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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:8,731,140 (2025)
  • Area, sq km:72,180
  • GDP per capita, US$:758 (2023)
  • GDP, billion current US$:6.4 (2023)
  • GINI index:35.7 (2018)
  • Ease of Doing Business rank:163

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    • Global Disaster Damage and Loss Database
      March 2020
      Source: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
      Uploaded by: Knoema
      Accessed On: 22 December, 2020
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    • Global Internal Displacement Database
      June 2021
      Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
      Uploaded by: Knoema
      Accessed On: 06 September, 2022
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      Global Internal Displacement Database (GIDD) aims to provide comprehensive information on internal displacement worldwide. It covers all countries and territories for which IDMC has obtained data on situations of internal displacement, and provides data on situations of internal displacement associated with conflict and generalized violence (2014-2015), displacement associated with sudden-onset natural hazard-related disasters (2008-2015).
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    • INFORM Index for Risk Management
      March 2025
      Source: European Commission
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      Accessed On: 15 March, 2025
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      The Index for Risk Management INFORM is a composite indicator developed by JRC as a tool for understanding the risk of humanitarian crisis and disasters.
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