# Child mortality rate: Sierra Leone

9.05% in 2024, the latest year published. Figures for 69 years from 1956 to 2024 are below.

Long-run estimated share of newborns who die before reaching the age of five.

Source: Gapminder (2015); UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (2025) – processed by Our World in Data. [Source and method](/sources/child-mortality) · [All countries and regions](/child-mortality).

## Every year

| Year | Value (deaths per 100 live births) |
| ---: | ---: |
| 2024 | 9.05 |
| 2023 | 9.38 |
| 2022 | 9.71 |
| 2021 | 10.06 |
| 2020 | 10.44 |
| 2019 | 10.83 |
| 2018 | 11.24 |
| 2017 | 11.7 |
| 2016 | 12.18 |
| 2015 | 13.68 |
| 2014 | 13.59 |
| 2013 | 13.79 |
| 2012 | 14.41 |
| 2011 | 15.08 |
| 2010 | 15.79 |
| 2009 | 16.52 |
| 2008 | 17.24 |
| 2007 | 17.96 |
| 2006 | 18.65 |
| 2005 | 19.32 |
| 2004 | 19.96 |
| 2003 | 20.57 |
| 2002 | 21.16 |
| 2001 | 21.73 |
| 2000 | 22.28 |
| 1999 | 22.82 |
| 1998 | 23.31 |
| 1997 | 23.79 |
| 1996 | 24.22 |
| 1995 | 24.59 |
| 1994 | 24.91 |
| 1993 | 25.17 |
| 1992 | 25.38 |
| 1991 | 25.6 |
| 1990 | 25.8 |
| 1989 | 26.01 |
| 1988 | 26.22 |
| 1987 | 26.48 |
| 1986 | 26.75 |
| 1985 | 27.03 |
| 1984 | 27.31 |
| 1983 | 27.61 |
| 1982 | 27.92 |
| 1981 | 28.26 |
| 1980 | 28.61 |
| 1979 | 29 |
| 1978 | 29.4 |
| 1977 | 29.82 |
| 1976 | 30.27 |
| 1975 | 30.72 |
| 1974 | 31.19 |
| 1973 | 31.65 |
| 1972 | 32.15 |
| 1971 | 32.66 |
| 1970 | 33.21 |
| 1969 | 33.75 |
| 1968 | 34.32 |
| 1967 | 34.9 |
| 1966 | 35.51 |
| 1965 | 36.11 |
| 1964 | 36.72 |
| 1963 | 37.29 |
| 1962 | 37.87 |
| 1961 | 38.44 |
| 1960 | 39 |
| 1959 | 39.58 |
| 1958 | 40.14 |
| 1957 | 40.77 |
| 1956 | 41.38 |

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