Sierra Leone
General information
Capital: Freetown
Currency unit: Sierra Leonean leone
Official language: English
Area: 72,180 km²
Population in million: 7,650,150.0
GDP per capita (current US dollars): 534
GDP per capita, PPP (current international $): 1,602
Demography
Labor force participation rate (% of total population ages 15+): 58.1
Annual growth rate of the population: 2.1 %
Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births): 78.5 %
Life expectancy at birth: 53.9 ans
Youth literacy rate Literacy rate, youth total (% of people ages 15-24): 43 %
Production
Gross domestic product (GDP) in billions of US dollars: 4,085,110,000.00
Agriculture value added of GDP: 58.9
Industry value added of GDP: 5.3
Services value added of GDP: 4.0
Trade
Total exports in billions of US dollars: 839,535.00
Total imports in billions of US dollars: 1,296,830.00
Major manufactured products (as % of total exports) :
Diamonds (2.25 %)
bottles, flasks, jars, pots and other containers of glass (1.74 %)
Electrical transformers (0.27 %)
Articles of cement (0.08 %)
Seats (0.07 %)
Weight of major primary products excluding minerals and oil (as % of total exports) :
Cocoa beans (7.64 %)
Wood in the rough (1.63 %)
Coffee (1.22 %)
Cane or beet sugar (0.42 %)
Frozen fish (0.23 %)
Physical Vulnerability to Climate Change Index (PVCCI)
| 2020 | Sierra Leone | |
|---|---|---|
| Physical Vulnerability to Climate Change Index (PVCCI) | 50 | |
| Risks related to progresssive shocks Sierra Leone: 34 | 34 | |
| Risks related to the intensification of recurrent shocks Sierra Leone: 58 | 58 |