Country profile · Sierra Leone
compatriots.net finds 1,941 people from abroad holding company roles, research posts or other documented positions in Sierra Leone, from 105 countries of origin; 39 of them are recorded by an official register.
The largest groups come from United States, United Kingdom, Australia.
| Country of origin | People |
|---|---|
| United States | 405 |
| United Kingdom | 387 |
| Australia | 209 |
| Nigeria | 170 |
| Ireland | 100 |
| Ghana | 84 |
| India | 83 |
| Canada | 60 |
| South Africa | 58 |
| Germany | 49 |
| Netherlands | 48 |
| South Korea | 31 |
| Kenya | 28 |
| Philippines | 28 |
| Zimbabwe | 23 |
| France | 22 |
| Lebanon | 21 |
| New Zealand | 20 |
| China | 19 |
| Pakistan | 18 |
| Italy | 17 |
| Liberia | 16 |
| Spain | 15 |
| Sri Lanka | 14 |
| Uganda | 14 |
| Gambia | 13 |
| Argentina | 10 |
| Russian Federation | 10 |
| Belgium | 9 |
| Ethiopia | 8 |
| Ukraine | 8 |
| Cameroon | 8 |
| Bangladesh | 7 |
| Switzerland | 7 |
| Mexico | 7 |
| Sweden | 7 |
| Myanmar | 7 |
| Norway | 6 |
| Brazil | 6 |
| Tanzania | 6 |
| Other | 142 |
Industry comes from company registers and is not available here.
Abroad, 6,800 people from Sierra Leone are documented in 130 other countries.
| Host country | People |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 4,381 |
| United States | 1,594 |
| Nigeria | 198 |
| Canada | 154 |
| France | 135 |
| Australia | 131 |
| Switzerland | 123 |
| Ireland | 115 |
| Spain | 114 |
| Germany | 106 |
| India | 101 |
| Netherlands | 96 |
| South Africa | 87 |
| Italy | 80 |
| China | 74 |
| Ghana | 52 |
| Sweden | 45 |
| Slovenia | 44 |
| Denmark | 40 |
| Belgium | 36 |
| United Arab Emirates | 35 |
| Ethiopia | 33 |
| Kenya | 31 |
| Norway | 30 |
| Philippines | 29 |
| Côte d'Ivoire | 28 |
| Austria | 25 |
| Liberia | 24 |
| Kuwait | 23 |
| Luxembourg | 22 |
| Malaysia | 18 |
| Bangladesh | 18 |
| Guinea | 17 |
| Saudi Arabia | 16 |
| Finland | 15 |
| Thailand | 15 |
| Brazil | 13 |
| Japan | 13 |
| Gambia | 13 |
| Slovakia | 12 |
| Other | 328 |
There is no company register for Sierra Leone in the current build. Arrivals here come from dated study-then-work moves and from research and reference records (ORCID, VIAF, Wikidata), so company roles are undercounted.
Counts are people with a documented cross-border move: an official register's nationality or birthplace, ORCID/VIAF/Wikidata records, or a dated study-then-work transition. Name-based estimates and heritage (ancestral) readings are not included in these counts. Groups under 5 people are folded into "Other".
How many company officers abroad carry names that a name-origin model places in Sierra Leone. This includes people whose families left generations ago, which the documented counts above cannot see. These are expected counts, not people, and no individual is labelled by them.
| Host country | Expected people |
|---|---|
| United States † | 1,700 |
| Canada † | 1,500 |
| South Africa | 210 |
| Nigeria | 120 |
| Switzerland | 80 |
| Isle of Man † | 20 |
| Indonesia | 10 |
| Tanzania | 9 |
| New Zealand † | 8 |
| Spain † | 7 |
| Ghana | 5 |
| Other | 20 |
Registers where the estimate fails, or cannot take, a check against recorded nationality are left out, among them United Kingdom, Australia, France, Guinea, Norway, Angola. † marks a host where most names point abroad; read its figure as ancestry, not migration. How this is estimated.