Travel & technology
Electric power
- Plug shape
- Voltage
- 120V, 60Hz
Phone dialing
- Code to call Liberia
- +231
What every visitor should know about Liberia:
- Money
- The currency is the Liberian dollar (LRD). 10 LRD is worth about US$0.14, or €0.10.
- Crime
- CrimeSafe Travel Score™: 2.5 out of 5 (Use caution)
Areas of concern:
- Mugging
- Armed robbery is rare but occurs
- Capital
- Monrovia
- Tap water
- Unsafe. Water purification efforts are inadequate to guarantee safe supply. Drink boiled or bottled water whenever possible.
Liberia facts and figures:
People
- Population
- 3,441,790
- Language
- English 20% (official), some 20 ethnic group languages, of which a few can be written and are used in correspondence
- Ethnicity
- Indigenous African 95% (including Kpelle, Bassa, Gio, Kru, Grebo, Mano, Krahn, Gola, Gbandi, Loma, Kissi, Vai, Dei, Bella, Mandingo, and Mende), Americo-Liberians 2.5% (descendants of immigrants from the US who had been slaves), Congo People 2.5% (descendants of immigrants from the Caribbean who had been slaves)
Economy
- GDP
- US$500 (per capita)