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If you were born in Sierra Leone today
About 1 in 520 babies born in the world right now is born in Sierra Leone (0.19%). This is what that life starts with — and you can live one, to the very end.
Life expectancy at birth54.7years · world 69.3
Children who die before five120per 1,000 births · world 48
Income per person$1,738a year, at local prices · world $13,616
Expected years of school9.8years · world 12.0
Life satisfaction3.6out of 10 · world 4.8
Live in cities45%world 52%
Mothers who die giving birth1,120per 100,000 births · world 239
Girls married before 1830%world 22%
- Out of every 1,000 babies born here, about 120 will not live to see their fifth birthday — 2.5 times the world average.
- A life here lasts 54.7 years on average — 14.6 years shorter than the world's 69.3.
- Income per person is about $1,738 a year at local prices, 0.13 times the world's.
Be born — maybe hereWhere you are born is drawn by real birth odds: today, 0.19% of the time it is Sierra Leone.
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Sources: UN World Population Prospects, UN IGME, World Bank, UNDP, World Happiness Report, WHO, UNICEF. Some small territories use regional estimates.