🇸🇱Sierra Leone

Freetown

Africa

Low income

SLE

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Population

8.8M

2.1%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

3.70

births/woman

Life Expectancy

62.0y

GDP / capita

$846.3

Pop. Growth

2.04%

Net Migration

-11.3K

Population over time

Total population · observed (solid) and UN medium projection to 2100 (dashed)

Source: World Bank · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Fertility rate over time

Births per woman · dashed line = replacement (2.1)

Source: World Bank

Where immigrants come from

Largest foreign-born communities in Sierra Leone by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇬🇳Guinea33.5K(68.2%)

−29%

🇱🇷Liberia8.5K(17.2%)

−62%

🇳🇬

Population projections to 2100

Official UN projections — Low / Medium / High variants

Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024

Population pyramid (2025)

Age & sex structure · share of total population by 5-year cohort

Male4.4MTotal 8.8M4.4MFemale

Source: birthrate.io model

GDP per capita over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Life expectancy over time

Years at birth

Source: World Bank

Society, housing & beliefs

Family, crime, housing and religion indicators

Homicide rate

2.2

per 100,000

Divorce rate

—

per 1,000

Births outside marriage

—

of births

Home ownership

—

of households

Homicide rate over time

Intentional homicides per 100,000 people

Source: World Bank / UNODC

GDP over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Net migration over time

Net migrants per year (immigrants − emigrants)

Source: World Bank

Foreign-born population over time

Immigrant / diaspora population living in the country

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

Foreign-born share over time

Foreign-born residents as % of the population

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

🇮🇳India892(1.8%)

+65%

🇬🇭Ghana874(1.8%)

−21%

🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau605(1.2%)

13×

🇱🇧Lebanon545(1.1%)

−20%

🇬🇲Gambia, The487(1.0%)

−63%

🇸🇳Senegal285(0.6%)

−38%

🇲🇱Mali244(0.5%)

−48%

🇨🇳China174(0.4%)

−16%

🇺🇸United States141(0.3%)

−42%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024

Where the Sierra Leone diaspora lives

Top destinations for people born in Sierra Leone who now live abroad (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇸🇳Senegal15.8K(24.9%)

+13%

🇱🇷Liberia13.9K(21.8%)

+10%

🇬🇳Guinea8.1K(12.7%)

−41%

🇳🇬Nigeria4.7K(7.4%)

+39%

🇦🇺Australia4.2K(6.6%)

+29%

🇬🇭Ghana3.1K(4.8%)

+58%

🇧🇪Belgium3K(4.7%)

+113%

🇬🇲Gambia, The2.9K(4.5%)

+27%

🇲🇱Mali2.8K(4.4%)

+62%

🇮🇹Italy2.5K(3.9%)

+139%

🇳🇴Norway576(0.9%)

+23%

🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau491(0.8%)

−36%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024