Seychelles's inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth) was 0.3% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 3.74 percentage points from 4.04% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 0.3% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 1.2% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 4.04% | 2015 |
| Highest | 36.96% | 2008 |
| Lowest | -2.4% | 2010 |
| Average since 2016 | 2.05% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 14.6% | 1971 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Seychelles' inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth) fell 0.01 percentage points on 2024 (from 0.31% to 0.3%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.05 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 9.4 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.0 standard deviations above 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 31.64 percentage points in 2008 and the biggest yearly fall was 34.16 percentage points in 2010. 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 1% 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 153rd highest value of the 169 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 | 0.3% | 2025 |
| World | 3.04% | 2025 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 3.4% | 2025 |
| High income | 2.34% | 2025 |
Closest to Seychelles in the 2025 ranking
- Macao SAR, China — 149th of 169: 0.33%
- Finland — 150th of 169: 0.33%
- Iraq — 151st of 169: 0.3%
- El Salvador — 153rd of 169: 0.26%
- Switzerland — 154th of 169: 0.15%
- Cyprus — 155th of 169: 0.13%
What this measures
Inflation as measured by the consumer price index reflects the annual percentage change in the cost to the average consumer of acquiring a basket of goods and services that may be fixed or changed at specified intervals, such as yearly.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a median.
All 55 values
| Year | Inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.2976 |
| 2024 | 0.3117 |
| 2023 | -1.04 |
| 2022 | 2.63 |
| 2021 | 9.77 |
| 2020 | 1.2 |
| 2019 | 1.81 |
| 2018 | 3.7 |
| 2017 | 2.86 |
| 2016 | -1.02 |
| 2015 |
Inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth) in nearby economies
- Angola — 20.16% (2025)
- Benin — 1.1% (2025)
- Botswana — 2.66% (2025)
- Burkina Faso — -0.59% (2025)
- Burundi — 34.13% (2025)
- Cabo Verde — 2.34% (2025)
- Cameroon — 3.4% (2025)
- Central African Republic — 1% (2025)
- Chad — -3.91% (2025)
- Comoros — 3.25% (2025)
More financial sector data for Seychelles
- GDP deflator (base year varies by country) — 122.54 (2025)
- DEC alternative conversion factor (LCU per US$) — US$14.73 (2025)
- Official exchange rate (LCU per US$, period average) — US$14.73 (2025)
- Inflation, GDP deflator (annual % growth) — 2.6% (2025)
- Consumer price index (2010 = 100) — 147.52 (2025)
- Domestic credit to private sector by banks (% of GDP) — 34.46% (2025)
- Net foreign assets (current LCU) — 25.3 billion (2025)
- Broad money (current LCU) — 29.77 billion (2025)
- Broad money (% of GDP) — 84.7% (2025)
- Claims on central government, etc. (% of GDP)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Seychelles's inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth)?
- 0.3% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1971?
- It is down 14.3 percentage points from 14.6% in 1971. The highest value was 36.96% in 2008 and the lowest -2.4% in 2010.
- How does Seychelles rank?
- 153rd highest of 169 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth) unusual for Seychelles?
- In 2025, Seychelles' inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth) fell 0.01 percentage points on 2024 (from 0.31% to 0.3%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.05 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 9.4 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.0 standard deviations above 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 FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: International Financial Statistics database, International Monetary Fund (IMF) 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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