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"Introduction": {
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"Background": {
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"text": "Basutoland was renamed the Kingdom of Lesotho upon independence from the UK in 1966. The Basuto National Party ruled the country during its first two decades. King MOSHOESHOE was exiled in 1990, but returned to Lesotho in 1992 and was reinstated in 1995 and subsequently succeeded by his son, King LETSIE III, in 1996. Constitutional government was restored in 1993 after seven years of military rule. In 1998, violent protests and a military mutiny following a contentious election prompted a brief but bloody intervention by South African and Batswana military forces under the aegis of the Southern African Development Community. Subsequent constitutional reforms restored relative political stability. Peaceful parliamentary elections were held in 2002, but the National Assembly elections of February 2007 were hotly contested and aggrieved parties disputed how the electoral law was applied to award proportional seats in the Assembly. In May 2012, competitive elections involving 18 parties saw Prime Minister Motsoahae Thomas THABANE form a coalition government - the first in the country's history - that ousted the 14-year incumbent, Pakalitha MOSISILI, who peacefully transferred power the following month."
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"text": "Basutoland was renamed the Kingdom of Lesotho upon independence from the UK in 1966. The Basuto National Party ruled the country during its first two decades. King MOSHOESHOE was exiled in 1990, but returned to Lesotho in 1992 and was reinstated in 1995 and subsequently succeeded by his son, King LETSIE III, in 1996. Constitutional government was restored in 1993 after seven years of military rule. In 1998, violent protests and a military mutiny following a contentious election prompted a brief but bloody intervention by South African and Batswana military forces under the aegis of the Southern African Development Community. Subsequent constitutional reforms restored relative political stability. Peaceful parliamentary elections were held in 2002, but the National Assembly elections of February 2007 were hotly contested and aggrieved parties disputed how the electoral law was applied to award proportional seats in the Assembly. In May 2012, competitive elections involving 18 parties saw Prime Minister Motsoahae Thomas THABANE form a coalition government - the first in the country's history - that ousted the 14-year incumbent, Pakalitha MOSISILI, who peacefully transferred power the following month. MOSISILI returned to power in snap elections in February 2015 after the collapse of THABANE’s coalition government and an alleged attempted military coup."
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}
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},
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"Geography": {
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"Terrain": {
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"text": "mostly highland with plateaus, hills, and mountains"
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},
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"Elevation extremes": {
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"lowest point": {
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"text": "junction of the Orange and Makhaleng Rivers 1,400 m"
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"Elevation": {
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"mean elevation": {
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"text": "2,161 m"
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},
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"highest point": {
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"text": "Thabana Ntlenyana 3,482 m"
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"elevation extremes": {
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"text": "lowest point: junction of the Orange and Makhaleng Rivers 1,400 m ++ highest point: Thabana Ntlenyana 3,482 m"
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}
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},
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"Natural resources": {
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}
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},
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"Irrigated land": {
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"text": "26.37 sq km (2003)"
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},
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"Total renewable water resources": {
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"text": "3.02 cu km (2011)"
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},
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"Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural)": {
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"total": {
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"text": "0.04 cu km/yr (46%/46%/9%)"
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},
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"per capita": {
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"text": "21.79 cu m/yr (2000)"
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}
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"text": "30 sq km (2012)"
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},
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"Natural hazards": {
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"text": "periodic droughts"
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}
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},
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"People and Society": {
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"Population": {
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"text": "1,953,070",
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"note": {
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"text": "estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, higher death rates, lower population growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2016 est.)"
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}
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},
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"Nationality": {
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"noun": {
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"text": "Mosotho (singular), Basotho (plural)"
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}
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},
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"Ethnic groups": {
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"text": "Sotho 99.7%, Europeans, Asians, and other 0.3%,"
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"text": "Sotho 99.7%, Europeans, Asians, and other 0.3%"
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},
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"Languages": {
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"text": "Sesotho (official) (southern Sotho), English (official), Zulu, Xhosa"
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"Religions": {
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"text": "Christian 80%, indigenous beliefs 20%"
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},
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"Population": {
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"text": "1,947,701",
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"note": {
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"text": "estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, higher death rates, lower population growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2015 est.)"
