$3.425 billion (158th) (31 December 2018 est.)[17]
Public finances
Government debt
34.6% of GDP (2012)[18]
Revenues
$510.2 million (2012 est.)[19]
Expenses
$728.5 million (2012 est.)[19]
Main data source:CIA World Fact Book All values, unless otherwise stated, are in US dollars.
The economy of Sierra Leone is $4.082 billion by gross domestic product as of 2018.[20] Since the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War in 2002, the economy is gradually recovering with a gross domestic product growth rate between 4 and 7%.[20] In 2008 it in PPP ranked between 147th by World Bank, and 153rd by CIA, largest in the world.[21]
Sierra Leone's economic development has always been hampered by an overdependence on mineral exploitation. Successive governments and the population as a whole have always believed that "diamonds and gold" are sufficient generators of foreign currency earnings and lure for investment.
As a result, large scale agriculture of commodity products, industrial development and sustainable investments have been neglected by governments. The economy could thus be described as one which is "exploitative" - a rentier state - and based upon the extraction of unsustainable resources or non-reusable assets.
Two-thirds of the population of Sierra Leone are directly involved in subsistence agriculture.[22] Agriculture accounted for 58 percent national GDP in 2007.[23]
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