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Sierra Leone

  • President:Julius Maada Bio
  • Vice President:Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh
  • Capital city:Freetown
  • Languages: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%)
  • Government
  • National statistics office
  • Population, persons:8,884,298 (2024)
  • Area, sq km:72,180
  • GDP per capita, US$:476 (2022)
  • GDP, billion current US$:4.1 (2022)
  • GINI index:35.7 (2018)
  • Ease of Doing Business rank:163

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