Where you could be born / Africa / Eastern Africa
Born in Seychelles
About 1 in 77,712 people born in 2023 started life in Seychelles. A boy can expect to live 70 years and a girl 77, up from 56 and 60 in 1950. Fewer than half of people live in cities, and nearly everyone has basic drinking water.
Life and health
Life lasts about 15 years longer than in 1950. Child deaths fell from 117 in every 1,000 births to 14.
GirlsBoys
Years a baby born that year could expect to live.
In every 1,000 births.
Family
Women had 4.8 children on average in 1950. Now it is 2.1.
Average over a lifetime.
Money and work
If every 100 coins of income were shared out, the richest fifth would hold 39 and the poorest fifth 7.
Daily life
The largest city is Victoria, with 22,881 people.
People on the move
About 17% as many people born here live abroad as live here. The most common destinations are Mozambique, Australia, Italy.
Safety nets
100% of older people receive a pension. Help for someone who loses a job reaches 18%.
Events in the data
The game draws real events from these records, so a life lived here can meet them.
Now live it.
Born in Seychelles, to a family drawn from these numbers. Every life replays exactly from its seed.
Elsewhere in Africa
How to read the sources. Every figure is sourced to a named dataset, shown beside it. A figure marked "Extrapolated" is estimated by a model because no survey covers the year. UN figures are for 2023, the latest year of UN estimates; other figures are the latest year their dataset has. Rank 1 is the highest figure among 230 countries and territories. All sources and licences