Sierra Leone

Refugees

345

2021

International Migrants

54,746

2020

Population

8,800,000

2023

International Migrants as % of Population

0.67%

2020

Overview

Types of facilities used for migration-related detention
Administrative Ad Hoc Criminal Unknown

28 July 2020 – Sierra Leone

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DETENTION STATISTICS

Total Migration Detainees: Flow + Stock (year)
Not Available
2019

DETAINEE DATA

Total Number of Children Placed in Immigration Detention (Year)
0
2017

DETENTION CAPACITY

ALTERNATIVES TO DETENTION

ADDITIONAL ENFORCEMENT DATA

PRISON DATA

Criminal Prison Population (Year)
3,341
2016
3,281
2013
2,762
2012
2,237
2010
1,899
2007
1,400
2004
Percentage of Foreign Prisoners (Year)
1.3
2015
2.1
2013
Prison Population Rate (per 100,000 of National Population)
51
2016
54
2013
46
2012
39
2010
35
2007
28
2004

POPULATION DATA

Population (Year)
8,800,000
2023
8,000,000
2020
6,453,000
2015
International Migrants (Year)
54,746
2020
54,332
2019
91,200
2015
International Migrants as Percentage of Population (Year)
0.67
2020
1.4
2015
Refugees (Year)
0
2022
345
2021
342
2020
441
2019
592
2018
679
2017
683
2016
760
2015
1,371
2015
1,372
2014
Ratio of Refugees Per 1000 Inhabitants (Year)
0.1
2016
0.22
2014
Asylum Applications (Year)
0
2016
0
2014
Stateless Persons (Year)
0
2016
0
2015

SOCIO-ECONOMIC DATA & POLLS

Gross Domestic Product per Capita (in USD)
766
2014
Remittances to the Country
104
2014
Unemployment Rate
2014
Net Official Development Assistance (ODA) (in Millions USD)
910.6
2014
Human Development Index Ranking (UNDP)
181 (Low)
2015

MIGRATION-RELATED DETENTION

GOVERNANCE SYSTEM

Legal Tradition(s)
Customary law
2017
Common law
2017

LEGAL & REGULATORY FRAMEWORK

GROUNDS FOR MIGRATION-RELATED DETENTION

LENGTH OF MIGRATION-RELATED DETENTION

MIGRATION-RELATED DETENTION INSTITUTIONS

PROCEDURAL STANDARDS & SAFEGUARDS

DETENTION MONITORS

> National human rights monitoring bodies

> National Preventive Mechanisms (Optional Protocol to UN Convetion against Torture)

> Non-governmental organisations (NGOs)

> Governmental monitoring bodies

> International detention monitoring

TRANSPARENCY

READMISSION/RETURN/EXTRADITION AGREEMENTS

COVID-19

HEALTH CARE

COVID-19 DATA

INTERNATIONAL TREATIES

International Treaties Ratified
Ratification Year
Observation Date
CRPD, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
2010
2017
CTOCSP, Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
2014
2017
CTOCTP, Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children
2014
2017
CRSSP, Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons
2016
2017
CRSR, Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
1981
2017
CRC, Convention on the Rights of the Child
1990
2017
CAT, Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
2001
2017
CEDAW, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
1988
2017
ICESCR, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
1996
2017
ICERD, International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
1967
2017
VCCR, Vienna Convention on Consular Relations
2016
2017
ICCPR, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
1996
2017
Ratio of relevant international treaties ratified
Ratio: 12/19
Individual Complaints Procedures
Acceptance Year
ICCPR, First Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966 1996
1996
Ratio of Complaints Procedures Accepted
Observation Date
1/7
2017
Relevant Recommendations Issued by Treaty Bodies
Recommendation Year
Observation Date
Committee on the Rights of the Child § 42. "The Committee recommends that the State party, in order to further strengthen the fulfilment of children’s rights, consider ratifying the core human rights instruments to which it is not yet a party, namely the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities." 2016
2016

NON-TREATY-BASED INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS MECHANISMS

Relevant Recommendations from the UN Universal Periodic Review
Observation Date
No 2016
2017
No 2011
2017

REGIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS MECHANISMS

Regional Legal Instruments
Year of Ratification (Treaty) / Transposed (Directive) / Adoption (Regulation)
Observation Date
ACRWC, African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child 2002
2002
2017
ACHPR, African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights 1983
1983
2017

DETENTION COSTS

OUTSOURCING

FOREIGN SOURCES OF FUNDING FOR DETENTION OPERATIONS