Population in Sierra Leone
8.46 million
people · 2023
100th highest of 236 countries
In 2013: 6.71 million
Nearby in the ranking
- Austria 9.13 million
- Belarus 9.12 million
- Switzerland 8.87 million
- Sierra Leone 8.46 million
- Togo 8.22 million
- Laos 7.67 million
- Hong Kong 7.44 million
More about Sierra Leone
About the data
Population by country, available from 10,000 BCE to 2023, based on data and estimates from different sources.
- Unit
- people
- Years
- 1800–2023
- Data as of
- 2026-09-28
- Source
- Our World in Data
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- Credit
- Our World in Data; HYDE (2023); Gapminder (2022); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data. CC BY 4.0