Share of deaths from infections — all countries

Share of deaths from infections — Sierra Leone

Share of deaths from infections in Sierra Leone in 2021 — 57.6%. Ranked 172 in the world out of 185. Since 2000, the indicator has fallen by 18.8 pp.

2021 57.6% −0.5 pp vs 2020
World rank 172of 185
Period maximum 76.3%2000
Period minimum 57.6%2021

Trend over time

2000–2021 · % of total deaths

Share of deaths from infections — Sierra Leone, 2000–2021556065707580200020032006200920122015201820212000: 76.3%2010: 68.3%2015: 66.7%2019: 57.7%2020: 58.1%2021: 57.6%
Change over the period: −18.8 pp Annual average: -0.89 pp

Comparison, 2021

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone 57.6%
World 27.4%
Share of deaths from infections — Sierra Leone, by year Sierra Leone All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2021 57.6 −0.5 pp
2020 58.1 +0.4 pp
2019 57.7
2015 66.7
2010 68.3
2000 76.3

About the indicator

The share of deaths from infectious diseases, and also from conditions related to pregnancy and childbirth and from undernutrition, in the total number of deaths during a year. The group is brought together for a reason: all these causes retreat roughly at the same time as incomes rise and health care develops, and their combined share serves as one of the clearest measures of the stage of the epidemiological transition a country is at. The spread is enormous: from a few percent in Europe to half of all deaths in the poorest countries of Africa.

Important: There are no aggregates by country group: a weight by the total number of deaths is needed, and we do not have it. The group takes in not only infections but also maternal mortality and undernutrition, so the share is higher than one might expect from infectious diseases alone.

Source: Global Health Observatory (WHO), license CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.