Sierra Leone
Key Indicators
Summary statistics
Capital: Freetown
Currency: Sierra Leonean Leone (SLE)
Area: 71,740 km²
Geographic Location: Region: West Africa, Coordinates: Approximately 8.49°N latitude and 13.24°W longitude.
Population: 8.6 million
| Description | 2022 | 2023 |
| National Accounts | ||
| Real GDP Growth (annual percent change) | 4 | 2.7 |
| GDP (current prices, billions of US$) | 3.99 | 3.52 |
| GDP per capita (current prices, US$ per capita) | 479.78 | 414.96 |
| Inflation rate, average consumer prices (annual % change) | 27.2 | 42.9 |
| Trade | ||
| Imports in Services (current prices, millions of $US) | ||
| Exports in Services (current prices, millions of $US) | ||
| Merchandise Imports (current prices, millions of $US) | ||
| Merchandise Exports (current prices, millions of $US) | ||
| Gas + Petrol Imports (in thousands of $US) | ||
| Gas + Petrol Exports (in thousands of $US) | ||
| BOP ( BALANCE OF PAYMENTS) | ||
| Current account, balance (billions of $US) | -0.353 | -0.24 |
| Current account, balance ( % of GDP) | -8.8 | -6.8 |
| FINANCE | ||
| General government net lending/borrowing (% of GDP) | -10.6 | -5.4 |
| General government gross debt (% of GDP) | 95.8 | 88.9 |
| EMPLOYMENT & SOCIAL INDICATORS | ||
| Population | 8,605,718 | 8,791,092 |