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}
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"Demographic profile": {
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"text": "Lesotho faces great socioeconomic challenges. More than half of its population lives below the property line, and the country’s HIV/AIDS prevalence rate is the second highest in the world. In addition, Lesotho is a small, mountainous, landlocked country with little arable land, leaving its population vulnerable to food shortages and reliant on remittances. Lesotho’s persistently high infant, child, and maternal mortality rates have been increasing during the last decade, according to the last two Demographic and Health Surveys. Despite these significant shortcomings, Lesotho has made good progress in education; it is on-track to achieve universal primary education and has one of the highest adult literacy rates in Africa. Lesotho’s migration history is linked to its unique geography; it is surrounded by South Africa with which it shares linguistic and cultural traits. Lesotho at one time had more of its workforce employed outside its borders than any other country. Today remittances equal about 17% of its GDP. With few job options at home, a high rate of poverty, and higher wages available across the border, labor migration to South Africa replaced agriculture as the prevailing Basotho source of income decades ago. The majority of Basotho migrants were single men contracted to work as gold miners in South Africa. However, migration trends changed in the 1990s, and fewer men found mining jobs in South Africa because of declining gold prices, stricter immigration policies, and a preference for South African workers. Although men still dominate cross-border labor migration, more women are working in South Africa, mostly as domestics, because they are widows or their husbands are unemployed. Internal rural-urban flows have also become more frequent, with more women migrating within the country to take up jobs in the garment industry or moving to care for loved ones with HIV/AIDS. Lesotho’s small population of immigrants is increasingly composed of Taiwanese and Chinese migrants who are involved in the textile industry and small retail businesses."
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},
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"Age structure": {
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"0-14 years": {
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"text": "32.67% (male 319,592/female 316,672)"
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"text": "32.4% (male 317,933/female 314,849)"
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},
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"15-24 years": {
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"text": "19.73% (male 182,697/female 201,510)"
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"text": "19.56% (male 181,907/female 200,113)"
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},
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"25-54 years": {
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"text": "37.2% (male 354,193/female 370,287)"
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"text": "37.58% (male 358,643/female 375,313)"
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},
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"55-64 years": {
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"text": "4.98% (male 51,693/female 45,234)"
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"text": "5% (male 52,016/female 45,549)"
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},
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"65 years and over": {
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"text": "5.43% (male 53,706/female 52,117) (2015 est.)"
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},
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"population pyramid": {
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"text": null
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"text": "5.47% (male 54,466/female 52,281) (2016 est.)"
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}
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},
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"Dependency ratios": {
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},
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"Median age": {
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"total": {
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"text": "23.8 years"
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"text": "24 years"
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},
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"male": {
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"text": "23.8 years"
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"text": "24 years"
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},
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"female": {
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"text": "23.8 years (2015 est.)"
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"text": "24 years (2016 est.)"
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}
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},
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"Population growth rate": {
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"text": "0.32% (2015 est.)"
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"text": "0.3% (2016 est.)"
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},
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"Birth rate": {
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"text": "25.47 births/1,000 population (2015 est.)"
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"text": "25.1 births/1,000 population (2016 est.)"
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},
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"Death rate": {
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"text": "14.89 deaths/1,000 population (2015 est.)"
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"text": "14.9 deaths/1,000 population (2016 est.)"
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},
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"Net migration rate": {
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"text": "-7.36 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2015 est.)"
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"text": "-7.1 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2016 est.)"
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},
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"Urbanization": {
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"urban population": {
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"text": "1.03 male(s)/female"
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},
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"total population": {
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"text": "0.98 male(s)/female (2015 est.)"
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"text": "0.98 male(s)/female (2016 est.)"
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}
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},
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"Mother's mean age at first birth": {
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"text": "21",
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"note": {
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"text": "median age at first birth among women 25-29 (2014 est.)"
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}
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},
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"Maternal mortality rate": {
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},
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"Infant mortality rate": {
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"total": {
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"text": "49.03 deaths/1,000 live births"
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"text": "47.6 deaths/1,000 live births"
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},
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"male": {
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"text": "52.82 deaths/1,000 live births"
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"text": "51.2 deaths/1,000 live births"
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},
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"female": {
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"text": "45.13 deaths/1,000 live births (2015 est.)"
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"text": "43.8 deaths/1,000 live births (2016 est.)"
