Least Developed Country Category: Sierra Leone Profile

* Data from the 2021 triennial review

Sierra Leone Snapshot in PDF

LDC status

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Inclusion: 1982

Reports and resolutions

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Inclusion

CDP repors: 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:

$ 532

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Thresholds

Inclusion: $ 1,018
Graduation: $ 1,222
Income-only graduation: $ 2,444

Human assets index (HAI)*

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Index:

41.7

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Thresholds

Inclusion: 60 or below
Graduation: 66 or above

HAI indicators

Under-five mortality rate
Gross secondary school enrolment ratio
stat Value: 109.2 stat Value: 41.8
Index: 39.9 Index: 35.3
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: UNESCO
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 27.7 stat Value: 43.2
Index: 49.5 Index: 24.3
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UNESCO
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for gross secondary school enrolment
stat Value: 1,120 stat Value: 0.97
Index: 6.7 Index: 94.3
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: UNESCO

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

40.3

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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: 61.0 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: 49.8 stat Value: 0.0
Index: 49.7 Index: 0.0
Source: CDP Source: CDP
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 0.28 stat Value: 14.9
Index: 21.7 Index: 72.3
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 18.8 stat Value: 0.05
Index: 37.7 Index: 30.9
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: EM-DAT