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GDP (purchasing power parity):
|
$4.939 billion (2005 est.) |
|
GDP (official exchange rate):
|
$1.128 billion (2005 est.) |
|
GDP - real growth rate:
|
7.5% (2005 est.) |
|
GDP - per capita (PPP):
|
$800 (2005 est.) |
|
GDP - composition by sector:
|
agriculture: 49%
industry: 31%
services: 21% (2001 est.) |
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Labor force:
|
1.369 million (1981 est.) |
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Labor force - by occupation:
|
agriculture: NA%
industry: NA%
services: NA% |
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Unemployment rate:
|
NA% |
|
Population below poverty line:
|
68% (1989 est.) |
|
Household income or consumption
by percentage share:
|
lowest 10%: 0.5%
highest 10%: 43.6% (1989) |
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Distribution of family income -
Gini index:
|
62.9 (1989) |
|
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
|
1% (2002 est.) |
|
Budget:
|
revenues: $96 million
expenditures: $351 million; including capital expenditures of
$NA (2000 est.) |
|
Agriculture - products:
|
rice, coffee, cocoa, palm kernels, palm
oil, peanuts; poultry, cattle, sheep, pigs; fish |
|
Industries:
|
diamond mining; small-scale
manufacturing (beverages, textiles, cigarettes, footwear); petroleum
refining, small commercial ship repair |
|
Industrial production growth
rate:
|
NA% |
|
Electricity - production:
|
260.6 million kWh (2003) |
|
Electricity - production by
source:
|
fossil fuel: 100%
hydro: 0%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001) |
|
Electricity - consumption:
|
242.4 million kWh (2003) |
|
Electricity - exports:
|
0 kWh (2003) |
|
Electricity - imports:
|
0 kWh (2003) |
|
Oil - production:
|
0.8361 bbl/day (2003 est.) |
|
Oil - consumption:
|
6,510 bbl/day (2003 est.) |
|
Oil - exports:
|
NA bbl/day |
|
Oil - imports:
|
NA bbl/day |
|
Natural gas - production:
|
0 cu m (2003 est.) |
|
Natural gas - consumption:
|
0 cu m (2003 est.) |
|
Exports:
|
$185 million f.o.b. (2004 est.)
|
|
Exports - commodities:
|
diamonds, rutile, cocoa, coffee, fish
|
|
Exports - partners:
|
Belgium 66.2%, Germany 13.5%, US 4.6%
(2005) |
|
Imports:
|
$531 million f.o.b. (2004 est.)
|
|
Imports - commodities:
|
foodstuffs, machinery and equipment,
fuels and lubricants, chemicals |
|
Imports - partners:
|
Germany 18.9%, Cote d'Ivoire 11.2%, UK
8.5%, US 6.9%, China 5.6%, Netherlands 5.4%, South Africa 4.1%
(2005) |
|
Debt - external:
|
$1.61 billion (2003 est.) |
|
Economic aid - recipient:
|
$297.4 million (2003 est.) |
|
Currency (code):
|
leone (SLL) |
|
Currency code:
|
SLL |
|
Exchange rates:
|
leones per US dollar - 2,889.6 (2005),
2,701.3 (2004), 2,347.9 (2003), 2,099 (2002), 1,986.2 (2001)
|
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Fiscal year:
|
calendar year |
People of
Sierra Leone
Sierra
Leone possesses substantial mineral, agricultural, and fishery
resources, its economic and social infrastructure if well
developed will increase economic development. About two-thirds
of the working-age population engages in subsistence
agriculture. 