Lesotho-2015

Year
2015
Population
2118521
Population, Rural
73.09
Population, Female
50.76
Working age population
60.69
Working age population, Male
636602
Working age population, Female
649083
Age dependency ratio
64.78
Labour force participation, Female
59.09
Labour force participation, Male
74.03
Employment in Agriculture
30.78
GDP per capita (constant 2015 US$)
1113.84
Real GDP growth (inflation-adjusted)
3.12
GDP at current market prices
2184.13
Inflation rate
3.22
Growth in broad money supply
3.69
External debt outstanding (% of GDP)
38.19
Fiscal balance (% of GDP)
-1.25
Remittances (% of GDP)
15.71
Gross enrolment ratio
93.41
Gross enrolment ratio, Male
91.33
Gross enrolment ratio, Female
95.5
Access to electricity
31.8
Access to electricity, Urban
64.6
Access to electricity, Rural
19.7
Renewable energy share in the total final energy consumption
44.94
Main telephone lines per 100 inhabitants
1.89
Mobile phone ownership
31.17
ATMs per 100,000 adults
12.95
ATMs
178
Handset affordability
30.23
Mobile connectivity index
38.32
Network coverage
63.14
Mobile Data Affordability
15.54
Mobile Cellular Subscribers per 100 inhabitants
98.41
Fixed -broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitant
0
Volume of mobile money transactions per 1000 adults
12197.21
Value of mobile money transactions (% of GDP)
6.46
Remittance costs as % of remittance amount
13.8
Broad money (current LCU)
10 134 561 486
Consumer price index (2010 = 100)
127
Population ages 15 and above, female
702 615
Population ages 15 and above, male
671 600
Population ages 15 and above, total
1 374 216
Population, female (primary + secondary)
351918
Population, male
1 043 257
Population, male (primary + secondary)
349159
Population, youth (15-24)
446806
Urban population
570 052
Labour force participation
66.19