NavGeneral InfoEmail Print Original or alternative title 2015 PHC Provider Statistics Sierra LeoneTabulations only Geography Sierra Leone (SLE) Coverage type Country Time period covered 12/2015 - 12/2015 Data type Census: De factoHouseholdIndividualNationally representativeSubnationally representativeUrban-rural representative Summary The 2015 Sierra Leone Population and Housing Census was conducted by Statistics Sierra Leone in December, 2015. It was the fifth modern census conducted since independence in 1963, and also included questions on the impact of the Ebola virus in households. The total population at the time of the census was 7,092,113, a 42.5% increase since 2004. Keywords Agriculture, Alcohol use, Assets, Congenital anomalies, Cooking fuels, Crops, Disability, Ebola, Education, Employment, Epilepsy, Fertility, Fishing, Health care access, Hearing loss, Household air pollution, Household deaths, Housing conditions, Housing materials, Immunization, Infant mortality, Insecticide-treated bednets, Intentional injuries, Internet, Languages, Lighting, Literacy, Live births, Livestock, Manufacturing, Marital status, Mass media, Maternal mortality, Mental and behavioral disorders, Mining, Mortality, Occupational injuries, Parental survival, Polio, Population, Pregnancy, Refrigeration, Religion, Rheumatoid arthritis, Sanitation, School enrollment, Summary birth history, Telephones, Tobacco smoking, Transportation, Unemployment, Unintentional injuries, Vision loss, Waste disposal, Water supply Citation Contributors Statistics Sierra Leone United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Funders United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Department for International Development (DFiD) (United Kingdom) Irish Aid United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Suggested citation Statistics Sierra Leone, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Sierra Leone Population and Housing Census 2015. GHDx Entry last modified on: Sep 6, 2023