Sierra Leone's final consumption expenditure (annual % growth) was 2.54% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 20.08 percentage points from -17.54% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 2.54% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | -6.12% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | -17.54% | 2015 |
| Highest | 32.85% | 2013 |
| Lowest | -18.32% | 1997 |
| Average since 2016 | 3.98% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | -2.48% | 1981 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Sierra Leone's final consumption expenditure (annual % growth) rose 15.06 percentage points on 2024 (from -12.52% to 2.54%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +0.12 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 18.08 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.8 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 44 percentage points in 2011 and the biggest yearly fall was 34.63 percentage points in 2014. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 the straight-line trend is downward, about 1.68 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 37% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2025, Sierra Leone had the 86th highest value of the 132 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Sierra Leone | 2.54% | 2025 |
| World | 2.91% | 2024 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 4.29% | 2025 |
| Low income | 4.13% | 2025 |
Closest to Sierra Leone in the 2025 ranking
- North Macedonia — 82nd of 132: 2.73%
- Czechia — 83rd of 132: 2.72%
- South Africa — 84th of 132: 2.7%
- Congo, Dem. Rep. — 86th of 132: 2.48%
- Latvia — 87th of 132: 2.44%
- Bosnia and Herzegovina — 88th of 132: 2.42%
What this measures
Final consumption expenditure is expenditure on goods and services by resident institutional units for the direct satisfaction of human needs or wants, whether individual or collective. Final consumption expenditure can be measured for households, general government, the central bank and non-profit institutions serving households. This indicator denotes the percentage change over each previous year of the constant price (base year 2015) series in United States dollars.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 45 values
| Year | Final consumption expenditure (annual % growth) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.54 |
| 2024 | -12.52 |
| 2023 | 2.08 |
| 2022 | 6.89 |
| 2021 | 5.63 |
| 2020 | -6.12 |
| 2019 | 8.65 |
| 2018 | 13.95 |
| 2017 | 3.77 |
| 2016 | 14.89 |
| 2015 |
Final consumption expenditure (annual % growth) in nearby economies
- Angola — 5.48% (2024)
- Benin — 7.27% (2025)
- Botswana — -1.12% (2025)
- Burkina Faso — 2.83% (2025)
- Burundi — 3.44% (2025)
- Cabo Verde — 4.31% (2025)
- Cameroon — 6.02% (2025)
- Central African Republic — 4.26% (2025)
- Chad — 3.72% (2025)
- Comoros
More economic policy & debt data for Sierra Leone
- GDP (current US$) — US$7.46 billion (2025)
- GDP (current LCU) — 169.12 billion (2025)
- GDP (constant 2015 US$) — US$10.28 billion (2025)
- GDP (constant LCU) — 67.92 billion (2025)
- GDP per capita (current US$) — US$846.3 (2025)
- GDP per capita (current LCU) — 19,175 (2025)
- GDP per capita (constant 2015 US$) — US$1,166 (2025)
- GDP per capita (constant LCU) — 7,701 (2025)
- Total reserves, including gold (current US$) — US$433.27 million (2024)
- Total reserves, excluding gold (current US$) — US$433.27 million (2024)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Sierra Leone's final consumption expenditure (annual % growth)?
- 2.54% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1981?
- It is up 5.02 percentage points from -2.48% in 1981. The highest value was 32.85% in 2013 and the lowest -18.32% in 1997.
- How does Sierra Leone rank?
- 86th highest of 132 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in final consumption expenditure (annual % growth) unusual for Sierra Leone?
- In 2025, Sierra Leone's final consumption expenditure (annual % growth) rose 15.06 percentage points on 2024 (from -12.52% to 2.54%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +0.12 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 18.08 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.8 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator NE.CON.TOTL.KD.ZG, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks; National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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