Least Developed Country Category: Lesotho Profile

* Data from the 2021 triennial review

Lesotho Snapshot in PDF

LDC status

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Inclusion: 1971

Reports and resolutions

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Inclusion

CDP report: 1971
GA resolution: A/RES/2768(XXVI)

Gross national income (GNI) per capita*

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Value:

$ 1,295

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Thresholds

Inclusion: $ 1,018
Graduation: $ 1,222
Income-only graduation: $ 2,444

Human assets index (HAI)*

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Index:

62.6

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Thresholds

Inclusion: 60 or below
Graduation: 66 or above

HAI indicators

Under-five mortality rate
Gross secondary school enrolment ratio
stat Value: 86.4 stat Value: 62.0
Index: 53.7 Index: 57.8
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: UNESCO
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 32.4 stat Value: 76.6
Index: 40.1 Index: 68.8
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UNESCO
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for gross secondary school enrolment
stat Value: 544 stat Value: 1.35
Index: 54.9 Index: 100.0
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: UNESCO

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

43.4

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Thresholds

Inclusion: 36 or above
Graduation: 32 or below

EVI indicators

Share of agriculture, forestry and fishing in GDP
Share of population in low elevated coastal zones
stat Value: 5.3 stat Value: 0.0
Index: 7.4 Index: 0.0
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: CIESIN
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
stat Value: 89.2 stat Value: 72.1
Index: 98.9 Index: 72.1
Source: CDP Source: CDP
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 0.31 stat Value: 5.9
Index: 25.0 Index: 23.7
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 11.9 stat Value: 7.65
Index: 23.7 Index: 96.5
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: EM-DAT