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Sierra Leone's total population, from 1961 to 2013. According to the 2022 revision of the World Population Prospects [3] [4] the total population was 8,420,641 in 2021, compared to only 1 895 000 in 1950. The proportion of children below the age of 15 in 2010 was 43%, 55.1% was between 15 and 65 years of age, while 1.9% was 65 years or older . [5]
In Sierra Leone the number of midwives per 1,000 live births is 1 and the lifetime risk of death for pregnant women 1 in 21. [ 16 ] Since the Ebola outbreak of 2014/2015 , healthcare facilities have been associated with pain and death.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 10 January 2025. There is 1 pending revision awaiting review. World map of countries or territories by Human Development Index scores in increments of 0.050 (based on 2022 data, published in 2024) ≥ 0.950 0.900–0.950 0.850–0.899 0.800–0.849 0.750–0.799 0.700–0.749 0.650–0.699 0.600–0.649 ...
Farming trainees who have been amputated during Sierra Leone’s civil war from 1991-2002, do warmup exercises before starting their day at the Farming on Crutches initiative in Freetown, Sierra ...
This means that anyone living on less than $2.15 a day is considered to be living in extreme poverty. About 692 million people globally were in this situation in 2024. [8] The second table lists countries by the percentage of the population living below the national poverty line—the poverty line deemed appropriate for a country by its ...
Dorothy Springer Trust (DST) volunteer, Nelson, supports visually impaired student, Osman, during a lesson.. In a 2009 study of disability in Sierra Leone, one third of the disabled people surveyed were employed while twice as many disabled people (16.4%) had no access to healthcare as compared to non-disabled people (7.1%).
Sierra Leone's current territorial configuration was established in two phases: in 1808, the coastal Sierra Leone Colony was founded as a place to resettle returning Africans after the abolition of the slave trade; then in 1896, the inland Protectorate was created as a result of the Berlin Conference of 1884–1885.
Rank District HDI (2022) Medium human development 1: Western Urban: 0.579 Low human development 2: Western Rural: 0.496 3: Bombali: 0.459 – Sierra Leone 0.458: 4: Bo: 0.445