Sierra Leone's transport services (% of service imports, BoP) was 64.38% in 2024, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 48.5 percentage points from 15.88% in 2014.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 64.38% | 2024 |
| Five years earlier | 39.63% | 2019 |
| Ten years earlier | 15.88% | 2014 |
| Highest | 72.13% | 2023 |
| Lowest | 8.61% | 1999 |
| Average since 2015 | 50.66% | 2015–2024 |
| First recorded | 40.45% | 1977 |
What the numbers say
In 2024, Sierra Leone's transport services (% of service imports, BoP) fell 7.75 percentage points on 2023 (from 72.13% to 64.38%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1994 to 2023), the average change was +1.58 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 10.93 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.9 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 27.24 percentage points in 2020 and the biggest yearly fall was 22.43 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 2015 to 2024 the straight-line trend is upward, about 5.87 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 85% 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 2024, Sierra Leone had the 5th highest value of the 29 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 | 64.38% | 2024 |
| World | 18.72% | 2025 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 35.2% | 2025 |
| Low income | 52.4% | 2024 |
Closest to Sierra Leone in the 2024 ranking
What this measures
Transport services covers the process of carriage of people and objects from one location to another as well as related supporting and auxiliary services. Also included are postal and courier services. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of service imports which are services provided by non-residents to residents.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 48 values
| Year | Transport services (% of service imports, BoP) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 64.38 |
| 2023 | 72.13 |
| 2022 | 70.03 |
| 2021 | 66.56 |
| 2020 | 66.87 |
| 2019 | 39.63 |
| 2018 | 39.35 |
| 2017 | 38.92 |
| 2016 | 29.72 |
| 2015 | 19.05 |
| 2014 |
Transport services (% of service imports, BoP) in nearby economies
- Angola — 39.4% (2025)
- Benin — 40.99% (2023)
- Botswana — 25.53% (2025)
- Burkina Faso — 51.02% (2024)
- Burundi — 57.8% (2025)
- Cabo Verde — 29.68% (2025)
- Cameroon — 45.93% (2024)
- Comoros — 40.55% (2023)
- Congo, Dem. Rep. — 44.37% (2025)
- Congo, Rep. — 33.24% (2021)
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 transport services (% of service imports, BoP)?
- 64.38% in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1977?
- It is up 23.94 percentage points from 40.45% in 1977. The highest value was 72.13% in 2023 and the lowest 8.61% in 1999.
- How does Sierra Leone rank?
- 5th highest of 29 economies with data for 2024.
- Is the latest change in transport services (% of service imports, BoP) unusual for Sierra Leone?
- In 2024, Sierra Leone's transport services (% of service imports, BoP) fell 7.75 percentage points on 2023 (from 72.13% to 64.38%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1994 to 2023), the average change was +1.58 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 10.93 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.9 standard deviations below 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 BM.GSR.TRAN.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF) 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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