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🇸🇿 Eswatini
Kingdom of Eswatini
SWZ SZ L Swazi lilangeni (SZL)
Every statistic we track for Eswatini — 133 indicators, each with its latest value and world rank. Open the interactive profile →
$14,245
58.0 yrs
3.91
0.10
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📈 Economy
| Account Ownership | 65.1% | #81/139 | 2024 |
| Bank Account Ownership | 65.1% | #80/139 | 2024 |
| Bank Branches | 6 | #117/153 | 2024 |
| Current Account Balance | -1.8% | #97/190 | 2026 |
| Debit Card Ownership | 31.7% | #91/140 | 2024 |
| Digital Payments Usage | 61.2% | #33/97 | 2024 |
| Economic Freedom of the World | 5.4 | #141/163 | 2022 |
| Economy Seen as Good (Afrobarometer) | 6.1% | #38/39 | 2023 |
| Exchange Rate (per US$) | 18.3 | #85/197 | 2024 |
| Extreme Poverty | 0% | #104/237 | 2023 |
| Fiscal Balance | -6.9% | #167/189 | 2026 |
| GDP (current US$) | 5.8 | #158/190 | 2026 |
| GDP (PPP) | 16.7 | #153/191 | 2026 |
| GDP per Capita | 4,927 | #127/190 | 2026 |
| GDP per Capita (Long Run) | 8,522 | #100/165 | 2022 |
| GDP per Capita (PPP) | 14,245 | #119/191 | 2026 |
| GDP per Capita Growth | 0.8% | #172/184 | 2019 |
| Government Debt | 50% | #100/185 | 2026 |
| Income per Person | 4,703 | #123/183 | 2018 |
| Inflation (CPI) | 3.5% | #94/191 | 2026 |
| Mobile Money Account | 50.4% | #18/80 | 2024 |
| Real GDP Growth | 4% | #53/191 | 2026 |
| Share of World GDP (PPP) | 0% | #160/191 | 2026 |
| Total GDP (Long Run) | 9,594,910,875 | #151/165 | 2022 |
👥 Demographics
| Fertility Rate (WB) | 2.7 | #64/217 | 2024 |
| Gender Inequality Index | 0.5 | #49/172 | 2023 |
| Median Age | 22.7 | #179/235 | 2026 |
| Population | 1.2 | #156/229 | 2013 |
| Population | 1.2 | #151/191 | 2026 |
| Population Density | 73.1 | #146/235 | 2026 |
| Refugees by Country of Origin | 220 | #136/195 | 2025 |
| Urban Population | 26.2% | #198/213 | 2024 |
🌐 Connectivity
| Access to Electricity | 89.3% | #161/214 | 2024 |
| Get News from the Internet (Afrobarometer) | 60.7% | #8/39 | 2023 |
| Internet Users | 63.4% | #132/182 | 2024 |
| Mobile Subscriptions | 121.5 | #76/209 | 2022 |
| Read News Online | 35.8% | #46/75 | 2024 |
🫀 Health
🎓 Education
| Education Spending (QoG) | 5% | #31/112 | 2023 |
| Mean Years of Schooling | 6.5 | #120/146 | 2020 |
🌱 Environment
| CO₂ per Capita (WB) | 0.9 | #144/203 | 2024 |
| Energy Use per Person | 1,007 | #91/149 | 2023 |
| Environmental Performance Index | 38.7 | #134/179 | 2024 |
| Renewable Electricity | 96.7% | #13/195 | 2024 |
🏛️ Governance
📰 Media & news
| Press Freedom Index | 51.9 | #98/177 | 2026 |
🛡️ Safety
| Felt Unsafe in the Neighbourhood (Afrobarometer) | 65.8% | #5/39 | 2023 |
| Global Peace Index | 2.1 | #63/160 | 2025 |
| Homicide Rate | 40.3 | #6/204 | 2023 |
| Road Traffic Deaths | 24.7 | #19/195 | 2021 |
| Trust in the Police (Afrobarometer) | 23.4% | #37/39 | 2023 |
⚠️ Risk & resilience
| Climate Seen as a Threat | 93.8% | #18/142 | 2023 |
| Confident Can Protect Family | 38.6% | #95/142 | 2023 |
| Disaster Exposure (WRI) | 0.1 | #169/193 | 2026 |
| Experienced a Disaster | 47.2% | #19/142 | 2023 |
| Experienced Discrimination (Skin Colour) | 9% | #51/139 | 2023 |
| INFORM Risk Index | 4.3 | #78/191 | 2025 |
| Resilience to Risk (WRP) | 49.6 | #91/141 | 2023 |
| World Risk Index | 1.9 | #161/193 | 2026 |
| Worry About Violent Crime | 81.9% | #28/142 | 2023 |
😊 Wellbeing
| Happiness (Cantril Ladder) | 3.9 | #137/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Freedom | 0.6 | #137/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: GDP | 1.4 | #100/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Generosity | 0.1 | #124/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Healthy Life Expectancy | 0 | #142/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Low Corruption | 0.1 | #59/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Social Support | 1 | #107/147 | 2025 |
| Human Development Index | 0.7 | #127/193 | 2023 |
| Went Without a Cash Income (Afrobarometer) | 77.8% | #29/39 | 2023 |
| Went Without Enough Food (Afrobarometer) | 64.5% | #17/39 | 2023 |
🧭 Attitudes & values
| Attended a Demonstration | 6.6% | #116/151 | 2017 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Effective | 77.7% | #102/143 | 2018 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Safe | 75.6% | #80/143 | 2018 |
| China’s Influence Seen as Positive (Afrobarometer) | 86.1% | #2/39 | 2023 |
| Country Going in the Right Direction (Afrobarometer) | 14.3% | #33/39 | 2023 |
| Trust in Fellow Citizens (Afrobarometer) | 39.1% | #33/39 | 2023 |
| Trust in parliament | 5.3 | #41/151 | 2017 |
| Trust in Science | 68.5% | #97/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in Scientists | 58.6% | #97/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in the legal system | 6.1 | #24/153 | 2017 |
| US Influence Seen as Positive (Afrobarometer) | 76% | #7/39 | 2023 |
Latest available period per indicator. The rank counts down from the highest value, whatever that means for the series: on child mortality or extreme poverty the country at #1 is the worst in the world, not the best. Sources are credited on each indicator page.