This document evaluates Seychelles and Cameroon as potential markets for a new pet business. Seychelles has a higher GDP and literacy rate than Cameroon and would be a better choice to open business. Cameroon could be considered for manufacturing pet items due to its lower costs. Both countries have ports and airports but Cameroon also has railways and roads for transportation.

1. SEYCHELLES AND CAMEROON:
A MARKET EVALUATION
Yiming Kong
7/19/2012

2. Overview
• Summary
• Location
• People and Society
• Economy
• Communication and Transportation
• About Pets

3. Summary
• Seychelles would be a better choice for our pets
company to open business.
• Also, we can choose Cameroon to manufacture
pets’ items.

4. Location
Seychelles Cameroon

5. People and Society
Seychelles Cameroon
• Total population: 90,000 • Total population: 20,129,878
• Unemployment rate: 2% • Unemployment rate: 30%
• Education expenditures: 5% of • Education expenditures: 3.7%
GDP • Literacy rate:75.9%
• Literacy rate:91.84% • HIV: very serious
• HIV: serious

6. Economy
Table 1—Seychelles GDP status in the Table 2—Cameroon GDP status in the
past three years past three years
US Dollar 2009 2010 2011 US Dollar 2009 2010 2011
GDP— 1.938 billion 2.142 billion 2.244 billion GDP— 44.06 billion 45.39 billion 47.12 billion
purchasing purchasing
power parity power parity
GDP—per 22,600 23,800 24,700 GDP—per 2,200 2,200 2,300
capital capital
GDP—real 0.7% 6.3% 5% GDP—real 2% 3.2% 3.8%
growth rate growth rate
Obviously, per capital of GDP of Seychellois is comparative higher than
Cameroonian.
Seychelles’s economy remains stable growth after it suffered a big hit from
2006 to 2009; In contract, the economic conditions are still grim in the
Cameroon with severe corruption problem and a challenging environment for
the foreign investors.

7. Economy
Seychelles Cameroon
Percentage of GDP Percentage of GDP
Composition in 2011 Composition in 2011
Agriculture Agriculture
Industry Industry
Services Services
Seychelles is an import country;
However,
Cameroon’s economy depends on a large amount of exporting
commodities.

8. Communication and transportation
Communication Status in Seychelles Cameroon
2009
Total population 90,000 20,129,878
Telephone lines in use 22,000 496,500
Mobile cellular in use 117,600 10,409,000
Overall status exceeds 150 telephones per 100 less than 50% of population
Table 3—Communication status in both Seychelles and Cameroon connected
persons can be
Internet users 32,000 749,600
Transportation
Main transportation tools are air ports and port in Seychelles;
In the Cameroon, except airports and ports, it has railways and roadways for
transportation.

9. About Pets
Aldabra Giant Tortoise in the
Seychelles Hyacinth macaws in the Cameroon

10. Reference
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• Republic of Cameroon. (2012). In U.S. Department of State. Retrieved from
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/26431.htm
• Seychelles. (2012). In CIA World Factbook. Retrieved from
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/se.html
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