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 %)
Internal Violence Index (IVI)
Sierra Leone: 18
2020
Breakdown by component
| 2020 | Sierra Leone | |
|---|---|---|
| Internal Violence Index (IVI) | 18 | |
| Internal armed conflicts Sierra Leone: 38 | 38 | |
| Criminality-homicides Sierra Leone: 8 | 8 | |
| Terrorism Sierra Leone: 1 | 1 | |
| Political violence Sierra Leone: 0 | 0 | |
| Regional violence Sierra Leone: 5 | 5 |