Sierra Leone
General information
Capital: Freetown
Currency unit: Leone
Area: 72,300 km²
Total population: 8,642,020
GDP (millions of US dollars): 6,971
GDP per capita, PPP (current international US dollars): 3,522
Production
Agriculture (% of GDP): 30.1 %
Manufacture (% of GDP): 7.2 %
Industry excluding manufacture (% of GDP): 19.2 %
Services (% of GDP): 43.6 %
Trade
Total exports (millions of US dollars): 1,598
Total imports (millions of US dollars): 2,912
Main exported goods (% of total exports):
Iron ore and concentrates (54.5 %)
Ores and concentrates of base metals (16.2 %)
Cocoa (9.5 %)
Pearls, precious & semi-precious stones (7.0 %)
Aluminium ores and concentrates (incl. alumina) (1.6 %)
Revealed Competitiveness
This section brings together measures of countries’ revealed competitiveness in international markets, that is, their ability to export to those markets. These measures of export competitiveness are therefore the result of the price and non-price competitiveness factors presented in the sections “National Attractiveness and Sustainability” and “Price Competitiveness.” They are defined on a scale ranging from 0 to 10,000, with a higher value indicating greater export competitiveness in international markets.
| Sierra Leone | ||
|---|---|---|
| Revealed Competitiveness | - | |
| Global Market Share Sierra Leone: 0 | 0 | |
| Revealed Competitiveness Index Sierra Leone: 2 | 2 |