Sierra Leone

Key demographic indicators

100.8

Deaths per 1,000 live births

8,460,512

Persons

Trends in under-five mortality rate in Sierra Leone

Child health

Careseeking for ARI – percentage of children (under age 5) with acute respiratory infection symptoms whom advice or treatment was sought from a health facility or provider

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76

Diarrhoea treatment – percentage of children (under age 5) with diarrhoea who received ORS (packets or pre-packaged fluids)

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85

ITN use by children – percentage of children (under age 5) who slept under an insecticide-treated mosquito net the night prior to the survey

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59

Percentage of households with at least one insecticide-treated mosquito net (ITN)

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68

Percentage of surviving infants who received the third dose of DTP-containing vaccine

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91

Percentage of children who received the 2nd dose of measles-containing vaccine, as per administered in the national schedule

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73

Child protection

Percentage of children under age 5 whose births are registered

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90

Percentage of women (aged 20-24 years) married or in union before age 18

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30

Percentage of children (aged 5-17 years) engaged in child labour (economic activities and household chores)

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25

Percentage of children (aged 1-14 years) who experienced any physical punishment and/or psychological aggression by caregivers

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87

Percentage of women (aged 15-49 years) who consider a husband to be justified in hitting or beating his wife for at least one of the specified reasons

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53

Percentage of men (aged 15-49 years) who consider a husband to be justified in hitting or beating his wife for at least one of the specified reasons

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Percentage of girls and women (aged 15-49 years) who have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM)

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83

Child survival