Sierra Leone

The latest open data on emissions, energy and forests, compared with ten years earlier and with the world average.

In 2024, 0.2 tonnes of CO₂ per person were emitted on average, from fossil fuels and industry. The world average is 4.7.

Compared with 2014, the value has risen by 6%.

95% of electricity comes from renewables and nuclear (2024).

Forests cover 34.3% of the land (2023).

From 2001 to 2025, trees disappeared from 2,276,404 hectares: 40.5% of the area that was tree-covered in 2000.

In 2025, 3,549 hectares of old tropical forest were lost.

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All indicators

Latest available value, ten-year change (green if it moves in the direction that lightens the load on the planet, red if the opposite) and the world average in the same year.

Indicator	Latest value	In 10 years	World
Climate
CO₂ per persontonnes of CO₂ per person per year	0.172024	+0.01	4.73
Greenhouse gases per person (incl. land use)tonnes of CO₂ equivalent per person (all greenhouse gases converted to CO₂)	1.892024	−1.19	6.67
Methane per persontonnes of CO₂ equivalent per person	0.632024	−0.13	1.16
CO₂ from deforestation and land use per persontonnes of CO₂ per person per year	0.942024	−1.51	0.56
Share of historical CO₂ emissions% of all CO₂ emitted worldwide since 1750	0.002024	0.00	100.00
CO₂ per unit of GDPkg of CO₂ per dollar of wealth produced	0.1242022	+0.033	0.288
CO₂ per km² of territorytonnes of CO₂ per km² per year	202024	+4	—
Energy
Primary energy per personkWh of energy per person per year	6742023	−16	21,286
Electricity
Renewable share of electricity%	95.22024	+15.2	31.9
Low-carbon electricity (renewables and nuclear)%	95.22024	+15.2	40.9
Solar share of electricity%	9.52024	+9.5	6.9
Wind share of electricity%	0.02024	0.0	8.1
Coal share of electricity%	0.02024	0.0	34.1
Carbon intensity of electricitygrams of CO₂ equivalent per kWh of electricity	482024	−85	471
Green
Forest cover% of land covered by forest	34.32023	−2.7	—

Trees and forests

Hectares where trees were cut or burned each year (areas with at least 30% canopy), from 2001 to 2025.

2001232,762 ha max2025

On average, from 2001 to 2025, the country's forests removed 35.8 million tonnes of CO₂ from the air each year and released 45.7 through logging and fires.

Countries in the same area

Sources: Global Carbon Project, Energy Institute and Ember (via Our World in Data), FAO (via the World Bank), Global Forest Watch (University of Maryland and World Resources Institute). Details on the data page. Data