- Capital: Freetown
- POPULATION: 6.005 Million
- LANGUAGES: English(official)
- Median age: 17
- Birth Rate per 1000 people: 45.76
- Death Rate per 1000 people: 23.03
- Life expectancy: 40.22
- Literacy(definition: age 15 and over can read and write)
  total population: 29.6%
  male: 39.8%
  female: 20.5% (2000 est.)
- Independence: 27 April 1961 from UK
- GDP per capita: $900

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