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Lesotho AI Report

Date: July 4, 2025

Lesotho is a mid-size country with 0.03% of the world's population. Lesotho is a democratic monarchy country. It has 1 world heritage site.

Lesotho is the 144^th ranked country in population and 135^th ranked in area out of 195 countries in the world.Please keep the country rank in perspective, for the highlights below.

HIV Infections (Per 1000)

Out of 195 countries in the world, Lesotho is the 2^nd highest ranked in HIV Infections (Per 1000) . This may indicate a better healthcare infrastructure in the country or better health awareness among the people compared to other countries.

#Dentists

Doctors (Per 10,000)

Out of 195 countries in the world, Lesotho is the 9^th worst ranked in #Dentists . This may indicate worse healthcare infrastructure investment by the country or may indicate lower population

Lesotho is the 26^th worst ranked in Doctors (Per 10,000) out of all the 195 countries.This may indicate worse healthcare infrastructure investment by the country or may indicate lower population.

Out of 195 countries in the world, Lesotho is the 28^th worst ranked in Total No. of Doctors . This may indicate worse healthcare infrastructure investment by the country or may indicate lower population

The Average GDP Per Capita (USD) of 195 countries in the world is 18,051. Lesotho is the 30^th worst ranked country out of 195 countries. This implies that this country is a developing country.

Culture

Nature

Internet

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Xhosa	# People	12,820	1	1126
2	Zulu	# People	1,744	1	1128
3	Xhosa as a % of total Xhosa speakers	% People	0	1	1129
4	Sotho	# People	33,988	2	1127
5	Zulu as a % of total Zulu speakers	% People	0	2	1126
6	Sotho as a % of total Sotho speakers	% People	0	3	1125

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	HIV Infections (Per 1000)	People Per 1,000	0	2	1128
2	No. of people HIV infected/Total pop.	# People	5,202	27	1125
Below than World Average-
1	Life Expectancy at Birth, both sexes	Age	73	191	1235
2	#Dentists	# People	13,328	187	1234
3	Dentist (per 10,000)	People per 10000	31	166	1231
4	Doctors (Per 10,000)	People Per 10,000	21	152	1235
5	Total No. of Doctors	# People	78,648	168	1230
6	Total No. of Pharmacists	# People	19,528	139	1235
7	Pharmacists (Per 10,000)	People Per 10,000	4	123	1233
8	Total Nursing	# People	163,061	115	1230
9	Nurses(per 10000)	People per 10000	164,032	115	1233
10	Nurses to doctor ratio	Ratio	46	87	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Gender Ratio	Ratio of female per male, Country total female/ Country total male	1	5	1126
2	Female % of Total Pop.	% People	50	38	1126
3	Population Growth Rate (%)	% People	0	86	1126
Below than World Average-
1	Male % of Total Pop.	% People	50	149	1231
2	Total Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	42,003	144	1230
3	Male Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	21,226	144	1232
4	Female Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	20,993	143	1235
5	Births	# People (In Thousands)	681	129	1235
6	Density ( Pop/Land Area Ratio)	Density	312	107	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Exports/Total GDP of the Country %.		53	9	1128
2	Corporate Tax Rates in %	Rate	23	74	1130
Below than World Average-
1	GDP (Billions USD) 2025	$ Billions	597	166	1234
2	FDI (millions USD)	Amount	3,115	172	1233
3	GDP Per Capita (USD)	$	18,051	166	1231
4	Imports/Total Imports of the World %.		0	138	1231
5	Export of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	186,399	146	1231
6	Import of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	183,299	144	1231
7	GDP Per Capita at PPP (USD)	$	30,228	98	1230
8	Imports /Total GDP of the Country %.		46	67	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Rural Pop. /Total Pop. %	% People	40	28	1126
2	Pop. without Electricity Access / Total Pop.%	% People	14	25	1130
Below than World Average-
1	Pop. with access to Electricity (%)	% People	86	171	1234
2	Urban Population / Total Population % .	% People	60	168	1235
3	# Cities>100000	# Cities	23	141	1231
4	# Cities>100000	# Cities	21	132	1231
5	Urban Population (2021)	# People	23,726,053	153	1230
6	# Cities>300000	# Cities	8	94	1232
7	# Cities>300000	# Cities	7	86	1235
8	# Cities>500000	# Cities	5	73	1233
9	Rural Pop.	# People	18,013,759	115	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Christian Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	42	58	1127
Below than World Average-
1	World Heritage Sites	Count	7	135	1231
2	Islamic Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	22	167	1230
3	Islamic Population	# People	9,936,734	150	1231
4	Christian Pop./Total Christian Pop.%	% People	0	97	1232
5	Christian Population	# People	11,885,917	98	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Employment in Agri. / Total Labour Force % .	% People	23	61	1129
2	Employment in Agriculture/Total Labour force %.	% People	23	61	1129
3	Employment in Agriculture /Total Pop. %.	% People	9	61	1126
4	Wage & Salaried Workers / Total Labour Force %	% People	58	92	1126
Below than World Average-
1	Employment in Services / Total Labour Force %.	% People	56	150	1232
2	Employment in services/Total Labour force %.	% People	56	152	1235
3	Employment in Services	# People	10,251,634	150	1233
4	Employment in Services /Total pop.%.	% People	25	146	1231
5	Non-Agricultural Labour Force	# People	15,067,127	144	1235
6	Total Labour Force (2021)	# People	20,409,734	142	1234
7	Formal Jobs	# People	10,605,934	139	1230
8	Total Labour Force/Total Pop.	% People	43	133	1232
9	Non-Agri Labour force/Total Labour force %.	% People	76	117	1235
10	Employment in Agriculture	# People	5,314,003	108	1234

