Skilled and Cost Effective Labor
Sierra Leone has a large & youthful workforce
Sierra Leone is expected to have a forecasted labor force of 3m persons by 20241
Sierra Leone has approximately 1.3m students in secondary education and 660,000 students in Tertiary education2
The minimum monthly wage rate was changed in 2014 to 500,000 Sierra Leonean Leones per month or USD $48 as of 2021
1: International Labour Organization: ILOSTAT Database, 2020 – link
2: UNESCO, Institute for Statistics, 2021 - link
Sierra Leone is competitive in labor costs across the agricultural value chain
Annual Salaries for professions in the Agricultural value chain (in $)
2019
Source: fDi Benchmark, a service from fDi Intelligence Financial Times Limited
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