Capture fisheries production in Sierra Leone

Capture fisheries in Sierra Leone landed 208,810 tonnes in 2024.

Measure: Capture fisheries production Unit: Metric tonnes Data: 1960 to 2024 Source: World Bank
Sierra Leone, 2024 208,810 Metric tonnes
Change from 2023 +0.9% 2023: 206,900 tonnes
World, 2024 94,403,126 tonnes Official aggregate
Position in 2024 61st of 215 See the full ranking

Capture fisheries production in Sierra Leone over time

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Metric tonnes. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Capture fisheries production (metric tonnes), 2000 to 2024
Period Sierra LeoneWorld
2024 208,810 tonnes 94,403,126 tonnes
2023 206,900 tonnes 92,981,262 tonnes
2022 215,140 tonnes 93,221,970 tonnes
2021 204,900 tonnes 93,590,253 tonnes
2020 200,630 tonnes 91,609,572 tonnes
2019 202,100 tonnes 94,910,375 tonnes
2018 202,100 tonnes 98,740,431 tonnes
2017 202,100 tonnes 95,664,397 tonnes
2016 202,100 tonnes 92,195,579 tonnes
2015 202,100 tonnes 94,357,557 tonnes
2014 206,477 tonnes 93,466,633 tonnes
2013 205,000 tonnes 93,116,007 tonnes
2012 203,500 tonnes 91,395,933 tonnes
2011 202,000 tonnes 94,143,395 tonnes
2010 200,000 tonnes 89,688,933 tonnes
2009 199,000 tonnes 91,445,934 tonnes
2008 197,582 tonnes 92,325,811 tonnes
2007 139,535 tonnes 93,503,695 tonnes
2006 144,146 tonnes 93,672,351 tonnes
2005 142,993 tonnes 95,594,652 tonnes
2004 132,440 tonnes 95,878,960 tonnes
2003 95,926 tonnes 91,084,188 tonnes
2002 82,990 tonnes 93,786,009 tonnes
2001 75,210 tonnes 93,409,856 tonnes
2000 74,730 tonnes 96,170,993 tonnes

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +0.9% from 206,900 tonnes in 2023.
  • Since 2014, when it was 206,477 tonnes, the figure has changed by +1.1%.
  • Among the 215 countries with data for 2024, Sierra Leone has the 61st highest value.
  • The figure for the world in 2024 was 94,403,126 tonnes.

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Source and dates

Original producer
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
ER.FSH.CAPT.MT · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
1960 to 2024 for Sierra Leone
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)