Sierra Leone has a complex history tied to the transatlantic slave trade and the founding of Freetown as a settlement for freed slaves.
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These figures are calculated from the data on this page and compared with the other 195 countries Beelad covers.
| Population density | 118 people per km² rank 77 of 196 (highest first); the average across all 196 countries is 60 per km² |
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| Share of world population | 0.105 % world total: 8,091,734,930 (UN, 1 July 2023) |
| Share of Africa | 0.572% of its people, 0.239% of its land area |
| Area in square miles | 27,699 1 km² = 0.386 sq mi |
| Closest in size | Ireland (70,273 km²) |
| Closest in population | Switzerland (8,870,561 people) |
Sierra Leone is the only country in our list that uses SLE.