Country profilesSierra Leone
Sierra Leone
Republic of Sierra Leone
SL · SLE · Full profile
- Capital
- Freetown
- Currency
- Leone (SLE)
- Trade blocs
- African Union, ECOWAS
- Time zone
- GMT
- Main ports
- Freetown
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At a glance
Population
8.8million
2025
World Bank, World Development Indicators · SP.POP.TOTL · 2025
GDP
$7.5billion
2025
World Bank, World Development Indicators · NY.GDP.MKTP.CD · 2025
GDP per person
$846
2025
World Bank, World Development Indicators · NY.GDP.PCAP.CD · 2025
GDP growth
4.6%
2025
World Bank, World Development Indicators · NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG · 2025
Inflation
7.5%
2025
World Bank, World Development Indicators · FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG · 2025
Trade
49.1%
2025 · of GDP
World Bank, World Development Indicators · NE.TRD.GNFS.ZS · 2025
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Duties and tariffs
The World Bank records a trade-weighted applied tariff of 13.7% for 2022. That average is not the rate on a shipment. The rate you pay is the HS line in the national schedule. World Bank, tariff rate, applied, weighted mean, all products
The ECOWAS Common External Tariff has five duty bands: 0% for essential social goods, 5% for basic necessities, raw materials and capital goods, 10% for intermediate goods, 20% for finished consumer goods, and 35% for specific goods for economic development. The rate for a product is the band of its HS code, not a country average. ECOWAS Trade Information System, Common External Tariff
The lookup opens the customs schedules the desk already carries. It is not a ruling.