
Sierra Leone
General information
Capital: Freetown
Currency unit: Sierra Leonean leone
Official language: English
Area: 72,300 km²
Population in million: 7.6
GDP per capita (current US dollars): 499
GDP per capita, PPP (current international $): 1,526
Demography
Labor force participation rate (% of total population ages 15+): 57.9
Annual growth rate of the population: 2.2 %
Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births): 81.7 %
Life expectancy at birth: 51.8 ans
Youth literacy rate Literacy rate, youth total (% of people ages 15-24): 48 %
Production
Gross domestic product (GDP) in billions of US dollars: 3.77
Agriculture value added of GDP: 60.3
Industry value added of GDP: 5.1
Services value added of GDP: 32.4
Trade
Total exports in billions of US dollars: 0.90
Total imports in billions of US dollars: 1.21
Major manufactured products (as % of total exports) :
Diamonds (17.87 %)
bottles, flasks, jars, pots and other containers of glass (1.56 %)
Electrical transformers (0.25 %)
Articles of cement (0.07 %)
Seats (0.06 %)
Weight of major primary products excluding minerals and oil (as % of total exports) :
Cocoa beans (6.81 %)
Wood in the rough (1.46 %)
Coffee (1.09 %)
Cane or beet sugar (0.37 %)
Frozen fish (0.21 %)