This report tracks consumer inflation and the Consumer Price Index in Sierra Leone, including recent values, long-term trends and international comparisons.
Consumer inflation in Sierra Leone was 28.6% in 2024, down from 47.6% in 2023. The Consumer Price Index reached 771.8 in 2025, representing a +190.5% change over five years and a +475.5% change over ten years.
In the common comparison year 2024, Sierra Leone recorded the 12th-highest consumer inflation rate among 193 economies with available data.
Sierra Leone Consumer Prices and Inflation by Year
Data source: World Bank, World Development Indicators — Consumer Price Index (2010 = 100) (FP.CPI.TOTL); Consumer inflation, annual % (FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG).
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About the Indicators
Consumer Price Index (2010 = 100). Measures the change over time in the prices of a fixed basket of goods and services typically purchased by households, expressed as an index with the year 2010 set to 100. Compiled by national statistical agencies from regular retail price surveys.
Inflation, consumer prices, annual %. The year-on-year percentage change in the Consumer Price Index, the standard measure of how quickly the cost of living is rising or falling for the average household.