Sierra Leone's GNI (annual % growth) was 4.64% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 10.12 percentage points from -5.48% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 4.64% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 0.42% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | -5.48% | 2015 |
| Highest | 25.59% | 2002 |
| Lowest | -5.88% | 2014 |
| Average since 2016 | 4.07% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 25.59% | 2002 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Sierra Leone's GNI (annual % growth) rose 5.11 percentage points on 2024 (from -0.47% to 4.64%).
Across the 22 yearly changes before that (2003 to 2024), the average change was −1.18 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 8.17 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 18.22 percentage points in 2012 and the biggest yearly fall was 17.61 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 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 15% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.
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 44th highest value of the 101 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 | 4.64% | 2025 |
| World | 2.51% | 2024 |
| Low income | 5.9% | 2025 |
Closest to Sierra Leone in the 2025 ranking
- Indonesia — 41st of 101: 5.02%
- West Bank and Gaza — 42nd of 101: 4.99%
- Kosovo — 43rd of 101: 4.75%
- Bangladesh — 45th of 101: 4.63%
- Moldova — 46th of 101: 4.61%
- Bosnia and Herzegovina — 47th of 101: 4.28%
What this measures
Gross national income is the total income earned by all residents within an economic territory during an accounting period. It is equal to gross domestic product plus earned income receivable from abroad minus earned income payable abroad. 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 24 values
| Year | GNI (annual % growth) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4.64 |
| 2024 | -0.4688 |
| 2023 | 5.04 |
| 2022 | 6.73 |
| 2021 | 2.91 |
| 2020 | 0.4245 |
| 2019 | 4.55 |
| 2018 | 3.51 |
| 2017 | 5.43 |
| 2016 | 7.92 |
| 2015 |
GNI (annual % growth) in nearby economies
- Angola — 6.94% (2024)
- Benin — 7.98% (2025)
- Botswana — -2.6% (2024)
- Burkina Faso — 14.77% (2025)
- Cabo Verde — 6.07% (2025)
- Cameroon — 2.46% (2025)
- Central African Republic — 3.37% (2025)
- Chad — 5.97% (2025)
- Comoros — 3.96% (2025)
- Congo, Dem. Rep. — 1.54% (2025)
- Congo, Rep. — -5.96% (2025)
- Côte d'Ivoire
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 GNI (annual % growth)?
- 4.64% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 2002?
- It is down 20.95 percentage points from 25.59% in 2002. The highest value was 25.59% in 2002 and the lowest -5.88% in 2014.
- How does Sierra Leone rank?
- 44th highest of 101 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in GNI (annual % growth) unusual for Sierra Leone?
- In 2025, Sierra Leone's GNI (annual % growth) rose 5.11 percentage points on 2024 (from -0.47% to 4.64%). Across the 22 yearly changes before that (2003 to 2024), the average change was −1.18 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 8.17 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 NY.GNP.MKTP.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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