Lesotho Analytics

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.

LANGUAGES

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

Mother Tongue : Sotho

Literacy Rate (%) : 79

Details

Country Capital	:	Maseru
GDP Per capita	:	3,355
GDP Per Capita Rank	:	166^th/195
Life Expectancy	:	57
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

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Lesotho Highlights

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.

Better than World Average-

1. Lesotho is the 4^th highest ranked in HIV Infections (Per 1000) out of 195 countries in the world. This implies a poorer healthcare infrastructure in the country or lesser health awareness among people compared to other countries.

Worse than World Average-

1. Lesotho is the 9^th worst ranked in #Dentists out of 195 countries in the world. This may indicate worse healthcare infrastructure investment by the country or may indicate lower population
2. The average Doctors (Per 10,000) of the countries in the world is 20. Lesotho is the 26^th worst-ranked country out of 195 countries. This may indicate worse healthcare infrastructure investment by the country or may indicate lower population.
3. Out of the 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

Lesotho Metrics

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	1125
3	Xhosa as a % of total Xhosa speakers	% People	0	1	1127
4	Sotho	# People	33,988	2	1125
5	Zulu as a % of total Zulu speakers	% People	0	2	1125
6	Sotho as a % of total Sotho speakers	% People	0	3	1127

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	HIV Infections (Per 1000)	People Per 1,000	0	4	1125
2	No. of people HIV infected/Total pop.	# People	5,202	27	1129
Below than World Average-
1	Life Expectancy at Birth, both sexes	Age	73	191	1234
2	#Dentists	# People	13,328	187	1232
3	Dentist (per 10,000)	People per 10000	31	166	1231
4	Doctors (Per 10,000)	People Per 10,000	20	170	1231
5	Total No. of Doctors	# People	78,648	168	1234
6	Total No. of Pharmacists	# People	19,528	139	1235
7	Pharmacists (Per 10,000)	People Per 10,000	4	123	1231
8	Total Nursing	# People	163,061	115	1233
9	Nurses(per 10000)	People per 10000	164,032	115	1231
10	Nurses to doctor ratio	Ratio	46	87	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Imports /Total GDP of the Country %.		53	9	1130
2	Corporate Tax Rates in %	Rate	23	74	1129
Below than World Average-
1	GDP (Billions USD)	$ Billions	613	165	1235
2	FDI (millions USD)	Amount	3,115	172	1232
3	GDP Per Capita (USD)	$	30,070	166	1235
4	Imports/Total Imports of the World %.		0	138	1233
5	Export of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	186,399	146	1232
6	Import of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	183,299	144	1234
7	Exports/Total GDP of the Country %.		46	67	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Rural Pop. /Total Pop. %	% People	40	26	1127
2	Pop. without Electricity Access / Total Pop.%	% People	14	25	1126
Below than World Average-
1	Pop. with access to Electricity (%)	% People	86	171	1234
2	Urban Population / Total Population % .	% People	60	168	1233
3	# Cities>100000	# Cities	23	141	1231
4	# Cities>100000	# Cities	21	132	1232
5	Urban Population	# People	23,726,053	153	1230
6	# Cities>300000	# Cities	8	94	1235
7	# Cities>300000	# Cities	7	86	1235
8	# Cities>500000	# Cities	5	73	1231
9	Rural Pop.	# People	18,013,759	115	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Female % of Total Pop.	% People	50	42	1126
2	Gender Ratio	Ratio of female per male, Country total female/ Country total male	1	42	1126
3	Population Growth Rate (%)	% People	0	86	1127
Below than World Average-
1	Male % of Total Pop.	% People	50	154	1231
2	Total Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	42,003	144	1233
3	Male Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	21,226	144	1230
4	Female Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	20,993	143	1235
5	Births	# People (In Thousands)	681	129	1233
6	Density ( Pop/Land Area Ratio)	Density	312	107	1234

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	Islamic Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	22	167	1234
2	Christian Pop./Total Christian Pop.%	% People	0	97	1234

