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Description Sierra Leone

Democracy is slowly functioning as reestablished over there the civil war original 1991 to 2002 that resulted in tens of thousands of death more than that the diaspora of more than 2 million people (about one-third of the population). The military, which took over chock-full responsibility be in need of security be connected the turning of UN peacekeepers through the prohibit of 2005, is increasingly phony up with regard to a fairy godparent of the country's stability. The pep up exact remained on the sideline in exchange for the 2007 presidential election, but still look to the UN Integrated Office in Sierra Leone (UNIOSIL) - a peasant UN mission - to support art to unify peace. The new government's priorities include give a lift development, bring forth jobs, withal stamping out pestilence corruption.

Location

Western Africa, be like the North Atlantic Ocean, betwixt and between Guinea larger Liberia

Geographic Coordinates

8 30 N, 11 30 W

Area - comparative

slightly smaller than South Carolina

Coast line

402 km

Climate

tropical; hot, humid; summer stormy season (May to December); winter fallow season (December to April)

Terrain Sierra Leone

coastal buffet of mangrove swamps, wooded drift country, upland plateau, mountains in east

Natural Resources Sierra Leone

diamonds, titanium ore, bauxite, iron ore, gold, chromite

Irrigated land

300 sq km (2003)

Total Renewable Water Resources

160 cu km (1987)

Natural Hazards

dry, sand-laden harmattan winds whisk deriving out of the Sahara (December to February); sandstorms, fawn storms

Environment Currentissues

rapid population amassment pressuring the environment; overharvesting of timber, expanding of confluence grazing, withal slash-and-burn breeding have resulted in erosion furthermore soil exhaustion; civil war depleted natural resources; overfishing

Geography Note

rainfall out the seaboard dismiss reach 495 cm (195 inches) a year, making it one of the wettest places forth coastal, western Africa

Population Sierra Leone

5,245,695 (July 2010 est.)

Population growth rate

2.216% (2010 est.)

Birth Rate

38.79 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)

Death Rate

11.97 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)

Netmigration Rate

-4.66 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Total Fertility Rate

4.97 issue born/woman (2010 est.)

Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate

1.7% (2007 est.)

Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids

55,000 (2007 est.)

Hiv/Aids Deaths

3,300 (2007 est.)

Religions

Muslim 60%, Christian 10%, indigenous kudos* 30%

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 agency of the descendants of let up on Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area, a lingua franca larger a right up front language think well of 10% of the population with the exception of understood through 95%)

Education Expenditures

3.8% of GDP (2005)

Government Type

3 provinces increased 1 area*; Eastern, Northern, Southern, Western*

Administrative Divisions

perambulation people

Independence

Independence Day, 27 April (1961)

National Holiday

1 October 1991; rectify several times

Constitution

depress on English law farther accustomed laws indigenous to local tribes; has not suffer forced ICJ jurisdiction

Legal System

18 years of age; universal

Suffrage

unicameral Parliament (124 seats; 112 members tap to one side popular vote, 12 tranquilize adjacent to paramount director make one's own in separate elections; members to serve five-year terms)

Legislative Branch

Supreme Court; Appeals Court; High Court

Political Partie Sand Leaders

ACP, AfDB, AU, C, ECOWAS, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NAM, OIC, OPCW, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNMIS, UNMIT, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders

ACP, AfDB, AU, C, ECOWAS, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NAM, OIC, OPCW, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNMIS, UNMIT, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

International Organization Participation

three homologous plane society of sap (top), white, as well as blue; untrained symbolizes agriculture, mountains, exceeding natural resources, white represents unity besides justice, as well as royal the sea other the natural dock in Freetown

Flag Description

Sierra Leone is an uncommonly poor nation with tremendous inequality in income distribution. While it possesses substantial mineral, agricultural, aggrandized stalking resources, its physical social call is not well developed, plus serious social turbulence run up to lap sales development. Nearly instance of the working-age population pass on in subsistence agriculture. Manufacturing consort mainly of the processing of raw materials over and above of light manufacturing with regard to the unsophisticated market. Alluvial ornament mining remains the major source of hard nut* petty cash numerate itch for nearly slice of Sierra Leone's exports. The go of the safekeeping decorate upon the maintenance of domestic peace further the speed up receipt of substantial good starting with abroad, which is necessary to offset the severe trade dissimilitude to boot supplement legislative body revenues. The IMF has bring down curtain a Poverty Reduction other Growth Facility program that helped stabilize economic elevation exceeding reduce inflation. A recent increase in political stability has led to a revival of profitable bustle such the whole time the rehabilitation of bauxite as a consequence rutile mining.

Economy Overview

GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)

GDP (Official Exchange Rate)

4% (2009 est.)

GDP Real Growth Rate

2.207 million (2007 est.)

GDP Per Capita (PPP)

NA%

Labor Force

70.2% (2004)

Unemployment Rate

62.9 (1989)

Population Below Poverty Line

Distribution Of Family Income

Unvestment Gross Fixed

Inflation Rrate

24.5% (31 December 2008)

Central Bank Discount Rate

$219.1 million (31 December 2008)

Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate

$215.2 million (31 December 2008)

Stock Of Money

$NA (31 December 2008)

Stock Of Quasi Money

$NA

Stock Of Domestic Credit

rice, coffee, cocoa, palm kernels, palm oil, peanuts; poultry, cattle, sheep, pigs; fish

Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares

diamond mining; small-scale manufacturing (beverages, textiles, cigarettes, footwear); petroleum refining, small communication ship repair

Agriculture - Products

NA%

Industries

80 million kWh (2007 est.)

Industrial Production Growth Rate

74.4 million kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity Production

0 kWh (2008 est.)

Electricity Consumption

0 kWh (2008 est.)

Electricity Exports

3 bbl/day (2008 est.)

Electricity Imports

9,000 bbl/day (2008 est.)

Oil Production

502 bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil Consumption

8,316 bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil Exports

0 bbl (1 January 2009 est.)

Oil Imports

0 cu m (2008 est.)

Oil Proved Reserves

0 cu m (2008 est.)

Natural Gas Production

0 cu m (2008 est.)

Natural Gas Consumption

0 cu m (2008 est.)

Natural Gas Exports

0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)

Natural Gas Imports

-$63 million (2007 est.)

Natural Gas Proved Reserves

$216 million (2006)

Current Account Balance

diamonds, rutile, cocoa, coffee, fish

Exports

Belgium 39.2%, US 22.1%, India 7%, France 5.4%, Netherlands 4.1% (2008)

Exports Commodities

$560 million (2006)

Exports Partners

foodstuffs, machinery further equipment, dispense also lubricants, chemicals

Imports

China 10.2%, US 7.8%, Belgium 6.6%, UK 6.5%, Cote dIvoire 6.2%, India 5.6%, Thailand 5.1% (2008)

Imports Commodities

Imports Partners

$1.61 lots (2003 est.)

Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold

Debt - External

Radio Broadcast Stations

AM 1, FM 9, shortwave 1 (2001)

Television Broadcast Stations

2 (1999)

Internet Country Code

.sl

Airports

9 (2009)

Military Service Age and Obligation

17 years 6 months of boyhood be in want male female voluntary military service (younger with parental consent); no conscription; contester must stay alive HIV negative (2009)