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}
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},
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"Life expectancy at birth": {
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"total population": {
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"text": "52.86 years"
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"text": "53 years"
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},
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"male": {
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"text": "52.76 years"
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"text": "52.9 years"
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},
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"female": {
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"text": "52.97 years (2015 est.)"
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"text": "53.1 years (2016 est.)"
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}
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},
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"Total fertility rate": {
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"text": "2.72 children born/woman (2015 est.)"
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"text": "2.68 children born/woman (2016 est.)"
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},
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"Contraceptive prevalence rate": {
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"text": "47% (2009/10)"
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},
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"Health expenditures": {
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"text": "11.5% of GDP (2013)"
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"text": "10.6% of GDP (2014)"
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},
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"Hospital bed density": {
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"text": "1.3 beds/1,000 population (2006)"
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"HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate": {
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"text": "23.39% (2014 est.)"
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"text": "22.73% (2015 est.)"
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},
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"HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS": {
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"text": "314,600 (2014 est.)"
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"text": "308,100 (2015 est.)"
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},
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"HIV/AIDS - deaths": {
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"text": "9,300 (2014 est.)"
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"text": "9,900 (2015 est.)"
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"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
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"text": "11.9% (2014)"
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"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
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"text": "13.5% (2010)"
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"text": "10.3% (2014)"
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"Education expenditures": {
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"male": {
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"Child labor - children ages 5-14": {
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"total number": {
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"percentage": {
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"text": "Basutoland"
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"etymology": {
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"text": "the name translates as \"Land of the Sesotho speakers\""
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"text": "Independence Day, 4 October (1966)"
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"Constitution": {
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"text": "previous 1959, 1967; latest adopted 2 April 1993 (effectively restoring the 1967 version); amended several times, last in 2004 (2015)"
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"text": "previous 1959, 1967; latest adopted 2 April 1993 (effectively restoring the 1967 version); amended several times, last in 2011 (2016)"
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"Legal system": {
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"International law organization participation": {
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"Citizenship": {
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"citizenship by birth": {
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"text": "yes"
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"citizenship by descent": {
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"dual citizenship recognized": {
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"text": "no"
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"residency requirement for naturalization": {
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"text": "5 years"
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"Suffrage": {
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"text": "18 years of age; universal"
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"text": "Court of Appeal president and High Court chief justice appointed by the monarch on the advice of the prime minister; puisne judges appointed by the monarch on advice of the Judicial Service Commission, an independent body of judicial officers and officials designated by the monarch; judges of both courts can serve until age 75"
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"subordinate courts": {
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"text": "Magistrate Courts; customary or traditional courts; Courts Martial"
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"text": "Magistrate Courts; customary or traditional courts; military courts"
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"text": "254 Kingsway Road, Maseru West (Consular Section)"
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"mailing address": {
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"text": "P. O. Box 333, Maseru 100, Lesotho"
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"text": "P.O. Box 333, Maseru 100, Lesotho"
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"telephone": {
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"text": "[266] 22 312666"
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"FAX": {
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"text": "[266] 22 310116"
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"Economy - overview": {
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"text": "Small, mountainous, and completely landlocked by South Africa, Lesotho depends on a narrow economic base of textile manufacturing, agriculture, remittances, and regional customs revenue. About three-fourths of the people live in rural areas and engage in animal herding and subsistence agriculture, although Lesotho produces less than 20% of the nation's demand for food. Rain-fed agriculture is vulnerable to weather and climate variability. Lesotho relies on South Africa for much of its economic activity; Lesotho imports 90% of the goods it consumes from South Africa, including most agricultural inputs. Households depend heavily on remittances from family members working in South Africa, in mines, on farms and as domestic workers, though mining employment has declined substantially since the 1990s. Lesotho is a member of the Southern Africa Customs Union (SACU), and revenues from SACU accounted for roughly 44% of total government revenue in 2014. The South African Government also pays royalties for water transferred to South Africa from a dam and reservoir system in Lesotho. However, the government continues to strengthen its tax system to reduce dependency on customs duties and other transfers. Access to credit remains a problem for the private sector. The government maintains a large presence in the economy - government consumption accounted for 37% of GDP in 2014 and the government remains Lesotho's largest employer. Lesotho's largest private employer is the textile and garment industry - approximately 36,000 Basotho, mainly women, work in factories producing garments for export to South Africa and the US. Diamond mining in Lesotho has grown in recent years and may contribute 8.5% to GDP by 2015, according to current forecasts."
