Private Sector & Trade · Sierra Leone
Yearly data from 1960 to 2025, from the World Bank.
Sierra Leone's merchandise exports (current US$) was US$1.53 billion in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 199.61% from US$512 million in 2015 (11.6% a year on average, compounded).
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | US$1.53 billion | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | US$423 million | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | US$512 million | 2015 |
| Highest | US$1.92 billion | 2013 |
| Lowest | US$6 million | 1999 |
| Average since 2016 | US$885.8 million | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | US$83 million | 1960 |
Over five years it is up 262.65% from US$423 million in 2020 (29.39% a year on average, compounded). Since 1960 it is up 1,748% from US$83 million in 1960 (4.59% a year on average, compounded).
In 2025, Sierra Leone's merchandise exports (current US$) rose 6.8% on 2024 (from US$1.44 billion to US$1.53 billion).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +23.9% and a typical year strayed about 62% from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.3 standard deviations below 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 220.6% in 2012 and the biggest yearly fall was 67% in 2015. 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 upward, about US$119.37 million a year. A straight line explains 76% 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.
In 2025, Sierra Leone had the 151st highest value of the 204 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 | US$1.53 billion | 2025 |
| World | US$26.39 trillion | 2025 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | US$486.8 billion | 2025 |
| Low income | US$106.71 billion | 2025 |
Merchandise exports includes goods whose economic ownership is changed from a resident to a non-resident and that are not included in the following specific categories: goods under merchanting, non-monetary gold, and parts of travel, construction, and government goods and services n.i.e. This indicator is expressed in current prices, meaning no adjustment has been made to account for price changes over time. This indicator is expressed in United States dollars.
Limitations: Exports are recorded as the cost of the goods delivered to the frontier of the exporting country for shipment - the free on board (f.o.b.) value. Countries may report trade according to the general or special system of trade. Under the general system exports comprise outward-moving goods that are (a) goods wholly or partly produced in the country; (b) foreign goods, neither transformed nor declared for domestic consumption in the country, that move outward from customs storage; and (c) goods previously included as imports for domestic consumption but subsequently exported without transformation. Under the special system exports comprise categories a and c.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a gap-filled total.
| Year | Merchandise exports (current US$) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,534,000,000 |
| 2024 | 1,437,000,000 |
| 2023 | 1,328,000,000 |
| 2022 | 1,059,000,000 |
| 2021 | 697,000,000 |
| 2020 | 423,000,000 |
| 2019 | 635,000,000 |
| 2018 | 554,000,000 |
| 2017 | 567,000,000 |
| 2016 | 624,000,000 |
| 2015 | 512,000,000 |
| 2014 | 1,552,000,000 |
| 2013 | 1,917,000,000 |
| 2012 | 1,122,000,000 |
| 2011 | 350,000,000 |
| 2010 | 341,000,000 |
| 2009 | 231,000,000 |
| 2008 | 216,000,000 |
| 2007 | 245,000,000 |
| 2006 | 231,000,000 |
| 2005 | 158,000,000 |
| 2004 | 139,000,000 |
| 2003 | 92,000,000 |
| 2002 | 49,000,000 |
| 2001 | 29,000,000 |
| 2000 | 13,000,000 |
| 1999 | 6,000,000 |
| 1998 | 7,000,000 |
| 1997 | 17,000,000 |
| 1996 | 47,000,000 |
| 1995 | 42,000,000 |
| 1994 | 115,000,000 |
| 1993 | 118,000,000 |
| 1992 | 149,000,000 |
| 1991 | 145,000,000 |
| 1990 | 138,000,000 |
| 1989 | 138,000,000 |
| 1988 | 106,000,000 |
| 1987 | 130,000,000 |
| 1986 | 144,000,000 |
| 1985 | 130,000,000 |
| 1984 | 133,000,000 |
| 1983 | 119,000,000 |
| 1982 | 111,000,000 |
| 1981 | 150,000,000 |
| 1980 | 224,000,000 |
| 1979 | 200,000,000 |
| 1978 | 170,000,000 |
| 1977 | 136,000,000 |
| 1976 | 99,000,000 |
| 1975 | 118,000,000 |
| 1974 | 144,000,000 |
| 1973 | 131,000,000 |
| 1972 | 115,000,000 |
| 1971 | 98,000,000 |
| 1970 | 101,000,000 |
| 1969 | 106,000,000 |
| 1968 | 96,000,000 |
| 1967 | 70,000,000 |
| 1966 | 83,000,000 |
| 1965 | 88,000,000 |
| 1964 | 95,000,000 |
| 1963 | 81,000,000 |
| 1962 | 57,000,000 |
| 1961 | 82,000,000 |
| 1960 | 83,000,000 |
Every indicator for Sierra Leone is on the Sierra Leone data page.
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator TX.VAL.MRCH.CD.WT, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: World Trade Organization (WTO) 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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