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Employment in Agri. / Total Labour Force % .	% People	23	61	1127
2	Employment in Agriculture/Total Labour force %.	% People	23	61	1126
3	Employment in Agriculture /Total Pop. %.	% People	9	61	1125
4	Wage & Salaried Workers / Total Labour Force %	% People	58	93	1128
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	1230
3	Employment in Services /Total pop.%.	% People	25	146	1233
4	Employment in Services	# People	10,251,634	150	1231
5	Non-Agricultural Labour Force	# People	15,067,127	144	1230
6	Total Labour Force (2023)	# People	20,409,734	142	1231
7	Formal Jobs	# People	10,605,934	139	1231
8	Total Labour Force/Total Pop.	% People	43	133	1233
9	Teachers in primary edu.	# People	357,113	120	1231
10	Non-Agri Labour force/Total Labour force %.	% People	76	113	1232
11	Employment in Agriculture	# People	5,314,003	108	1230

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	1234

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Diamond Produced/Total Diamond Produced %	Weight	10	9	1232
2	Forest Area.	Area	21,142,892	165	1234
3	Number of Trees	Count	15,642,617,148	118	1231
4	Wheat prod.	Tons	6,698,590	102	1235
5	Potatoes Produced /Total Potatoes Produced %	Weight	0	96	1234
6	Potatoes prod.	Tons	2,538,925	98	1231
7	Barley prod.	Tons	1,576,534	97	1234
8	Tree density.	Density	22,685	93	1230
9	Tree density .	Density	828	76	1234
10	Diamond prod.	Tons	10	9	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	World Heritage Sites	Count	7	135	1234
2	Islamic Population	# People	9,936,734	150	1231
3	Christian Population	# People	11,885,917	98	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	FB Users / Total Int. Users %.	% People	33	165	1234
2	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total LinkedIn Users	% People	0	143	1235
3	FB Users / Total Pop. %.	% People	26	160	1232
4	Facebook users	# People	7,174,483	157	1234
5	LinkedIn users	# People	6,064,509	150	1231
6	Twitter users	# People	3,179,254	151	1233
7	Internet Users	# People	28,408,774	149	1235
8	Int. Users / Total Pop.%	% People	70	147	1231
9	Twitter Users as a % of Total Population	% People	14	143	1230
10	Twitter Users as a % of Total Internet Users	% People	15	143	1230
11	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Population	% People	30	140	1231
12	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Internet Users	% People	33	135	1231
13	Facebook CPC in Rs.	Absolute	5	109	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Total Military Force	# People	358,465	159	1235
2	Military Force/Total Pop. %	% People	1	157	1232
3	Military Budget (in Billion $)	$ Billion	15	140	1233
4	Police Officers	# People	138,224	98	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	23	152	1235
2	Teachers in secondary edu.	# People	659,923	150	1235
3	Literacy Rate (%)	% People	86	149	1234
4	Total Literate Pop.	# People	34,678,001	145	1234
5	Enrolment in secondary edu.	# People	9,727,510	144	1235
6	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Literate Pop.	% People	28	135	1234
7	Enrolment in tertiary edu.(all programmes)	# People	4,618,191	131	1234
8	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu/Total Literate Pop. %.	% People	9	130	1230
9	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu./ Total Pop. %.	% People	9	129	1233
10	Enrolment in primary edu.	# People	9,629,078	127	1231
11	# Total Students (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	38,831,325	126	1232
12	Teachers in tertiary edu.	# People	297,976	121	1235
13	# Total Teachers (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	2,895,876	113	1230
14	Teachers as a % of Enrolment	% People	41	103	1233
15	# Students per teacher in Primary edu.	Ratio	260	71	1231
16	Enrolment in Primary Edu./ Total Literate Pop %.	% People	36	45	1233
17	Enrolment in Primary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	27	42	1235
18	# Students per teacher in secondary edu.	Ratio	57	37	1234
19	# Students per teacher in tertiary edu.	Ratio	58	37	1232

Lesotho Language Details

Sr.	Language	% of people speaking the language in country.
1	Sotho	83.83 %
2	Xhosa	46.55 %
3	Zulu	9.28 %

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