for households, general government, the central bank and non-profit institutions serving households. This indicator denotes the percentage change over each previous year of the constant price (base year 2015) series in United States dollars.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 45 values
| Year | Final consumption expenditure (annual % growth) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5.42 |
| 2024 | 12.09 |
| 2023 | 0.579 |
| 2022 | -4.57 |
| 2021 | 8.24 |
| 2020 | 1.18 |
| 2019 | 1.84 |
| 2018 | 10.43 |
| 2017 | 7.23 |
| 2016 | 18.66 |
| 2015 |
Final consumption expenditure (annual % growth) in nearby economies
- Angola — 5.48% (2024)
- Benin — 7.27% (2025)
- Botswana — -1.12% (2025)
- Burkina Faso — 2.83% (2025)
- Burundi — 3.44% (2025)
- Cabo Verde — 4.31% (2025)
- Cameroon — 6.02% (2025)
- Central African Republic — 4.26% (2025)
- Chad — 3.72% (2025)
- Comoros
More economic policy & debt data for Seychelles
- GDP (current US$) — US$2.39 billion (2025)
- GDP (current LCU) — 35.15 billion (2025)
- GDP (constant 2015 US$) — US$2.13 billion (2025)
- GDP (constant LCU) — 28.69 billion (2025)
- GDP per capita (current US$) — US$19,449 (2025)
- GDP per capita (current LCU) — 286,401 (2025)
- GDP per capita (constant 2015 US$) — US$17,379 (2025)
- GDP per capita (constant LCU) — 233,724 (2025)
- GNI (current US$) — US$2.33 billion (2025)
- GNI (current LCU) — 34.25 billion (2025)
- GNI per capita (current LCU) — 279,050 (2025)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Seychelles's final consumption expenditure (annual % growth)?
- 5.42% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1981?
- It is up 4.91 percentage points from 0.5% in 1981. The highest value was 27.52% in 1990 and the lowest -16.36% in 2000.
- How does Seychelles rank?
- 26th highest of 132 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in final consumption expenditure (annual % growth) unusual for Seychelles?
- In 2025, Seychelles' final consumption expenditure (annual % growth) fell 6.67 percentage points on 2024 (from 12.09% to 5.42%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +0.8 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 15.69 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.5 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator NE.CON.TOTL.KD.ZG, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks; National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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