LSO Lesotho development indicators, 2022

Indicator
Lesotho
Lesotho
Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) 61.7
Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (% of GDP) 3.5
Bank capital to assets ratio (%) 12.1
Bank nonperforming loans to total gross loans (%) 4.3
CPIA economic management cluster average (1=low to 6=high) 3.2
CPIA policies for social inclusion/equity cluster average (1=low to 6=high) 3.5
CPIA public sector management and institutions cluster average (1=low to 6=high) 3.0
CPIA structural policies cluster average (1=low to 6=high) 3.5
Charges for the use of intellectual property, payments (BoP, current US$) 2,633,667
Charges for the use of intellectual property, receipts (BoP, current US$) 176,723
Current account balance (BoP, current US$) -149,892,473
Deposit interest rate (%) 1.7
Domestic credit to private sector (% of GDP) 20.0
Foreign direct investment, net inflows (BoP, current US$) -7,818,689
GDP (current US$) 2,553,459,763
GDP growth (annual %) 0.6
GDP per capita (constant 2010 US$) 968
GDP per capita (current US$) 1,107
GDP per capita growth (annual %) -0.5
GDP per capita, PPP (current international $) 2,695
GNI per capita, Atlas method (current US$) 1,260
GNI per capita, PPP (current international $) 3,160
GNI, Atlas method (current US$) 2,900,233,746
GNI, PPP (current international $) 7,296,364,662
Government expenditure on education, total (% of government expenditure) 14.7
IDA resource allocation index (1=low to 6=high) 3.3
Industry (including construction), value added (% of GDP) 24.9
Inflation, GDP deflator (annual %) 18.4
Inflation, consumer prices (annual %) 8.3
Interest rate spread (lending rate minus deposit rate, %) 7.3
Labor force participation rate, female (% of female population ages 15+) (modeled ILO estimate) 57.4
Labor force participation rate, male (% of male population ages 15+) (modeled ILO estimate) 71.6
Labor force, female (% of total labor force) 45.5
Labor force, total 979,357
Lending interest rate (%) 9.0
Merchandise exports (current US$) 1,117,000,000
Merchandise imports (current US$) 1,924,000,000
Merchandise trade (% of GDP) 119
Official exchange rate (LCU per US$, period average) 16.4
PPP conversion factor, GDP (LCU per international $) 6.7
Personal remittances, received (current US$) 575,534,871
Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) 34.0
Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) 61.8
Population ages 65 and above (% of total population) 4.2
Population growth (annual %) 1.1
Population, female (% of total population) 50.7
Population, total 2,305,825
Price level ratio of PPP conversion factor (GDP) to market exchange rate 0.4
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments (%) 26.4
Real interest rate (%) -7.9
Refugee population by country or territory of asylum 251
Refugee population by country or territory of origin 12.0
Risk premium on lending (lending rate minus treasury bill rate, %) 3.8
Rural population 1,615,392
Rural population (% of total population) 70.1
Terrestrial and marine protected areas (% of total territorial area) 0.5
Unemployment, female (% of female labor force) (modeled ILO estimate) 20.4
Unemployment, male (% of male labor force) (modeled ILO estimate) 16.1
Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled ILO estimate) 18.0
Unemployment, youth female (% of female labor force ages 15-24) (modeled ILO estimate) 37.1
Unemployment, youth male (% of male labor force ages 15-24) (modeled ILO estimate) 18.9
Urban population 690,433
Urban population (% of total population) 29.9