Stacked bars
What Sierra Leone's economy runs on
Spending by households, government and investment, and net exports, as shares of GDP each year
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
World Bank national accounts. The parts can miss 100 by a few points (the statistical discrepancy).
What this chart reads
- Sierra Leone · Household Consumption · % of GDPas “Households”latest 2025-12-31
- Sierra Leone · Government Consumption · % of GDPas “Government”latest 2025-12-31
- Sierra Leone · Investment (Gross Capital Formation) · % of GDPas “Investment”latest 2025-12-31
- Sierra Leone · Net Exports · % of GDPas “Net exports”latest 2025-12-31
Sources
Sierra Leone · Household Consumption · % of GDP. Source: The World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator NE.CON.PRVT.ZS ("Households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (% of GDP)"), from national accounts data compiled by the World Bank and the OECD. Licence CC BY 4.0 (the indicator's WDI metadata License_Type, checked 2026-10-21); attribution: The World Bank, World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NE.CON.PRVT.ZS. Synced monthly.
Sierra Leone · Government Consumption · % of GDP. Source: The World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator NE.CON.GOVT.ZS ("General government final consumption expenditure (% of GDP)"), from national accounts data compiled by the World Bank and the OECD. Licence CC BY 4.0 (the indicator's WDI metadata License_Type, checked 2026-10-21); attribution: The World Bank, World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NE.CON.GOVT.ZS. Synced monthly.
Sierra Leone · Investment (Gross Capital Formation) · % of GDP. Source: The World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator NE.GDI.TOTL.ZS ("Gross capital formation (% of GDP)"), from national accounts data compiled by the World Bank and the OECD. Licence CC BY 4.0 (the indicator's WDI metadata License_Type, checked 2026-10-21); attribution: The World Bank, World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NE.GDI.TOTL.ZS. Synced monthly.
Sierra Leone · Net Exports · % of GDP. Source: The World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator NE.RSB.GNFS.ZS ("External balance on goods and services (% of GDP)"), from national accounts data compiled by the World Bank and the OECD. Licence CC BY 4.0 (the indicator's WDI metadata License_Type, checked 2026-10-21); attribution: The World Bank, World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NE.RSB.GNFS.ZS. Synced monthly.
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