LiberiaandSierra Leone

26 July 1847 · 27 April 1961

Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.

Liberia

26 July 1847 — The settlement constitutes itself as the Republic of Liberia

Dossier →Chronicle →

Sierra Leone

27 April 1961 — Sierra Leone becomes independent of Britain

Dossier →Chronicle →

Shared indicators
39
Domains
9
Crossed events
3
Data through
2026-08-14

The figures, side by side

Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.

Economy

LBRSLE
  • GDP
    $5.2 B2025$7.5 B2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP per capita
    $9152025$8462025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP growth
    5.0%20254.6%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Inflation
    8.3%20257.5%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Trade openness
    —49.1%2025
    Observed — / 2025 · figures compared, never graded

Society

LBRSLE
  • Population
    5.7 m20258.8 m2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Life expectancy
    62.3 yrs202462.0 yrs2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Urban population
    56.1%202545.9%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Fertility rate
    3.920243.72024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Governance

LBRSLE

Health

LBRSLE
  • Health spending
    13.0%20234.7%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Physicians
    0.1820220.132022
    Observed 2022 / 2022 · figures compared, never graded
  • Under-5 mortality
    86.4202490.52024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Measles immunisation
    82.0%202490.0%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Safe drinking water
    —10.9%2024
    Observed — / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Education

LBRSLE
  • Adult literacy
    59.4%201043.6%2019
    Observed 2010 / 2019 · figures compared, never graded
  • Education spending
    2.3%20232.6%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Primary enrolment
    66.6%2022162.1%2024
    Observed 2022 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Secondary enrolment
    37.7%202086.9%2023
    Observed 2020 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Tertiary enrolment
    10.8%20122.0%2002
    Observed 2012 / 2002 · figures compared, never graded

Technology

LBRSLE
  • Internet users
    32.2%202425.1%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mobile subscriptions
    3220221082022
    Observed 2022 / 2022 · figures compared, never graded
  • High-tech exports
    0.6%20230.7%2018
    Observed 2023 / 2018 · figures compared, never graded

Geography

LBRSLE
  • Land area
    96,320 km²202372,180 km²2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest area
    78.1%202334.3%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Agricultural land
    20.0%202354.7%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • CO₂ per capita (t)
    0.220240.22024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Renewable energy
    92.8%202271.6%2022
    Observed 2022 / 2022 · figures compared, never graded

Resources

LBRSLE
  • Resource rents
    21.9%20219.0%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Oil rents
    0.0%20210.0%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mineral rents
    5.4%20210.2%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest rents
    16.5%20218.8%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Electricity access
    34.9%202439.2%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Military

LBRSLE
  • Military burden
    0.7%20240.5%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Defense spending
    $34 M2024$36 M2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Armed forces
    2,00020209,0002020
    Observed 2020 / 2020 · figures compared, never graded

Entangled histories

3 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

  1. 23 March 1991

    Civil war begins

    The Revolutionary United Front under Foday Sankoh, backed by Liberia's Charles Taylor, invaded from Liberia, beginning an eleven-year civil war marked by atrocities and funded by 'blood diamonds'.

    War & Rupture · from the Sierra Leone chronicle · One-party rule, civil war, and recovery · REFS 2 — The Sierra Leone Civil War (1991–2002), Foday Sankoh

  2. August 2003

    Taylor resigns; Accra peace agreement

    With rebels besieging Monrovia and an international indictment over Sierra Leone hanging over him, Charles Taylor resigned and went into exile; a comprehensive peace agreement in Accra ended the war and a UN mission, UNMIL, deployed.

    War & Rupture · from the Liberia chronicle · The civil wars and Charles Taylor · REFS 3 — Second Liberian Civil War (1999–2003), Charles Taylor, Second Liberian Civil War

  3. 26 April 2012

    Taylor convicted of war crimes

    The Special Court for Sierra Leone convicted Charles Taylor of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sierra Leone and sentenced him to 50 years — the first former head of state convicted by an international tribunal since Nuremberg.

    War & Rupture · from the Liberia chronicle · The civil wars and Charles Taylor · REFS 2 — Sierra Leone: Landmark Conviction of Liberian Ex-President, Special Court sentences former Liberian leader Charles Taylor to 50 years in prison