We know we inhabit one of the most densely-populated countries in the world. We face a continued increase in population of some 5–7,000 people a year. Over the next ten years, this means an addition close to the size of the total population of the Seychelles.
This increase is arising, not from increasing fertility which has been steadily declining from 2.05 to 1.5 over the last ten years, but rather from our longer life expectancy which has increased by 2 years for both males and females to stand at 69.5 and 76.6, respectively, over the same  4  BIS Review 161/2010  period.