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"text": "Small, mountainous, and completely landlocked by South Africa, Lesotho depends on a narrow economic base of textile manufacturing, agriculture, remittances, and regional customs revenue. About three-fourths of the people live in rural areas and engage in animal herding and subsistence agriculture, although Lesotho produces less than 20% of the nation's demand for food. Agriculture is vulnerable to weather and climate variability. ++ ++ Lesotho relies on South Africa for much of its economic activity; Lesotho imports 90% of the goods it consumes from South Africa, including most agricultural inputs. Households depend heavily on remittances from family members working in South Africa, in mines, on farms, and as domestic workers, though mining employment has declined substantially since the 1990s. Lesotho is a member of the Southern Africa Customs Union (SACU), and revenues from SACU accounted for roughly 44% of total government revenue in 2014. The South African Government also pays royalties for water transferred to South Africa from a dam and reservoir system in Lesotho. However, the government continues to strengthen its tax system to reduce dependency on customs duties and other transfers. ++ ++ The government maintains a large presence in the economy - government consumption accounted for 37% of GDP in 2014 and the government remains Lesotho's largest employer. Access to credit remains a problem for the private sector. Lesotho's largest private employer is the textile and garment industry - approximately 36,000 Basotho, mainly women, work in factories producing garments for export to South Africa and the US. Diamond mining in Lesotho has grown in recent years and may contribute 8.5% to GDP by 2015, according to current forecasts."
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"GDP (purchasing power parity)": {
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"text": "$5.575 billion (2014 est.) ++ $5.389 billion (2013 est.) ++ $5.203 billion (2012 est.)",
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"text": "$5.802 billion (2015 est.) ++ $5.643 billion (2014 est.) ++ $5.455 billion (2013 est.)",
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"note": {
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"GDP (official exchange rate)": {
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"text": "$2.22 billion (2014 est.)"
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"text": "$2.043 billion (2015 est.)"
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"GDP - real growth rate": {
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"text": "3.4% (2014 est.) ++ 3.6% (2013 est.) ++ 5.3% (2012 est.)"
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"text": "2.8% (2015 est.) ++ 3.4% (2014 est.) ++ 3.6% (2013 est.)"
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"GDP - per capita (PPP)": {
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"text": "$2,900 (2014 est.) ++ $2,800 (2013 est.) ++ $2,700 (2012 est.)",
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"text": "$3,000 (2015 est.) ++ $2,900 (2014 est.) ++ $2,800 (2013 est.)",
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"note": {
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"text": "data are in 2014 US dollars"
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"Gross national saving": {
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"text": "24.8% of GDP (2014 est.) ++ 24.4% of GDP (2013 est.) ++ 26.5% of GDP (2012 est.)"
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"text": "24.1% of GDP (2015 est.) ++ 23.4% of GDP (2014 est.) ++ 24.7% of GDP (2013 est.)"
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"GDP - composition, by end use": {
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"household consumption": {
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"text": "92.9%"
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"text": "75.6%"
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"government consumption": {
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"text": "34.4%"
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"text": "28.5%"
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"investment in fixed capital": {
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"text": "38.2%"
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"text": "30.8%"
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},
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"investment in inventories": {
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"text": "-5%"
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"text": "-2%"
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},
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"exports of goods and services": {
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"text": "40.6%"
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"text": "39%"
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},
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"imports of goods and services": {
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"text": "-101.1% ++ (2014 est.)"
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"text": "-71.9% (2015 est.)"
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}
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},
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"GDP - composition, by sector of origin": {
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"agriculture": {
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"text": "5.4%"
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"text": "7.7%"
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},
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"industry": {
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"text": "28.6%"
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"text": "31.6%"
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},
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"services": {
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"text": "66% (2014 est.)"
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"text": "60.7% (2015 est.)"
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}
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},
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"Agriculture - products": {
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"text": "food, beverages, textiles, apparel assembly, handicrafts, construction, tourism"
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},
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"Industrial production growth rate": {
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"text": "-2% (2014 est.)"
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"text": "0.8% (2015 est.)"
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},
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"Labor force": {
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"text": "886,000 (2014 est.)"
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"text": "905,600 (2015 est.)"
