Corrections
A reference earns trust by how it handles being wrong. Here is our promise, and the public record.
Report an error to hello@seychellesabroad.org. If we got a fact wrong, we correct the page within days, note the change in the page's history, and log the correction here in public, permanently. Errors are inevitable. Hiding them is a choice we refuse.
The policy
A material error, a wrong fact, a wrong name, a wrong number, a wrong legal statement, gets corrected on the page as soon as we verify it, normally within a few days of a report. The correction is recorded in the log below with the date, the page, what was wrong and what it was changed to. We do not silently rewrite history.
A minor slip, a typo, a broken link, a formatting fault, is simply fixed. The log is for substance.
If a correction affects something you may have acted on, a legal requirement, a fee, a procedure, we state the practical consequence in the log entry, not just the change.
How to report
Email hello@seychellesabroad.org with the page address and what you believe is wrong. If you can point to a source, even better, but a plain "this is not right, I know because…" is enough for us to investigate. Corrections from the diaspora are a gift. Many of you hold ground truth no document does.
The log
15 July 2026 — the diaspora headline figure
What was wrong. Across the site, including the homepage, we stated that 36,788 Seychellois live abroad, 37.4% of the nation, attributed to UN DESA 2020 data.
What is right. When we built the Diaspora Atlas we downloaded the UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024 workbooks and extracted the Seychelles figures directly. The current UN revision counts about 22,000 Seychelles-born people abroad (21,722 in 2020, 22,191 in 2024), not 36,788. We could not reproduce 36,788 from the current primary source. It appears to come from an older revision or the World Bank bilateral matrix, both of which also carry a large and almost certainly artificial "Seychelles-born in Mozambique" figure.
What we changed. The homepage, the atlas, the history page and our machine-readable files now lead with the UN DESA 2024 figure and link to a full, sourced explanation at how many Seychellois live abroad. We retired the unqualified "a third of the nation" claim, because the counted emigrant stock is closer to a fifth and the wider diaspora, though likely larger, is genuinely uncounted.
Why it matters. People quote our numbers. Leading with a figure we cannot trace to the current primary source would fail the standard this whole site is built on. Finding and fixing this was the first real test of our own method, and we would rather show the correction than bury it.