Sierra Leone
- Official Name:
- Republic of Sierra Leone (Sierra Leone)
- Area:
- 71.740 km 2
- Population (2007):
- 6.144.562 inhabitants
- Coastline:
- 402 km
- Capital:
- Freetown
- Maritime Ports and terminals:
- Freetown, Pepel, Sherbro Islands
- Maritime claims:
-
- Territorial sea: 12 nm
- Contiguous zone: 24 nm
- Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
- Continental shelf: 200 nm
- Political divisions:
- 3 provinces and 1 area; Eastern, Northern, Southern, Western
- Language(s):
- English (official, regular use limited to literate minority), Mende (principal vernacular in the south), Temne (principal vernacular in the north), Krio (English-based Creole, spoken by the descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area, a lingua franca and a first language for 10% of the population but understood by 95%)
- National holiday:
- Independence Day, 27 April (1961)
- Nationality:
- Sierra Leonean(s)
- Official time:
- UTC 0 .
- Member of:
- ACP, AfDB, AU, C, ECOWAS, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NAM, OIC, OPCW, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
- Internet country code:
- .sl
Economic Profile
- Currency:
-
Leone (SLL) - GDP - per capita (PPP):
- USD900 (2006 est.)
- GDP (official exchange rate):
- (2006 est.) USD 1.236.000.000
- PIB (Real growth rate:
- 7,1% (2006 est.)
- GDP (Composition by sector): (2001 est.)
-
- Agriculture:49%
- Industry: 31%
- Services: 21%
- Labor force:
- 1.369.000 (1981 est.)
- Labor force - by occupation (1999):
-
- Agriculture ND
- Industry: ND
- Services ND
- Unemployment rate:
- ND
- Inflation rate (Consumer prices):
- 1% (2001 est)
- Investment (Gross Fixed):
- ND
- Budget:
-
- Revenues: USD96.000.000
- Expenditures: USD351.000.000
- Public debt:
- ND
- Current account balance:
- ND
- Exports:
- USD 185.000.000 FOB (2006 est.)
- Exports - Commodities:
- Diamonds, rutile, cocoa, coffee, fish
- Exports - Partners:
- Belgium 65,8%, Germany 13,4%, US 4,6% (2005)
- Imports:
- USD 531.000.000 FOB (2006 est.)
- Imports - Commodities:
- Foodstuffs, machinery and equipment, fuels and lubricants, chemicals
- Imports - partners:
- Germany 18,7%, Cote d'Ivoire 11%, UK 8,4%, US 6,8%, China 5,5%, Netherlands 5,3% (2005)
- Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
- ND
- Debt - external:
- USD 1.610.000.000 (2003 est.)
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