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🇱🇸 Lesotho
Kingdom of Lesotho
LSO LS L Lesotho loti (LSL)
Every statistic we track for Lesotho — 122 indicators, each with its latest value and world rank. Open the interactive profile →
$3,301
52.0 yrs
4.38
0.51
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📈 Economy
| Account Ownership | 61.6% | #86/139 | 2024 |
| Bank Account Ownership | 61.6% | #86/139 | 2024 |
| Bank Branches | 3.5 | #136/153 | 2024 |
| Current Account Balance | -3.4% | #119/190 | 2026 |
| Debit Card Ownership | 18.2% | #107/140 | 2024 |
| Digital Payments Usage | 58.4% | #38/97 | 2024 |
| Economic Freedom of the World | 6 | #113/163 | 2022 |
| Economy Seen as Good (Afrobarometer) | 19.3% | #24/39 | 2023 |
| Exchange Rate (per US$) | 18.3 | #82/197 | 2024 |
| Extreme Poverty | 0% | #140/237 | 2023 |
| Fiscal Balance | 4.2% | #6/189 | 2026 |
| GDP (current US$) | 3 | #168/190 | 2026 |
| GDP (PPP) | 7.9 | #164/191 | 2026 |
| GDP per Capita | 1,241 | #174/190 | 2026 |
| GDP per Capita (Long Run) | 2,313 | #140/165 | 2022 |
| GDP per Capita (PPP) | 3,301 | #176/191 | 2026 |
| GDP per Capita Growth | 4.8% | #25/184 | 2019 |
| Government Debt | 49% | #104/185 | 2026 |
| Income per Person | 2,413 | #149/183 | 2018 |
| Inflation (CPI) | 4.2% | #65/191 | 2026 |
| Made a Digital Payment | 33.5% | #79/144 | 2017 |
| Mobile Money Account | 53.5% | #13/80 | 2024 |
| Real GDP Growth | 1.1% | #163/191 | 2026 |
| Share of World GDP (PPP) | 0% | #178/191 | 2026 |
| Total GDP (Long Run) | 4,761,723,180 | #153/165 | 2022 |
👥 Demographics
| Fertility Rate (WB) | 2.7 | #68/217 | 2024 |
| Gender Inequality Index | 0.5 | #29/172 | 2023 |
| Median Age | 22.1 | #181/235 | 2026 |
| Population | 2.2 | #143/229 | 2013 |
| Population | 2.4 | #138/191 | 2026 |
| Population Density | 78.7 | #138/235 | 2026 |
| Refugees by Country of Origin | 27 | #171/195 | 2025 |
| Urban Population | 43.7% | #161/213 | 2024 |
🌐 Connectivity
| Access to Electricity | 60.6% | #186/214 | 2024 |
| Get News from the Internet (Afrobarometer) | 29.5% | #26/39 | 2023 |
| Internet Users | 51.8% | #144/182 | 2024 |
| Mobile Subscriptions | 68.1 | #176/209 | 2022 |
| Read News Online | 33.3% | #49/75 | 2024 |
🫀 Health
🎓 Education
| Education Spending (QoG) | 7.3% | #6/112 | 2023 |
| Mean Years of Schooling | 6.9 | #112/146 | 2020 |
🌱 Environment
| CO₂ per Capita (WB) | 0.4 | #165/203 | 2024 |
| Environmental Performance Index | 36.9 | #146/179 | 2024 |
🏛️ Governance
📰 Media & news
| Press Freedom Index | 54.4 | #86/177 | 2026 |
🛡️ Safety
| Felt Unsafe in the Neighbourhood (Afrobarometer) | 49.5% | #23/39 | 2023 |
| Global Peace Index | 2.3 | #43/160 | 2025 |
| Homicide Rate | 45.6 | #5/204 | 2023 |
| Road Traffic Deaths | 21.6 | #31/195 | 2021 |
| Trust in the Police (Afrobarometer) | 33.7% | #30/39 | 2023 |
⚠️ Risk & resilience
| Disaster Exposure (WRI) | 0.1 | #187/193 | 2026 |
| INFORM Risk Index | 4.2 | #80/191 | 2025 |
| World Risk Index | 1.2 | #176/193 | 2026 |
😊 Wellbeing
| Happiness (Cantril Ladder) | 4.4 | #126/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Freedom | 0.7 | #121/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: GDP | 1 | #135/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Generosity | 0.1 | #119/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Healthy Life Expectancy | 0 | #146/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Low Corruption | 0.1 | #114/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Social Support | 1.1 | #95/147 | 2025 |
| Human Development Index | 0.6 | #167/193 | 2023 |
| Went Without a Cash Income (Afrobarometer) | 85.7% | #20/39 | 2023 |
| Went Without Enough Food (Afrobarometer) | 66.5% | #14/39 | 2023 |
🧭 Attitudes & values
| Attended a Demonstration | 6.7% | #113/151 | 2017 |
| China’s Influence Seen as Positive (Afrobarometer) | 62.4% | #24/39 | 2023 |
| Country Going in the Right Direction (Afrobarometer) | 12.2% | #34/39 | 2023 |
| Trade Union Membership | 11.6% | #57/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in Fellow Citizens (Afrobarometer) | 42.8% | #32/39 | 2023 |
| Trust in parliament | 5.3 | #42/151 | 2017 |
| Trust in the legal system | 6.1 | #27/153 | 2017 |
| US Influence Seen as Positive (Afrobarometer) | 76.8% | #5/39 | 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.