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Least Developed Country Category: Lesotho Profile

* Data from the 2024 triennial review

Lesotho Snapshot in PDF

LDC status

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Inclusion: 1971

Reports and resolutions

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Inclusion

CDP report:
GA resolution:

Gross national income (GNI) per capita*

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Value:

$ 1,184

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Thresholds

Inclusion: $ 1,088
Graduation: $ 1,306

Human assets index (HAI)*

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Index:

60.7

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Thresholds

Inclusion: 60 or below
Graduation: 66 or above

HAI indicators

Under-five mortality rate
Lower secondary education completion rate
stat Value: 72.2 stat Value: 38.1
Index: 62.3 Index: 31.2
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: UNESCO
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 31.8 stat Value: 82.0
Index: 41.4 Index: 76.0
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UNESCO
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for lower secondary education completion
stat Value: 566 stat Value: 1.8
Index: 53.0 Index: 100.0
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: UNESCO

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

47.8

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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: 6.6 stat Value: 0.0
Index: 9.5 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: 68.6
Index: 99.1 Index: 68.6
Source: CDP Secretariat Source: CDP Secretariat
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 7.9 stat Value: 6.3
Index: 65.4 Index: 26.1
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 12.2 stat Value: 8.19
Index: 24.3 Index: 89.4
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: UNDRR

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