Lesotho
64 figures for Lesotho, each the latest the source has. Pick one to see how Lesotho compares.
Economy
- GDP per person $1,089 (2025)
- GDP per person, price-adjusted $3,184 (2025)
- Economic growth +2.0% (2025)
- Unemployment 16.3% (2025)
- Inflation +6.1% (2024)
- Exports 49.4% (2024)
- Income per person $3,029 (2023)
- Household wealth 45.4 (2018)
- Poorer households 61.9% (2018)
- Wealth inequality 0.29 (2018)
- Women in paid work 33.6% (2014)
People
- Population 2.31 million (2023)
- Population growth +1.10% (2025)
- Births per woman 2.66 (2024)
- Typical age 21.4 (2023)
- Living in cities 44.7% (2025)
- Human Development Index 0.550 (2023)
- Women’s vs men’s development 1.006 (2023)
- People per household 3.7 (2018)
- People over 65 6.6% (2018)
- Children under 15 32.7% (2018)
- Women’s age at first marriage 20.4 (2018)
- Mothers’ age at first birth 20.7 (2018)
Health
- Life expectancy 57.4 (2023)
- Child deaths (under 5) 60.0 (2024)
- Mothers dying in childbirth 478 (2023)
- Health spending per person $123 (2023)
- Measles vaccination 90% (2024)
- Overweight adults 42.3% (2022)
- Stunted children 34.5% (2018)
- Overweight children 8.6% (2018)
- Homes with piped water 36.5% (2018)
- Homes with a flush toilet 3.2% (2018)
Education
- Years of schooling 7.7 (2023)
- Expected years in school 11.0 (2023)
- Secondary school enrollment 59.4% (2017)
- Education spending 7.3% (2018)
- Teens in school 72.4% (2018)
Environment
- CO₂ per person 1.1 (2024)
- Total CO₂ emissions 2.57 million (2024)
- Forest cover 1.1% (2023)
- Air pollution (PM2.5) 24.5 (2024)
- Renewable energy share 33.6% (2021)
- Average temperature 11.7 (2022)
Energy
- Energy use per person 10 (2007)
- Access to electricity 60.6% (2024)
- Renewable electricity 100.0% (2022)
- Nuclear electricity 0.0% (2022)
- Coal electricity 0.0% (2022)
- Cooking with wood or dung 56.0% (2017)
Technology
- Internet users 51.8% (2024)
- Mobile phone subscriptions 68.1 (2022)
- Home broadband 0.4 (2022)
- Homes with internet 41.6% (2019)
- Homes with a mobile phone 90.2% (2018)
Food and farming
- Cereal yield 804 (2023)
- Farmland 77.8% (2023)
- Jobs in farming 30.9% (2025)
Government
- Electoral democracy 0.66 (2025)
- Human rights 0.84 (2025)
- Control of corruption −0.27 (2025)
- Women in parliament 25.0% (2025)
- Military spending 1.6% (2024)
- Clean government 61.9 (2022)