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Age structure:
0-14 years:
44.73% (male 1,148,264; female 1,192,533)
15-64 years:
52.16% (male 1,305,039; female 1,424,076)
65 years and over:
3.11% (male 81,291; female 81,421) (2000 est.)
Population growth rate: 3.67% (2000 est.)
Birth rate: 45.63 births/1,000 population (2000 est.)
Death rate: 19.58 deaths/1,000 population (2000 est.)
Net migration rate:
10.61 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2000 est.)
note:
by the end of 1999 refugees from Sierra Leone are assumed to be returning
Sex ratio:
at birth:
1.03 male(s)/female
under 15 years:
0.96 male(s)/female
15-64 years:
0.92 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
1 male(s)/female
total population:
0.94 male(s)/female (2000 est.)
Infant mortality rate: 148.66 deaths/1,000 live births (2000 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
45.25 years
male:
42.37 years
female:
48.21 years (2000 est.)
Total fertility rate: 6.08 children born/woman (2000 est.)
Nationality:
noun:
Sierra Leonean(s)
adjective:
Sierra Leonean
Ethnic groups: 20 native African tribes 90% (Temne[?] 30%, Mende[?] 30%, other 30%), Creole 10% (descendants of freed slaves from the Americas, Jamaica, and recaptured slaves from West Africa who were re-settled in the Freetown area in the late-eighteenth century), refugees from Liberia's recent civil war, small numbers of Europeans, Lebanese, Pakistanis, and Indians
Religions: Muslim 60%, indigenous beliefs 30%, Christian 10%
Languages: English (official, regular use limited to literate minority), Mende (principal vernacular in the south), Temne (principal vernacular in the north), Krio (English-based Creole, spoken by the descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area, a lingua franca and a first language for 10% of the population but understood by 95%)
Literacy:
definition:
age 15 and over can read and write English, Mende, Temne, or Arabic
total population:
31.4%
male:
45.4%
female:
18.2% (1995 est.)
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