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🇸🇱 Sierra Leone
Republic of Sierra Leone
SLE SL Le Sierra Leonean leone (SLL)
Every statistic we track for Sierra Leone — 132 indicators, each with its latest value and world rank. Open the interactive profile →
$3,909
61.9 yrs
3.25
0.35
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All indicators
📈 Economy
| Account Ownership | 38.6% | #124/139 | 2024 |
| Bank Account Ownership | 38.6% | #124/139 | 2024 |
| Bank Branches | 2.1 | #149/153 | 2024 |
| Current Account Balance | -3.3% | #115/190 | 2026 |
| Debit Card Ownership | 3.5% | #138/140 | 2024 |
| Digital Payments Usage | 36.7% | #71/97 | 2024 |
| Economic Freedom of the World | 5.6 | #136/163 | 2022 |
| Economy Seen as Good (Afrobarometer) | 24.2% | #20/39 | 2023 |
| Extreme Poverty | 0% | #198/237 | 2023 |
| Fiscal Balance | -2.2% | #72/189 | 2026 |
| GDP (current US$) | 8.3 | #151/190 | 2026 |
| GDP (PPP) | 35.2 | #144/191 | 2026 |
| GDP per Capita | 919 | #180/190 | 2026 |
| GDP per Capita (Long Run) | 1,690 | #150/165 | 2022 |
| GDP per Capita (PPP) | 3,909 | #170/191 | 2026 |
| GDP per Capita Growth | 3.1% | #74/184 | 2019 |
| Government Debt | 44.3% | #114/185 | 2026 |
| Income per Person | 1,566 | #163/183 | 2018 |
| Inflation (CPI) | 7.5% | #28/191 | 2026 |
| Made a Digital Payment | 13.2% | #127/144 | 2017 |
| Mobile Money Account | 32.2% | #40/80 | 2024 |
| Real GDP Growth | 4.5% | #40/191 | 2026 |
| Share of World GDP (PPP) | 0% | #143/191 | 2026 |
| Total GDP (Long Run) | 11,681,270,534 | #150/165 | 2022 |
👥 Demographics
| Fertility Rate (WB) | 3.7 | #35/217 | 2024 |
| Gender Inequality Index | 0.6 | #21/172 | 2023 |
| Median Age | 19.9 | #198/235 | 2026 |
| Population | 6.3 | #109/229 | 2013 |
| Population | 9 | #97/191 | 2026 |
| Population Density | 125.4 | #100/235 | 2026 |
| Refugees by Country of Origin | 8,925 | #67/195 | 2025 |
| Urban Population | 45.4% | #156/213 | 2024 |
🌐 Connectivity
| Access to Electricity | 39.2% | #204/214 | 2024 |
| Get News from the Internet (Afrobarometer) | 26.2% | #29/39 | 2023 |
| Internet Users | 25.1% | #169/182 | 2024 |
| Mobile Subscriptions | 107.9 | #116/209 | 2022 |
| Read News Online | 20.9% | #62/75 | 2024 |
🫀 Health
🎓 Education
| Education Spending (QoG) | 2.6% | #86/112 | 2023 |
| Mean Years of Schooling | 5 | #137/146 | 2020 |
🌱 Environment
| CO₂ per Capita (WB) | 0.2 | #182/203 | 2024 |
| Environmental Performance Index | 39.9 | #127/179 | 2024 |
| Renewable Electricity | 95.2% | #15/195 | 2024 |
🏛️ Governance
📰 Media & news
| Press Freedom Index | 57.1 | #78/177 | 2026 |
🛡️ Safety
| Felt Unsafe in the Neighbourhood (Afrobarometer) | 38.9% | #34/39 | 2023 |
| Global Peace Index | 1.9 | #104/160 | 2025 |
| Homicide Rate | 11.2 | #44/204 | 2023 |
| Road Traffic Deaths | 13.8 | #83/195 | 2021 |
| Trust in the Police (Afrobarometer) | 19.9% | #38/39 | 2023 |
⚠️ Risk & resilience
| Climate Seen as a Threat | 87.9% | #59/142 | 2023 |
| Confident Can Protect Family | 32.8% | #104/142 | 2023 |
| Disaster Exposure (WRI) | 1.1 | #98/193 | 2026 |
| Experienced a Disaster | 51.6% | #16/142 | 2023 |
| Experienced Discrimination (Skin Colour) | 10.8% | #39/139 | 2023 |
| INFORM Risk Index | 5.1 | #57/191 | 2025 |
| Resilience to Risk (WRP) | 43.1 | #129/141 | 2023 |
| World Risk Index | 4.9 | #90/193 | 2026 |
| Worry About Violent Crime | 71.8% | #58/142 | 2023 |
😊 Wellbeing
| Happiness (Cantril Ladder) | 3.3 | #146/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Freedom | 0.8 | #110/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: GDP | 1.1 | #129/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Generosity | 0.1 | #47/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Healthy Life Expectancy | 0.4 | #118/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Low Corruption | 0.1 | #128/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Social Support | 0.7 | #134/147 | 2025 |
| Human Development Index | 0.5 | #185/193 | 2023 |
| Went Without a Cash Income (Afrobarometer) | 87.8% | #18/39 | 2023 |
| Went Without Enough Food (Afrobarometer) | 67% | #12/39 | 2023 |
🧭 Attitudes & values
| Attended a Demonstration | 6.1% | #122/151 | 2017 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Effective | 93% | #16/143 | 2018 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Safe | 92.8% | #10/143 | 2018 |
| China’s Influence Seen as Positive (Afrobarometer) | 64.9% | #18/39 | 2023 |
| Country Going in the Right Direction (Afrobarometer) | 32.1% | #17/39 | 2023 |
| Trust in Fellow Citizens (Afrobarometer) | 54.6% | #23/39 | 2023 |
| Trust in parliament | 4.7 | #69/151 | 2017 |
| Trust in Science | 49.1% | #136/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in Scientists | 51.7% | #114/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in the legal system | 4.6 | #99/153 | 2017 |
| US Influence Seen as Positive (Afrobarometer) | 76.4% | #6/39 | 2023 |
Latest available period per indicator. The rank counts down from the highest value, whatever that means for the series: on child mortality or extreme poverty the country at #1 is the worst in the world, not the best. Sources are credited on each indicator page.