Unemployment Summary & Analysis

Sierra Leone offers many various types of employment. With natural resources like diamonds, rutile, bauxite, gold there is a great need for miners. Mining has a very harsh job environment but requires less skill than a teacher or machine operator within the industrial industry. For years diamonds have been the major exports in Sierra Leone and have proved to be the base for their economy.

Men make up most of the work force in the mining business due strong build for lifting but Sierra Leone has seen an increase in women working in the rivers mining for gold. Other industries include: small-scale manufacturing for beverages, textiles, cigarettes and footwear; petroleum refining, and small commercial ship repair (CIA The World Factbook).
Given the harsh environments of the factories, men primarily rule the majority of this work force because there is a tendency not to hire women due to the high birth rate so they would be gone for a long time and hurt the business while men, who have a higher literacy rate, can help manage equipment and fix if needed as well.

Based on what we know about Sierra Leone and their damaged infrastructure and sluggish economy, we can conclude that they are dealing with a high natural rate of employment because Sierra Leone is just undeveloped, who have no significant economic progress, rather than being a developed country that just deals with economic fluctuations (CIA The World Factbook).
There are no policies to help give the hard workings people of Sierra Leone the wage they deserve. This has caused a dramatic inequality of income distribution among the people (CIA The World Factbook).

Sierra Leones unemployment rate is 40% and spread across each of the 3 sectors of their economy: agriculture, industry and services. It is untold which industry is contributing the most to the unemployment rate but we can infer that since the services industry is the least developed that is would ultimately cause to greatest unemployment due to its lack of stable infrastructure.
Thanks to the vast amount of uncultivated land and natural resources Sierra Leone offers a great deal of growth in the agriculture and industry sectors of their economy. Currently, there are no laws in place to help protect the miners in the agricultural cultivation of natural resources.

Works Cited
CIA-The World Factbook. Africa: Sierra Leone. Central Intelligence Agency, 17
Feb. 2009. Web. 30 Nov. 2009. the-world-factbook/geos/sl.html>