Sierra Leone - Current economic position and prospects (Vol. 4 of 5) : Annex 4 : education and annex 5 : transportation

Report No. 494a-SL M Sierra Leone F8: Gor Current Economic Position and Prospects (In Five Volumes) Volume IV: Annex 4: Education Annex 5: Transportation November 27, 1974 Western Africa Region Not for Public Use Document of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development International Development Association This report was prepared for official use only by the Bank Group. It may not be published, quoted or (ited without Bank Croup authorization. The Bank Group does not ace pt responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of the report.  CURRENCY EQUIVALENTS Currency Unit : Leone (Le) a fixed parity exists between the Leone and the pound sterling: ;6 , Le 2 The Leone floats against the dollar. Between February 1973 and April 1974 the rate at the end of each month has fluctuated as follows: US$ 1 = Le 0.877 - 0.775 Throughout this report the following rates have been used for the conversion of Leone into US dollars and vice versa: 1968 and earlier: US$ 1 = Le 0.714 1967 : US$ 1 = Le 0.735 1968 - 1971 : US$ 1 = Le 0.833 1972 : Us$ 1 = Le 0.816 197i : US$ 1 = Le 0.833  PREFACE This report is based on the findings of an Economic Mission which visited Sierra Leone in November/December 1973. The following participated in the Mission and in the writing of the Report: Emmerich M. Schebeck - Chief of Mission Hendrik T.'Koppen - General Economist Roger S. Smith - Fiscal 8eonomist (IMF) Cornelius P. Cacho - Planning/Administration Specialist Gerald L. Karr - Agricultural Economist (Consultant) Gerhard Gerhardsen - Fishery Specialist (Consultant) Judith A. Edstrom - Education Economist Claude Delapierre - Transport Specialist Rolf Giisten - Transport Economist Ibrahim Kande - General Xconomist -(ADB) Luz R. Pangilinan - Mission Secretary Ms. Edstrom and Messrs. Delapierre and Gusten visited Sierra Leone in the spring of 1974.   Page 1 of 3 pages ODUNThY DATA-SIKARA LEONE AREA MPULATION DENSITY 71,70 kcm2 2.73 million (mid-1972) Per krnof arebla lard SOCIAL INDICATORS Reference Countries Sierra Leone Liber4a Coast 960 01900 19 ? 1970 1 DNP PER CAPITA US$ (ATLAS bASIS) 180 190 Ia 250 /a 3b10 a 380 /a DEMOGRAPhrC Crude rth rate (per thousand) 4. 45 /b 50 /d ad 46 /b 50 /b Crude death rate (per thousand) ,. 23 7 21 , 23 7S 22 7S Inrant mortality rate (per thousand line births) .. 183 15S lSad 140 7c . Life expectancy at birth (years) ,.41 53 a 2 77 44 /b Gross reproduction rate ,. 2 9 2 6 /b 3.1 /b 3.3 /b Population growt.T rate^l 2.22 22 c 3.1 Tc 3.4 7S 2.9 Ic Population growCl rate - urban 4 L/ac I - ' 7 14 ,A Age structure (percent) 0-14 37 /1 42 /ac 42 /d 42 /ac 46 15-61 5 87.T 5 5 7a,,,. 55T 52 In 65 and over 5 7r 37*c 3,3 _ 3c De,endency ratio A 1.0 7 1.i Tr 1.2 __ 1.0 77 1.3 7i Urban population an percent of total 11 /eac 1 I /e,a c 26 Ip2d 28 /i 30 /k Faily planning: No. of ecceptors cuoulative (thous.) , .. No. of users (% of married uomsen) WLPOYWNT Tote labor force (thousands) 940 /1 1,050 /o 580 2,301 1,600on Percentage employed in agriculture 75 7T 73 T 72 78 69 7c Percentage unemployed 3 71 2.3 T 20 /s 9 10 7 ,t INCOME DISTRDBUTION Percent of sationai income receivad by highest 5% . 148 la 60 C,. Percent of national income received by highest 20% .. 67 7a . Percent of national incose received by lowest 20% .. 4 7' 1. Percent ar national incon received by lowaot 40% ,. 10 7T 13 10 DISTRIBUTION OF LAND O*NSRNSHP S owned by top 1`C Of owners % owned by smallest 10% of owners HEALTH AND NUTRITION Population per physician 19,000 /c 15,800 10,450 /n 12,140 13,C80 /I Pupulaticon per nursing person 2,4007 v 1,740 4,140 7 2,480 /w 2,940 7jj Population per hospital bed 1,450 __ 700 5307 680 T 310 7.; Per capita calorie supply as S of requirenente .. 90 /z 95I 101 /z 92 /z Per capita protein supply, total (grans per dayl / .. 49 7T hi7 59 77 69 77 Of which, animal and pulse s 16 77 10 77 T8 77 25 77 Death rain 1-i years /7 .. - 21 78 N 00C A CON Adju3ted /8 primary school enrollmont ratio 27 34 73 71 85 Adjusted Z econdary school enrollment ratio 411 12 11 12 Tears of ofbooling provided, first and "econd level 12 12 12 12 12 Vocational enrollomnt an % of sec. school enrollsent 2 5 35 /o. Adult literacy rate S 15 In 12 /u 201 43 7Tb HOUSINO Average No. of persons per rooe (urban) ,, 2.1 2... . Percent of occupied units rithout piped water Acce.s to ele=tricity (as % of total Population) 'I Percent Of fural population connected ti electricity 2 /c CONSUM'IO Radio recivers per 1000 population 4 56 In 132 17 / ac i8 Passenger oars per 1000 population 2 9 10 11 77an IL tlectric poas, consumiption (kwh p.c.) 19 78 4129 120 932 Newsprint consumption p.c. kg per year 0.09 0.08 0.01 /ac 0.2 0.5 Notes, Figures refer either to the latest periods or to account of environmental teperature, body weighte, and the latest yearn. LItest periods refer in principle to distribution by age and sex of rational pOPulatins. the years 1956-60 or 1966-70; the latent yeara 1,, prin- /6 Protein standards (requiroenta) for all countries as estab- ciple to 1960 and 1970. lished by USDA Econondo Research Service provide for a incimeua /a The Per CepitL GOP estimate is at nrk,et pricen for allowance of 60 graim of total protein per day, acu 20 grais of ycars other than 1960,calculated by the cane conversion animal and pulse protein, of which 10 greas snould be anisal techniqua es the 1972 World Bank Atles. protein. These atandards are asewbat lewer t-han those of 75 /2 Average nosber of daughters per woman of reproductive grass of total protein anid 23 grass of animaln protein as a age, average for the world, proposed by FAO in the Third World Poond /) Population growth rat.s are for the decades ending in Survey. 1960 and 1970. 7 Some rtodiea have suggested that crude death rates of children /% Ratio of under 15 and 65 and over age brackets to ages 1 through 4 say be used as a firat approximation index of those in labor force bracket of ages 15 through 61. salnutrition. / FAO reference standerdn represent physiological re- L