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	# Phone Numbers /Total Pop. %	Percent	101	94	1127
Below than World Average-
1	# Mobile phone numbers	Count	40,393,496	141	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	FB Users / Total Int. Users %.	% People	31	171	1233
2	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total LinkedIn Users	% People	0	142	1230
3	FB Users / Total Pop. %.	% People	25	162	1235
4	Facebook users	# People	6,757,917	161	1230
5	Twitter users	# People	3,173,740	154	1231
6	LinkedIn users	# People	6,388,891	151	1231
7	Internet Users	# People	28,408,774	149	1231
8	Int. Users / Total Pop.%	% People	70	147	1230
9	Twitter Users as a % of Total Internet Users	% People	14	144	1232
10	Twitter Users as a % of Total Population	% People	13	143	1233
11	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Population	% People	31	140	1234
12	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Internet Users	% People	35	136	1234
13	Facebook CPC in Rs.	Absolute	5	109	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Chicken Meat Production (in tonnes)	Weight	588,164	170	1230
2	Forest Area.	Area	21,142,892	165	1235
3	Cow Beef Production (in tonnes)	Weight	320,761	155	1230
4	Number of Cows	Count	8,697,624	129	1233
5	Cows (% of Total Cows)	Percent	0	129	1230
6	Goat Meat Production (in tonnes)	Weight	46,111	124	1233
7	Number of Trees	Count	15,642,617,148	118	1231
8	Cow Milk Production (in tonnes)	Weight	3,855,383	115	1234
9	Cow Milk Production (% of Total Cow Milk Production)	Percent	0	106	1232
10	Wheat prod.	Tons	6,698,590	102	1232
11	Potatoes Produced /Total Potatoes Produced %	Weight	0	96	1232
12	Potatoes prod.	Tons	2,538,925	98	1234
13	Barley prod.	Tons	1,576,534	97	1230
14	Tree density.	Density	22,685	93	1232
15	Tree density .	Density	828	76	1233
16	Coal Production (in 1000 metric tons)	Weight	121,850	61	1235
17	Diamond prod.	Tons	10	9	1231
18	Diamond Produced/Total Diamond Produced %	Weight	10	9	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Total Military Force	# People	358,465	159	1232
2	Military Force/Total Pop. %	% People	1	157	1233
3	Military Budget (in Billion $)	$ Billion	15	140	1233
4	Police Officers	# People	138,224	98	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	23	152	1232
2	Teachers in secondary edu.	# People	659,923	150	1232
3	Literacy Rate (%)	% People	86	149	1232
4	Total Literate Pop.	# People	34,678,001	145	1235
5	Enrolment in secondary edu.	# People	9,727,510	144	1230
6	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Literate Pop.	% People	28	135	1230
7	Enrolment in tertiary edu.(all programmes)	# People	4,618,191	131	1235
8	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu/Total Literate Pop. %.	% People	9	130	1233
9	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu./ Total Pop. %.	% People	9	129	1230
10	Enrolment in primary edu.	# People	9,629,078	127	1234
11	# Total Students (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	38,831,325	126	1231
12	Teachers in tertiary edu.	# People	297,976	121	1235
13	Teachers in primary edu.	# People	357,113	120	1232
14	# Total Teachers (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	2,895,876	113	1230
15	Teachers as a % of Enrolment	% People	41	104	1232
16	# Students per teacher in Primary edu.	Ratio	260	71	1230
17	Enrolment in Primary Edu./ Total Literate Pop %.	% People	36	45	1234
18	Enrolment in Primary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	27	42	1231
19	# Students per teacher in secondary edu.	Ratio	57	37	1235
20	# Students per teacher in tertiary edu.	Ratio	58	37	1234

LANGUAGES

Official Language:
1. Sotho : 1,981,000
2. Xhosa : 1,100,000

Mother Tongue : Sotho

Literacy Rate (%) : 79.4

Details

Country Capital	:	Maseru
GDP Per capita	:	1,098
GDP Per Capita Rank	:	166^th/195
Life Expectancy	:	58
Unemployment Rate	:	0
Number of Internet Users	:	1,093,420
Internet Users Rank	:	149^th/195
Area	:	30,360
Area Rank	:	135^th/195
Total Population	:	2,363
Total Population Rank	:	144^th/195

Continent: Africa

Cities with > 100K popln: 1

Sr.	City	Total City Population (2023)
1	Maseru	530,321