Least Developed Country Category: Sierra Leone Profile

* Data from the 2024 triennial review

Sierra Leone Snapshot in PDF

LDC status

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Inclusion: 1982

Reports and resolutions

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Inclusion

CDP reports: 1982
ECOSOC resolutions: E/RES/1982/41, E/DEC/1982/106
GA resolution: A/RES/37/133

Gross national income (GNI) per capita*

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Value:

$ 497

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Thresholds

Inclusion: $ 1,088
Graduation: $ 1,306

Human assets index (HAI)*

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Index:

55.3

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Thresholds

Inclusion: 60 or below
Graduation: 66 or above

HAI indicators

Under-five mortality rate
Lower secondary education completion rate
stat Value: 100.8 stat Value: 45.3
Index: 44.9 Index: 39.2
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: UNESCO
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 26.0 stat Value: 48.6
Index: 53.0 Index: 31.5
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UNESCO
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for lower secondary education completion
stat Value: 443 stat Value: 1.0
Index: 63.4 Index: 100.0
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: UNESCO

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

38.7

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Thresholds

Inclusion: 36 or above
Graduation: 32 or below

EVI indicators

Share of agriculture, forestry and fishing in GDP
Share of population in low elevated coastal zones
stat Value: 60.7 stat Value: 3.5
Index: 100.0 Index: 10.1
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: CIESIN
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
stat Value: 50.0 stat Value: 0.0
Index: 49.9 Index: 0.0
Source: CDP Secretariat Source: CDP Secretariat
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 7.2 stat Value: 11.9
Index: 53.2 Index: 56.3
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 18.5 stat Value: 0.06
Index: 36.9 Index: 3.1
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: UNDRR

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