Eritrea vs Sierra Leone: Population growth

Eritrea
2.0%
in 2025
Sierra Leone
2.0%
in 2025
Eritrea rank
50th
Sierra Leone rank
47th

Population growth over time

  • Eritrea
  • Sierra Leone
-7.5-5-2.502.55196119932025

How they compare

Sierra Leone currently reports 2.0% against 2.0% in Eritrea, a difference of 0.0%.

The two have swapped places 9 times across 65 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Eritrea ahead.

Globally, Eritrea ranks 50th and Sierra Leone ranks 47th of 215 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Population growth (annual %)
Unit
annual %
Source
World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), note: Derived from total population, publisher: UN Population Division
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
264 places, 17,128 data points, 1961–2025
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Annual population growth rate for year t is the exponential rate of growth of midyear population from year t-1 to t, expressed as a percentage. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship.