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Key facts
- Currency: Lesotho loti
- Capital city: Maseru
- Region: Southern Africa
- Continent: Africa
- Land area: 30,360 km²
- Population: 2,305,825
- Political Leader: Tom Thabane (Prime Minister)
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Metrics
General information
Business
| Central government debt | 2.97 % of GDP |
| Expense | 42.36 % of GDP |
| GDP | 2,236,500,000.00 current US$ |
| Inflation | 8.27 annual % |
| Self-employed | 38.90 % of total employment |
| Tax revenue | 32.05 % of GDP |
| Unemployment | 16.31 % of total labor force |
| Vulnerable employment | 33.03 % of total employment |
Environment
| Agricultural land | 24,330.00 km² |
| Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) | 2,311.90 kt |
| Fertility rate | 3.02 births per woman |
| Forest area | 345 km² |
| Fossil fuel energy consumption | 0.00 % of total |
| Other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 | 2,061.56 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
| Median age | 18.20 years |
| Methane emissions | 998.83 kt of CO2 equivalent |
| Nitrous oxide emissions | 537.86 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
| Female Population | 1,168,329 |
| Male Population | 1,137,496 |
| Renewable energy consumption | 32.29 % of total final energy consumption |
| Rural land area | 30,172.30 km² |
| Rural population | 1,615,392 |
| Urban land area | 249.94 km² |
| Urban population | 690,433 |
| Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters | 0.00 % of total population |
Health
| Birth rate | 26.11 per 1,000 people |
| Death rate | 14.19 per 1,000 people |
| Health expenditure per capita | 107.10 current US$ |
| Health expenditure | 11.78 % of GDP |
| Incidence of HIV | 4.76 per 1,000 uninfected population |
| Hospital beds | 1.30 per 1,000 people |
| Life expectancy at birth | 53 years |
| Suicide mortality rate | 72.40 per 100,000 population |
Other
| Access to electricity | 50.38 % of population |
| Individuals using the Internet | 47.98 % of population |
| Net migration | -4,000 |
| Press freedom | 2.63 |
Politics
| Armed forces personnel | 2,000 |
| Democracy score | 6.64 |
| Democracy type | Flawed democracy |
| Military expenditure | 1.47 % of GDP |
| Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments | 26.45 % |
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Coordinates: [-29°50′S, 28°50′N]
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SIPRI, World Bank, Reporters Without Borders
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