Laos vs Sierra Leone: Population

Laos

7.67 million people

in 2023

Sierra Leone

8.46 million people

in 2023

Laos rank

103rd

Sierra Leone rank

101st

Population over time

Sierra Leone currently reports 8.46 million people against 7.67 million people in Laos, a difference of 795,520 people.

That makes Sierra Leone's figure about 1.1 times Laos's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 241 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Laos ahead.

Laos ranks 103rd and Sierra Leone ranks 101st of 238 countries.

Indicator: Population
Unit: people
Source: HYDE (2023); Gapminder (2022); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 239 places, 51,002 data points, 1000–2023
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Population by country, available from 10,000 BCE to 2023, based on data and estimates from different sources.