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Lesotho

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Lesotho is a country. The capital city is Maseru, located in the Southern Africa region of Africa. It has a land area of 30,360 km², a population of 2,311,472 people and uses the currency Lesotho loti. The Prime Minister is Tom Thabane.

Key facts

currency: Lesotho loti
capital city: Maseru
region: Southern Africa
continent: Africa
land area: 30,360 km²
population: 2,311,472 people
political leader: Tom Thabane (Prime Minister)

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central government debt: 2.99 % of GDP
expense: 40.23 % of GDP
GDP: 2,117,962,450.79 current US$
inflation: 6.34 annual %
self-employed workers: 38.58 % of total employment
tax revenue: 30.44 % of GDP
unemployment: 16.46 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 32.87 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 2,000 people
democracy score: 6.64
democracy type: Flawed democracy
individuals using the Internet: 48.00 % of population
military expenditure: 1.54 % of GDP
net migration: -5,168 people
press freedom: 2.63
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 26.45 %
birth rate: 25.78 per 1,000 people
death rate: 14.07 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 114.71 current US$
health expenditure: 10.21 % of GDP
incidence of HIV: 3.03 per 1,000 uninfected population
hospital beds: 1.30 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 53
suicide mortality rate: 72.40 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 24,330.00 km²
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 0.88 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 50.00 % of population
fertility rate: 2.98 births per woman
forest area: 345 km²
fossil fuel energy consumption: 0.00 % of total
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 2.60 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 17.50
methane emissions: 1.34 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 0.40 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 1,185,745 people
male population: 1,125,727 people
renewable energy consumption: 34.90 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 30,172.34 km²
rural population: 1,608,438 people
urban land area: 249.94 km²
urban population: 703,034 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 0.00 % of total population

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