Population: 5,132,138
0-14: 44.5%
65+: 3.2%
Natural Increase: 2.12%
Infant Mortality Rate: 81/1000
Life Expectancy: 55 years
Total Fertility Rate: 5
Literacy Rate: 35.1%
Average length of education: 7 years
Gross Domestic Product per capita: $900
Employed in Agriculture: 49%
Below poverty line: 70.2%
Debt: was $1.61 billion
Human Development Index: 0.365 (3rd from bottom)
Civil War:
•From 1991 to 2002 - resulted in tens of thousands of deaths and more than 2 million people displaced
•New governments priorities include furthering development, creating jobs and stamping out endemic corruption
•Fragile peace - still conflict for power
•Is a democracy now
Blood diamonds:
•Diamonds discovered in 1930s
•Lots of illegal diamond mining and smuggling depriving Sierra Leone of at least $600 million a year in foreign exchange
Other info:
•Annual aid disbursed to Sierra Leone between 1970 and 2007 stands at an average of 14.2% of GDP. Much higher than the regional average of 3.7% for Africa as a whole
•90% of their debt was cancelled under the HICP worth $994 million
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