Sierra Leone
64 figures for Sierra Leone, each the latest the source has. Pick one to see how Sierra Leone compares.
Economy
- GDP per person $846 (2025)
- GDP per person, price-adjusted $3,717 (2025)
- Economic growth +4.6% (2025)
- Unemployment 3.2% (2025)
- Inflation +28.6% (2024)
- Exports 17.3% (2024)
- Income per person $1,713 (2023)
- Household wealth 31.4 (2019)
- Poorer households 81.8% (2019)
- Wealth inequality 0.35 (2019)
- Women in paid work 69.8% (2019)
People
- Population 8.46 million (2023)
- Population growth +2.04% (2025)
- Births per woman 3.70 (2024)
- Typical age 19.3 (2023)
- Living in cities 45.9% (2025)
- Human Development Index 0.467 (2023)
- Women’s vs men’s development 0.830 (2023)
- People per household 6.9 (2019)
- People over 65 4.4% (2019)
- Children under 15 43.8% (2019)
- Women’s age at first marriage 19.1 (2019)
- Mothers’ age at first birth 19.2 (2019)
Health
- Life expectancy 61.8 (2023)
- Child deaths (under 5) 90.5 (2024)
- Mothers dying in childbirth 354 (2023)
- Health spending per person $36 (2023)
- Measles vaccination 90% (2024)
- Overweight adults 22.8% (2022)
- Stunted children 29.2% (2019)
- Overweight children 5.2% (2019)
- Homes with piped water 2.0% (2019)
- Homes with a flush toilet 6.8% (2019)
Education
- Years of schooling 3.5 (2023)
- Expected years in school 9.1 (2023)
- Secondary school enrollment 86.9% (2023)
- Education spending 4.9% (2022)
- Teens in school 79.8% (2019)
Environment
- CO₂ per person 0.166 (2024)
- Total CO₂ emissions 1.43 million (2024)
- Forest cover 34.3% (2023)
- Air pollution (PM2.5) 20.2 (2024)
- Renewable energy share 71.1% (2021)
- Average temperature 26.3 (2022)
Energy
- Access to electricity 39.2% (2024)
- Renewable electricity 95.2% (2024)
- Nuclear electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Coal electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Cooking with wood or dung 98.9% (2019)
Technology
- Internet users 25.1% (2024)
- Mobile phone subscriptions 107.9 (2022)
- Home broadband 0.0 (2021)
- Homes with internet 13.9% (2019)
- Homes with a mobile phone 72.6% (2019)
Food and farming
- Hunger 24.1% (2023)
- Cereal yield 1,470 (2023)
- Farmland 54.7% (2023)
- Jobs in farming 44.5% (2025)
Government
- Electoral democracy 0.47 (2025)
- Human rights 0.79 (2025)
- Control of corruption −0.78 (2025)
- Women in parliament 29.5% (2025)
- Military spending 0.5% (2024)
- Clean government 41.7 (2022)