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Sierra Leone

Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Capital City: Freetown
Country Code: SL

Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)

Year: 2024 = 6.617045
Year: 2023 = 5.295824
Year: 2022 = 3.734564
Year: 2021 = 3.170732
Year: 2020 = 2.949607

Lending Interest Rate

Year: 2024 = 20.438%
Year: 2023 = 19.639%
Year: 2022 = 19.313%
Year: 2021 = 18.859%
Year: 2020 = 17.938%

Unfortunately, lending rates are from the World Bank and may be outdated, as many countries stopped reporting lending rates after 2019. You may easily get more updated data from the Reserve Bank for the country, or any commercial bank website.

Human Development Index (HDI)

Year: 2023 = 0.140
Year: 2022 = 0.148
Year: 2021 = 0.149
Year: 2020 = 0.125
Year: 2019 = 0.125

The HDI is recalculated every year using the most recent data and functional forms. Rankings in one report cannot be directly compared to earlier editions.


Data Attribution: The World Bank | UNDP/HDRO
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