Below is an image of doctors in Sierra Leone treating Ebola.
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~Economy~
GDP- Growth Domestic Product:
--The GDP is only 1.9 million US dollars, this country is listed as a "least developed country."
Only 2 years ago the World Bank listed Sierra Leone's trade market at 147th position while the CIA rated it 153rd position. For a long time, the government has thought that their gold and diamond resources are enough earnings specific to the Foreign Exchange market, and enough to bring investors in. But these things are not making the money this country needs.
Exports
-Minerals
-Coffee
-Fish
-Rutile (a type of titanium)
-Diamonds
-These products are brought out of the country for other places to manufacture and sell. For example, diamonds are boxed up in factories, put onto rings, necklaces, bracelets, ect. Other countries who are richer have better materials to process these goods can create something different out of them.
Imports
-Rice
-Refined Petroleum
-Iron Structures
-Packaged Medicines
-Delivery Trucks
-Sierra Leone is mainly abundant in minerals so they need more mechanical or technological things brought in to sustain an economy.
Agricultural Products
-Rice: The villagers use their major abundance of this to feed the citizens, and not so much for trade.
-Cassava:
-Millet
-Sweet Potato
-Groundnut
Major Trade Partners
-Belgium (35.6%)
-United States (20.1%)
-India (15.2%)
Common Jobs/Work
-Subsistence Agricultural is the majority of Sierra Leone's rural community.
-Food Processing
-Mining: But this industry has almost completely stopped since the 1991 conflict along with:
-Tourism
Problems
-The smuggling of Sierra Leone's diamonds
-Economic growth is still increasing, but is extremely low after the Civil War
-Poverty
Successes
-Rich minerals and an abundance of diamonds
-Tourism majors along the white sandy beaches and lush forests.
-Sierra Leone is in the UN's league for human developments now even after a huge economic corruption