Sierra Leone vs Tuvalu: Economic Indicators Comparison

Sierra Leone with a GDP of $4.1B ranked the 161st largest economy in the world, while Tuvalu ranked 196th with $42.6M. By GDP per capita, Sierra Leone and Tuvalu ranked 189th vs 124th, respectively.

Gross Domestic Product & Income

Stat	Sierra Leone	Tuvalu
GDP	$4.1B	$42.6M
GDP growth, 1 year	3.7%	2.5%
GDP growth, 5-years average	-0.4%	N/A
Population	7.6M	11k
GDP per capita	$534	$3.7k
GDP per capita growth	1.26%	1.27%
Purchasing Power Parity conversion factor	2643.88	1.22
Price level ratio of PPP conversion factor GDP to market exchange rate	0.33	0.91
GDP per capita, PPP adjusted	$1.6k	$4k
GNI, Atlas method	$3.7B	$62.5M
GNI per capita	$490	$5.4k
GNI, PPP adjusted	$11.4B	$70.2M
GNI per capita, PPP adjusted	$1.5k	$6.1k

Financial system and Human development

Stat	Sierra Leone	Tuvalu
Income Tax Rate	15%	N/A
Corporate Tax Rate	30%	N/A
Inflation, consumer prices	16.9%	N/A
Inflation, GDP deflator	13.4%	4.9%
Unemployment	4.3%	8.5%
Economic Freedom Index	48	60
Personal Freedom Index	6.55	6.2
Human Freedom Index	6.24	6.1
Property Rights Index	40.7	N/A
Judical Effectiveness Index	39.4	N/A
Business Freedom Index	50.1	N/A
Fiscal Health Index	9.8	N/A
Labor Freedom Index	29.7	N/A
Investment Freedom Index	60	N/A
Financial Freedom Index	20	N/A
Trade Freedom Index	69.4	N/A
Monetary Freedom Index	64.2	N/A
Government Spending Index	83.5	N/A
Tax Burden Index	87.5	N/A
Government Integrity Index	21.8	N/A
Corruption Perceptions Index	30	48
Life expectancy at birth, years	53.9	66
Suicide mortality rate, per 100,000 people	9.7	1
Mortality caused by road traffic injury, per 100,000 people	27.3	0.2
Intentional homicides, per 100,000 people	1.7	18.7
International tourism, number of arrivals	57k	2.7k

Government debt & reserves

Stat	Sierra Leone	Tuvalu
Central government debt, % of GDP	71.3%	N/A
External debt stocks, % of GNI	45.1%	N/A
External debt stocks	$1.7B	N/A
Short-term debt, % of total reserves	37.5%	N/A
Total debt service, % of exports and primary income	7.2%	N/A
Adjusted net savings including particulate emission damage, % of GNI	-33.5%	N/A
Gross savings, % of GDP	-7.3%	N/A
Gross capital formation, % of GDP	13.6%	N/A
Total reserves including gold	$502.6M	N/A
Foreign direct investment net inflows	$217.8M	$299k

Exports, imports and economic structure

Stat	Sierra Leone	Tuvalu
Exports of goods and services, % of GDP	17.5%	N/A
Imports of goods and services, % of GDP	39.2%	N/A
Current account balance (balance of payments)	-$646.1M	$6.8M
Revenue excluding grants, % of GDP	N/A	N/A
Grants excluding technical cooperation, BoP	$375.1M	$9.6M
Personal remittances received	$62.1M	$4M
Industry including construction value added, % of GDP	5.3%	7.3%
Agriculture, forestry and fishing value added, % of GDP	58.9%	16.5%
Charges for the use of intellectual property, payments BoP	$892k	N/A
Charges for the use of intellectual property, receipts BoP	$5.8M	$14k
Expense, % of GDP	N/A	N/A
Government Expenditure, % of GDP	23.4%	N/A