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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:No data
  • National statistics office
  • Population, persons:7,557,212 (2017)
  • Area, sq km:72,180 (2017)
  • GDP per capita, US$:499 (2017)
  • GDP, billion current US$:3.8 (2017)
  • GINI index:34 (2011)
  • Ease of Doing Business rank:160 (2017)

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    • July 2015
      Source: African Development Bank Group
      Uploaded by: Knoema
      Accessed On: 06 August, 2015
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      The AfDB Statistics Department and the Fragile States Unit have compiled this data set from various sources (the World Bank, WHO, IMF, and many others)
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    • October 2016
      Source: World Bank
      Uploaded by: Knoema
      Accessed On: 17 November, 2016
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      Relevant indicators drawn from the World Development Indicators, reorganized according to the goals and targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The MDGs focus the efforts of the world community on achieving significant, measurable improvements in people's lives by the year 2015: they establish targets and yardsticks for measuring development results. Gender Parity Index (GPI)= Value of indicator for Girls/ Value of indicator for Boys. For e.g GPI=School enrolment for Girls/School enrolment for Boys. A value of less than one indicates differences in favor of boys, whereas a value near one (1) indicates that parity has been more or less achieved. The greater the deviation from 1 greater the disparity is.  
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