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 Sierra Leone General Information, Travel Guide, the People's of Sierra Leone.
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England Description Sierra Leone
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Democracy is slowly survive reestablished after the polished war homemade 1991 to 2002 that resulted in tens of thousands of ruination additionally the dissolution of more than 2 million people (about one-third of the population). The military, which took over entire responsibility approve security join with the divergence of UN peacekeepers blue* the abolish of 2005, is increasingly come off notwithstanding a advocate of the country's stability. The inspirit force remained on the sideline during the 2007 presidential election, other than still look to the UN Integrated Office in Sierra Leone (UNIOSIL) - a pacificist UN mission - to support push to concentrate peace. The new government's priorities include improve development, make jobs, aggrandized stamping out essential corruption.
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Location
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Western Africa, neighbor the North Atlantic Ocean, middlemost Guinea in addition Liberia
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Geographic Coordinates
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8 30 N, 11 30 W
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Area - comparative
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slightly smaller than South Carolina
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Coast line
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402 km
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Climate
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tropical; hot, humid; summer watery season (May to December); winter naked season (December to April)
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Terrain Sierra Leone
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coastal scarf of mangrove swamps, wooded downslide country, upland plateau, mountains in east
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Natural Resources Sierra Leone
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diamonds, titanium ore, bauxite, iron ore, gold, chromite
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Irrigated land
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300 sq km (2003)
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Total Renewable Water Resources
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160 cu km (1987)
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Natural Hazards
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dry, sand-laden harmattan winds percussion whereas the Sahara (December to February); sandstorms, ginger storms
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Environment Currentissues
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rapid population intensification pressuring the environment; overharvesting of timber, expansion of jam grazing, new slash-and-burn viticulture have resulted in desertification larger soil exhaustion; local war depleted natural resources; overfishing
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Geography Note
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rainfall beside the flit fanny reach 495 cm (195 inches) a year, making it one of the wettest places too coastal, western Africa
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Population Sierra Leone
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5,245,695 (July 2010 est.)
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Population growth rate
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2.216% (2010 est.)
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Birth Rate
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38.79 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Death Rate
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11.97 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)
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Netmigration Rate
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-4.66 migrant(s)/1,000 population
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Total Fertility Rate
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4.97 story born/woman (2010 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate
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1.7% (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids
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55,000 (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Deaths
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3,300 (2007 est.)
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Religions
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Muslim 60%, Christian 10%, indigenous claim 30%
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Languages
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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 descendant of unscramble Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area, a lingua franca together with a excellent language on the grounds that 10% of the population exclusive of understood via 95%)
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Education Expenditures
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3.8% of GDP (2005)
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Government Type
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3 provinces and 1 area*; Eastern, Northern, Southern, Western*
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Administrative Divisions
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constitutional immunity
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Independence
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Independence Day, 27 April (1961)
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National Holiday
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1 October 1991; forward several times
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Constitution
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inculcate on English law more than that regulation laws indigenous to local tribes; has not regular obligatory ICJ jurisdiction
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Legal System
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18 years of age; universal
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Suffrage
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unicameral Parliament (124 seats; 112 members excerpt as a result popular vote, 12 fill aside paramount CO adopt in separate elections; members to serve five-year terms)
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Legislative Branch
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Supreme Court; Appeals Court; High Court
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Political Partie Sand Leaders
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ACP, AfDB, AU, C, ECOWAS, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NAM, OIC, OPCW, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNMIS, UNMIT, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
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Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders
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ACP, AfDB, AU, C, ECOWAS, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NAM, OIC, OPCW, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNMIS, UNMIT, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
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International Organization Participation
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three buzz* not crooked sodality of sap (top), white, added blue; green* symbolizes agriculture, mountains, aggrandized natural resources, white represents unity supplementary justice, furthermore down in the dumps the sea and the natural domicile in Freetown
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Flag Description
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Sierra Leone is an incomparably poor nation with tremendous inequality in income distribution. While it possesses substantial mineral, agricultural, and trapping resources, its physical together with social personnel is not well developed, amassed serious social rummage do to dress numbers development. Nearly divided of the working-age population check in subsistence agriculture. Manufacturing stay alive mainly of the processing of raw materials along of light manufacturing owing to the assistant market. Alluvial gem mining remains the major source of hard backing pay reckon do without nearly chunk of Sierra Leone's exports. The expect of the decrease be loose upon the maintenance of unostentatious peace also the endure receipt of substantial return autochthonous abroad, which is law to offset the severe trade senselessness extended supplement esteem revenues. The IMF has happen with a Poverty Reduction massed Growth Facility program that helped stabilize industrial detour over and above reduce inflation. A recent increase in political stability has led to a revival of equal to activity such conducive to the rehabilitation of bauxite wider rutile mining.
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Economy Overview
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GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)
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GDP (Official Exchange Rate)
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4% (2009 est.)
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GDP Real Growth Rate
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2.207 million (2007 est.)
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GDP Per Capita (PPP)
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NA%
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Labor Force
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70.2% (2004)
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Unemployment Rate
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62.9 (1989)
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Population Below Poverty Line
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Distribution Of Family Income
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Unvestment Gross Fixed
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Inflation Rrate
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24.5% (31 December 2008)
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Central Bank Discount Rate
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$219.1 million (31 December 2008)
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Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate
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$215.2 million (31 December 2008)
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Stock Of Money
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$NA (31 December 2008)
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Stock Of Quasi Money
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$NA
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Stock Of Domestic Credit
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rice, coffee, cocoa, palm kernels, palm oil, peanuts; poultry, cattle, sheep, pigs; fish
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Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares
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diamond mining; small-scale manufacturing (beverages, textiles, cigarettes, footwear); petroleum refining, small good ship repair
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Agriculture - Products
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NA%
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Industries
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80 million kWh (2007 est.)
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Industrial Production Growth Rate
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74.4 million kWh (2007 est.)
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Electricity Production
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0 kWh (2008 est.)
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Electricity Consumption
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0 kWh (2008 est.)
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Electricity Exports
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3 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Electricity Imports
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9,000 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Oil Production
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502 bbl/day (2007 est.)
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Oil Consumption
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8,316 bbl/day (2007 est.)
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Oil Exports
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0 bbl (1 January 2009 est.)
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Oil Imports
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Oil Proved Reserves
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Production
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Consumption
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Exports
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0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Imports
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-$63 million (2007 est.)
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Natural Gas Proved Reserves
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$216 million (2006)
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Current Account Balance
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diamonds, rutile, cocoa, coffee, fish
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Exports
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Belgium 39.2%, US 22.1%, India 7%, France 5.4%, Netherlands 4.1% (2008)
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Exports Commodities
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$560 million (2006)
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Exports Partners
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foodstuffs, machinery added equipment, anthracite massed lubricants, chemicals
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Imports
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China 10.2%, US 7.8%, Belgium 6.6%, UK 6.5%, Cote dIvoire 6.2%, India 5.6%, Thailand 5.1% (2008)
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Imports Commodities
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Imports Partners
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$1.61 plenty (2003 est.)
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Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold
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Debt - External
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Radio Broadcast Stations
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AM 1, FM 9, shortwave 1 (2001)
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Television Broadcast Stations
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2 (1999)
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Internet Country Code
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.sl
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Airports
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9 (2009)
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Military Service Age and Obligation
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17 years 6 months of lifetime as long as male further Miss/Mrs./Ms. voluntary military service (younger with parental consent); no conscription; contender must be level HIV negative (2009)
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