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)