Country profile · SLE
Sierra Leone
Region · Sub-Saharan Africa Population · 8.5M people
These estimates describe populations, not individual outcomes. Select a country or region to see more of the measures used in the simulation.
Health and education
- Death before age 1
- 5.6%
- Maternal deaths per 100,000 births
- 443 / 100,000
- Children per woman
- 3.79
- Expected years of schooling
- 9.1 years
- Tertiary enrollment
- 8%
- Smoking prevalence (men / women)
- 22% / 7%
Income and daily life
- Income inequality (Gini)
- 0.36
- Urban population
- 45%
- Employment in agriculture
- 47%
- Internet use
- 24%
- Adult HIV prevalence
- 1.50%
- Homicides per 100,000 people
- 2.2 / 100k
- Road deaths per 100,000 people
- 20.0 / 100k
- Out-of-pocket health spending
- 51%
- Women married before age 18
- 30%
- Life satisfaction (out of 10)
- 3.25
Religion
- Islam78%
- Christianity21%
- Folk and traditional beliefs1%
Major cities
- Freetown
Common hazards
- Floods
Common migration destinations
- Guinea
- the United Kingdom