Lesotho World Economy Ranking: 61 stats

Economic indicators provided by The World Bank. Freedom indexes by The Heritage and Cato Institute. Human development data from the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime.

Gross Domestic Product & Income

Stat	Lesotho	Rank
GDP	$2.7B	169
GDP growth, 1 year	1.5%	156
GDP growth, 5-years average	1.7%	143
Population	2.2M	143
GDP per capita	$1.3k	165
GDP per capita growth	0.33%	155
Purchasing Power Parity conversion factor	5.35	97
Price level ratio of PPP conversion factor GDP to market exchange rate	0.4	122
GDP per capita, PPP adjusted	$3.4k	163
GNI, Atlas method	$2.9B	163
GNI per capita	$1.4k	159
GNI, PPP adjusted	$7.8B	155
GNI per capita, PPP adjusted	$3.7k	153

Financial system and Human development

Stat	Lesotho	Rank
Income Tax Rate	35%	111
Corporate Tax Rate	25%	79
Inflation, consumer prices	5.2%	152
Inflation, GDP deflator	4.4%	126
Unemployment	23.6%	192
Economic Freedom Index	54.5	149
Personal Freedom Index	6.12	143
Human Freedom Index	6.16	143
Property Rights Index	45.2	130
Judical Effectiveness Index	47	75
Business Freedom Index	52.8	142
Fiscal Health Index	60.3	126
Labor Freedom Index	58.8	97
Investment Freedom Index	55	113
Financial Freedom Index	40	122
Trade Freedom Index	82.2	51
Monetary Freedom Index	75.7	108
Government Spending Index	34.4	161
Tax Burden Index	73	122
Government Integrity Index	29.6	134
Corruption Perceptions Index	41	100
Life expectancy at birth, years	52.9	196
Suicide mortality rate, per 100,000 people	21.2	187
Mortality caused by road traffic injury, per 100,000 people	28.9	176
Intentional homicides, per 100,000 people	41.3	193
International tourism, number of arrivals	1.2M	109

Government debt & reserves

Stat	Lesotho	Rank
Central government debt, % of GDP	39%	129
External debt stocks, % of GNI	29.2%	93
External debt stocks	$914.8M	102
Short-term debt, % of total reserves	0.1%	107
Total debt service, % of exports and primary income	3.6%	104
Adjusted net savings including particulate emission damage, % of GNI	8.2%	78
Gross savings, % of GDP	18.1%	111
Gross capital formation, % of GDP	22%	107
Total reserves including gold	$728.5M	137
Foreign direct investment net inflows	$39.6M	157

Exports, imports and economic structure

Stat	Lesotho	Rank
Exports of goods and services, % of GDP	43.8%	65
Imports of goods and services, % of GDP	84.2%	16
Current account balance (balance of payments)	-$4M	56
Revenue excluding grants, % of GDP	33.8%	31
Grants excluding technical cooperation, BoP	$133M	89
Personal remittances received	$629.4M	93
Industry including construction value added, % of GDP	35.5%	33
Agriculture, forestry and fishing value added, % of GDP	6%	103
Charges for the use of intellectual property, payments BoP	$3.3M	125
Charges for the use of intellectual property, receipts BoP	$219k	123
Expense, % of GDP	35.2%	31
Government Expenditure, % of GDP	46.8%	18