Sierra Leone SL
Sub-Saharan Africa · Low income · capital Freetown
- Population
- 8,819,794
- 2025
- GDP
- $7.5 billion
- 2025
- Life expectancy
- 62.0 y
- 2024
Geospatial extent
Bounding box -13.30°–-10.28° E, 6.92°–10.00° N · centroid 8.46, -11.79 · source natural-earth-1:110m
Map © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Extent only; no cadastre or address data.
Top research institutions
- University of Sierra Leone — 2,554 works · ROR · site
- Njala University — 1,839 works · ROR · site
- Ministry of Health and Sanitation — 1,063 works · ROR · site
- Sierra Leone Agricultural Research Institute — 402 works · ROR · site
- University of Makeni — 274 works · ROR · site
OpenAlex works counts; not a quality ranking.
Legal system
mixed system of English common law and customary law
CIA World Factbook (factbook.json)
Measured indicators
| indicator | value | year | source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Account ownership (% age 15+) | 38.6 | 2024 | World Bank |
| Agricultural land (% of land) | 55.2 | 2024 | World Bank |
| basic_water_pct | 68.1 | 2024 | World Bank |
| Access to electricity (%) | 39.2 | 2024 | World Bank |
| Foreign direct investment (% of GDP) | 2.4 | 2025 | World Bank |
| fixed_broadband_per_100 | 0.0 | 2021 | World Bank |
| Forest area (% of land) | 34.0 | 2024 | World Bank |
| GDP per capita (current US$) | 846.3 | 2025 | World Bank |
| Current health expenditure (% of GDP) | 4.7 | 2023 | World Bank |
| Intentional homicides per 100,000 | 2.2 | 2020 | World Bank |
| idps_by_origin | 0.0 | 2024 | UNHCR |
| Individuals using the internet (%) | 25.1 | 2024 | World Bank |
| military_expenditure_pct_gdp | 0.4 | 2025 | World Bank |
| Net migration | -11,309.0 | 2025 | World Bank |
| New limited-liability companies registered | 3,712.0 | 2024 | World Bank |
| Patent applications, non-residents | 4.0 | 2020 | World Bank |
| primary_enrollment_pct | 162.1 | 2024 | World Bank |
| Prison population rate per 100,000 | 52.0 | 2024 | World Prison Brief / OWID |
| refugees_by_origin | 8,042.0 | 2024 | UNHCR |
| Personal remittances received (% of GDP) | 4.6 | 2024 | World Bank |
| Research institutions indexed (OpenAlex) | 16.0 | 2026-10-14 | OpenAlex |
| Scholarly works since 2021 (OpenAlex) | 3,344.0 | 2021– | OpenAlex |
| Safely managed drinking water (%) | 10.9 | 2024 | World Bank |
| secondary_enrollment_pct | 86.9 | 2023 | World Bank |
| Trade (% of GDP) | 49.1 | 2025 | World Bank |
| Undernourishment (%) | 25.3 | 2024 | World Bank |
| Unemployment (% labour force) | 3.1 | 2025 | World Bank |
| Urban population (%) | 45.9 | 2025 | World Bank |
Lane coverage
| lane | status | what exists |
|---|---|---|
| patents | YELLOW · partial | patent application counts (residents + non-residents) from the World Bank/WIPO series; patent documents are not ingested source |
| legal | YELLOW · partial | legal-system description (CIA World Factbook, public domain); no statutes, gazettes or case law ingested, and Factbook recency is not guaranteed source |
| alerts | YELLOW · partial | global GDACS/USGS feeds are live; no active event currently names this country (not an all-clear) source |
| defense | GREEN · ingested | military expenditure (% of GDP), SIPRI series via World Bank; not procurement, capabilities or intent source |
| space | YELLOW · partial | global launch feed is live; 0 launches from pads here in the current bounded window source |
| maps | YELLOW · partial | Natural Earth 1:10m public-domain boundary (extent + centroid); no cadastre, address data or navigation map source |
| passport | GLOBAL · service live | pass.go-v.org is live; per-country identity documents are NOT ingested source |
| research | GREEN · ingested | 3,344 scholarly works since 2021 with authoring institutions here (OpenAlex); a publication index, not a quality ranking source |
| economy | GREEN · ingested | GDP per capita, current US$ (World Bank); not a cost-of-living or inequality measure source |
| health | GREEN · ingested | life expectancy at birth, World Bank; not a health system performance rating source |
| education | YELLOW · partial | primary school enrolment (% gross), World Bank; tertiary data is shown when available source |
| energy | GREEN · ingested | access to electricity (% of population), World Bank source |
| water | YELLOW · partial | at least basic drinking water (% of population), World Bank/WHO; safely managed data shown when available source |
| connectivity | YELLOW · partial | fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people, World Bank/ITU; internet-user share shown when available source |
| crime | GREEN · ingested | intentional homicides per 100,000 people (UNODC series via World Bank); recorded homicides only source |
| conflict | YELLOW · partial | 8,042 refugees and 0 IDPs by country of origin (UNHCR 2024); a displacement measure, not battle events source |
| business | YELLOW · partial | newly registered limited-liability companies (World Bank/IC.BUS.NREG); not a company register source |
| science | GREEN · ingested | 16 research institutions indexed by OpenAlex; an institutional index, not a lab-certification register source |
| prison | GREEN · ingested | prison population rate 52 per 100,000 (World Prison Brief via Our World in Data, 2024); not a prison conditions assessment source |
| interpol | GREY · source has no observation | Interpol public notices are not ingested: the public API returns 403 to this host and its terms do not grant bulk reuse source |
| arms | GREY · source has no observation | SIPRI Arms Transfers Database is not wired; military expenditure is carried under the defense lane instead source |
| sanctions | GREEN · ingested | 0 designations naming this country in the ingested OFAC SDN and UN Security Council consolidated lists; a measured zero, not a claim of no illicit activity source |
| agriculture | GREEN · ingested | agricultural land (% of land area), World Bank/FAO source |
| food | YELLOW · partial | prevalence of undernourishment (%), World Bank/FAO; a modelled estimate, not a survey of every household source |
| labor | YELLOW · partial | unemployment (% of labour force), ILO modelled estimate via World Bank source |
| finance | YELLOW · partial | account ownership (% age 15+), World Bank Findex source |
| environment | GREEN · ingested | forest area (% of land area), World Bank/FAO source |
| trade | GREEN · ingested | trade (% of GDP), World Bank source |
| migration | YELLOW · partial | net migration (5-year estimate), World Bank/UN source |
| tourism | GREY · source has no observation | no tourist-arrivals observation for this economy source |
| housing | YELLOW · partial | urban population (% of total), World Bank; not a housing-cost or tenure measure source |
| transport | GREY · source has no observation | no air-passenger observation for this economy source |
| investment | GREEN · ingested | Foreign direct investment, net inflows (% of GDP) (World Bank, 2025) source |
| remittances | GREEN · ingested | Personal remittances received (% of GDP) (World Bank, 2024) source |
| health_finance | YELLOW · partial | Current health expenditure (% of GDP) (World Bank, 2023) source |
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Cite this page
Sierra Leone (SL). go-v.org estate, http://116.202.234.183:9081/sl. Data: World Bank Open Data, OpenAlex, WIPO, Natural Earth, OpenStreetMap. Accessed 2026-10-25.