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Population trends in Sierra Leone: Total population, rural population, and percent urban, 1960–2008
6 40 30 4 20 2 10 0 1960 1970 1980 Source: World Development Indicators (World Bank 2009). 1990 2000
Total Rural Urban
2010 0
TABLE 12.1 Population growth rates in Sierra Leone, 1960–2008 (percent) Decade
1960–69 1970–79 1980–89 1990–99
2000–2008
Total growth rate 1.7 2.0 2.4
–0.1 3.5
Rural growth rate 0.9 1.2 1.8
–0.5 3.1
Source: Authors’ calculations based on World Development Indicators (World Bank 2009).
Urban growth rate 4.7 4.2 3.7 0.7 4.3
Sierra Leone is less densely populated, with large tracts of grasslands neighbor- ing the Republic of Guinea.
Income The share of Sierra Leone’s GDP earned in agriculture shows the importance of agriculture as a sector of the economy. Figure 12.3 shows trends in GDP per capita and the proportion of GDP from agriculture.