Health in Sierra Leone 1,206 indicators covering health for Sierra Leone. IndicatorLatest Year10-yr change Rank Number of deaths ages 20-24 years, male 1,625 2024 up 17.7% 57th Adolescent mortality rate 9.55 2024 down 5.5% 5th Mortality rate for 5-14 year-olds 23.13 2024 down 9.8% 3rd Mortality rate among children ages 5 to 9 years 13.71 2024 down 12.6% 4th Number of deaths among adolescents 1,982 2024 up 13.0% 43rd Number of deaths among children 5 to 14 years of age 4,979 2024 up 3.9% 40th Number of deaths among children ages 5 to 9 years 2,997 2024 down 1.4% 36th Terrorism deaths 0 2021 — 59th Share of deaths from terrorism 0 2021 — 58th Deaths from terrorism by target 0 2021 — 2nd Deaths from suicide and non suicide terrorist attacks 0 2021 — 59th Suicide and other terrorist attacks 0 2021 — 80th Deaths from terrorist attacks by method of attack stacked bar 0 2021 — 21st Terrorism deaths rate 0 2021 — 59th Deaths from terrorist attacks by method 0 2021 — 21st Prevalence of HIV, total 1.4% 2024 down 12.5% 28th Number of people who are undernourished 2.00 million 2023 up 25.0% 49th People using safely managed sanitation services, urban 24.3% 2024 up 50.8% 108th External health expenditure channeled through government 0.0% 2023 down 100.0% 129th Mortality from ncds sdgs 23.9 2021 down 9.5% 39th Mortality from ncds gender 23 2021 down 11.5% 72nd Healthy life expectancy at birth 53.13 2021 up 9.5% 170th Death rates from mental and substance disorders by age who 0 2021 — 1st Death rate from cardiomyopathy myocarditis endocarditis who ghe age st 11.06 2021 down 5.3% 26th Mortality from CVD, cancer, diabetes or CRD between exact ages 30 and 24.7% 2021 down 7.5% 20th Mortality from CVD, cancer, diabetes or CRD between exact ages 30 and 23.0% 2021 down 11.5% 72nd Mortality from CVD, cancer, diabetes or CRD between exact ages 30 and 23.9% 2021 down 9.5% 39th Mortality rate attributed to unintentional poisoning 1.24 per 100,000 population 2021 up 3.3% 37th Mortality rate attributed to unintentional poisoning, female 0.88 per 100,000 female population 2021 up 10.0% 43rd Mortality rate attributed to unintentional poisoning, male 1.6 per 100,000 male population 2021 unchanged 35th Suicide mortality rate, female 4.48 per 100,000 female population 2021 up 6.4% 68th Suicide mortality rate, male 7.8 per 100,000 male population 2021 up 5.1% 121st Suicide mortality rate 6.14 per 100,000 population 2021 up 5.9% 107th Nurses and midwives 1.16 per 1,000 people 2022 up 324.5% 154th Share of women among the population living with hiv 64.84 2024 up 8.2% 16th Population with primary reliance on polluting fuels and technologies 4.71 2023 up 17.3% 48th Proportion of population with primary reliance on polluting fuels and 100.0% 2023 up 0.2% 1st Population with primary reliance on clean fuels and technologies for 0 2023 down 100.0% 182nd Diabetes prevalence who gho 6.9 2014 up 25.5% 140th Child mortality rate ihme 10.21 2019 down 35.9% 7th Neonatal mortality ihme 2.86 2019 down 24.5% 13th Number of neonatal deaths ihme 8,028 2019 down 15.8% 48th Total alcohol consumption per capita, female (liters of pure alcohol) 0.073 2020 down 6.4% 166th Total alcohol consumption per capita (liters of pure alcohol) 0.29 2020 down 6.5% 166th Total alcohol consumption per capita, male (liters of pure alcohol) 0.52 2020 down 5.5% 166th Low-birthweight babies 10.3% 2020 down 11.8% 75th Antiretroviral therapy coverage among people living with hiv 86 2024 up 473.3% 33rd Diabetes treatment coverage, crude 16.56 2022 up 8.9% 172nd Prevalence of diabetes, age-standardized 11.37 2022 up 31.1% 108th Prevalence of diabetes, crude 9.6 2022 up 36.2% 146th Diabetes treatment coverage, age-standardized 18.24 2022 up 11.3% 171st Inequality in life expectancy 0.3512 2023 down 21.9% 7th Inequality in life expectancy vs health expenditure per capita 0.3512 2023 down 21.9% 7th Child mortality under five death rate by wealth group 9.22 2024 down 33.6% 9th Risk of catastrophic expenditure for surgical care 84.3% 2019 down 11.9% 10th Risk of impoverishing expenditure for surgical care 93.4% 2019 down 3.4% 7th Maternal mortality ratio vs gdp per capita 442.83 2020 down 47.1% 17th Maternal mortality slope chart 442.83 2020 down 47.1% 18th The maternal mortality ratio in 1985 and 2020 442.83 2020 down 47.1% 18th Number of maternal deaths by region 1,165 2020 down 44.4% 39th ← Previous Page 8 of 21 Next →