Liberia

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This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 12:27 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 5 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.

This page is being built. Everything below is a block that is in place and empty. Each one says which kind of empty it is, because those are different facts: nobody has looked yet is not the same claim as we looked and there was nothing, and this page will never let one stand in for the other.

Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.

Locator map of Liberia. Liberia is filled; surrounding countries are drawn in a dimmer tone and nothing is hidden behind them. No contested area from this source overlaps it. View spans 11.8°W to 7.0°W and 4.0°N to 8.9°N. Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m.

Liberia is filled. The 3 other countries reaching this view are drawn in a dimmer tone — dimmed, not hidden. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.

Nothing is hatched because no disputed area in this source overlaps Liberia. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.

Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 6.5°N — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 11.8°W–7.0°W, 4.0°N–8.9°N.

Disputed areas

none listedNo disputed area in this source overlaps Liberia. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.

  1. News sources

    1 source from Liberiain Aletheia’s registry. Coverage here is thin.

    • The New Dawn

    sources not yet assessed

  2. Official alerts

    no source connectedNo official alerting source is connected for this country yet. Its own authorities may well publish warnings — Aletheia simply does not carry them.

  3. National legislature

    Senate of Liberia ↗

    Wikidata P856 · link checked and reachable

  4. Local time

    One time zone.

    The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.

  5. Conditions at the capital

    We couldn't reach the weather service just now, so no conditions are shown. This is not a report that conditions are calm.

    Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)

    Monrovia, 2026-09-20Sunrise 6:32 AM · sunset 6:40 PM12h 08m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit

  6. At a glance

    ISO code
    LBRuncited
    Driving side
    rightcited
    Mains voltage
    120 V / 220 Vcited
    Capital
    Monroviauncited
    Official language
    Englishuncited
    Plug types
    Type A (NEMA 1-15), Type B (NEMA 5-15), Type C (Europlug), Type E, Type F (Schuko)cited · letters are the IEC classification
    Official website
    No source assessed yet

  7. Population and economy

    Population

    Population of Liberia: the UN's 2025 estimate is 5,731,206 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 14 more an hour. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.

    Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.

    Where this number comes from
    Base figure
    5,731,206 people
    For the year
    2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
    Compared with
    5,612,817 people in 2024
    Rate applied
    about 14 more an hour (118,468 a year)
    How that rate was found
    The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
    Carried forward
    0 days beyond the base figure's date
    Source
    UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
    The source's own definition
    The values shown are midyear estimates.

    THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.

    Population
    5,731,2062025
    GDP
    5,245,938,9002025
    GDP per capita
    9152025
    Life expectancy at birth
    62.3 years2024
    Exports
    Not publishedThe source publishes no figure for this country. That is missing data, not a zero.
    Imports
    Not publishedThe source publishes no figure for this country. That is missing data, not a zero.

    Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source

  8. In this country's own words

    The Love Of Liberty Brought Us Here
    the state's official mottovia Wikidata (CC0)

    Also recorded in Bulgarian and Welsh.

    Founded
    1822
    National anthem
    All Hail, Liberia, Hail!

    Everything in this section is quoted, with its source. Aletheia does not write about a country's history, culture or religion in its own words — where there is nothing to quote, there is no section.

  9. World Heritage Sites

    Coverage limitedWe hold no World Heritage entry for this country, but our read of the register is not known to be complete, so this is not a finding of none. 6 inscribed sites are in the register and reach no page here — the source records no country for them, so they could belong to any country. That is why an empty result anywhere cannot be read as an absence.

  10. Emergency numbers

    • 114listed as: fire department
    • 911

    Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.

    Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.

  11. Explore this country

  12. Regions

    First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates

  13. Currency

    LRD

News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.

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