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},
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"Labor force - by occupation": {
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"agriculture": {
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"text": "28.1% (2014 est.) ++ 25% (2008 est.)"
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},
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"Population below poverty line": {
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"text": "49% (1999 est.)"
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"text": "57.1% (2010 est.)"
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},
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"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
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"lowest 10%": {
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},
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"Budget": {
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"revenues": {
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"text": "$1.328 billion"
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"text": "$1.097 billion"
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},
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"expenditures": {
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"text": "$1.291 billion (2014 est.)"
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"text": "$1.168 billion (2015 est.)"
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}
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},
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"Taxes and other revenues": {
|
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"text": "59.8% of GDP (2014 est.)"
|
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"text": "54% of GDP (2015 est.)"
|
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},
|
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"Budget surplus (+) or deficit (-)": {
|
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"text": "1.7% of GDP (2014 est.)"
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"text": "-3.5% of GDP (2015 est.)"
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},
|
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"Public debt": {
|
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"text": "NA"
|
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"text": "53.4% of GDP (2015 est.) ++ 47.8% of GDP (2014)"
|
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},
|
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"Fiscal year": {
|
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"text": "1 April - 31 March"
|
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},
|
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"Inflation rate (consumer prices)": {
|
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"text": "3.8% (2014 est.) ++ 5% (2013 est.)"
|
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"text": "5.3% (2015 est.) ++ 4% (2014 est.)"
|
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},
|
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"Central bank discount rate": {
|
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"text": "9.36% (31 December 2012) ++ 10% (31 December 2010)"
|
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"text": "6.75% (2 February 2016) ++ 6.25% (31 December 2015)"
|
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},
|
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"Commercial bank prime lending rate": {
|
||||
"text": "10.34% (31 December 2014 est.) ++ 9.92% (31 December 2013 est.)"
|
||||
"text": "10.59% (31 December 2015 est.) ++ 10.34% (31 December 2014 est.)"
|
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},
|
||||
"Stock of narrow money": {
|
||||
"text": "$353.7 million (31 December 2014 est.) ++ $380.2 million (31 December 2013 est.)"
|
||||
"text": "$340.6 million (31 December 2015 est.) ++ $353.7 million (31 December 2014 est.)"
|
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},
|
||||
"Stock of broad money": {
|
||||
"text": "$942.6 million (31 December 2014 est.) ++ $825.7 million (31 December 2013 est.)"
|
||||
"text": "$535.4 million (31 December 2015 est.) ++ $569.1 million (31 December 2014 est.)"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Stock of domestic credit": {
|
||||
"text": "$14.77 million (31 December 2014 est.) ++ $37.18 million (31 December 2013 est.)"
|
||||
"text": "$47.8 million (31 December 2015 est.) ++ $14.77 million (31 December 2014 est.)"
|
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},
|
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"Current account balance": {
|
||||
"text": "-$176 million (2014 est.) ++ -$235 million (2013 est.)"
|
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"text": "-$178 million (2015 est.) ++ -$176 million (2014 est.)"
|
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},
|
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"Exports": {
|
||||
"text": "$815 million (2014 est.) ++ $847.1 million (2013 est.)"
|
||||
"text": "$844.1 million (2015 est.) ++ $826.4 million (2014 est.)"
|
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},
|
||||
"Exports - commodities": {
|
||||
"text": "manufactures (clothing, footwear), wool and mohair, food and live animals, electricity, water, diamonds"
|
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},
|
||||
"Imports": {
|
||||
"text": "$1.837 billion (2014 est.) ++ $1.884 billion (2013 est.)"
|
||||
"text": "$1.737 billion (2015 est.) ++ $1.858 billion (2014 est.)"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Imports - commodities": {
|
||||
"text": "food; building materials, vehicles, machinery, medicines, petroleum products"
|
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},
|
||||
"Reserves of foreign exchange and gold": {
|
||||
"text": "$1.071 billion (31 December 2014 est.) ++ $1.055 billion (31 December 2013 est.)"
|
||||
"text": "$904.2 million (31 December 2015 est.) ++ $1.071 billion (31 December 2014 est.)"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Debt - external": {
|
||||
"text": "$900.4 million (31 December 2014 est.) ++ $885.2 million (31 December 2013 est.)"
|
||||
"text": "$866.7 million (31 December 2015 est.) ++ $876.3 million (31 December 2014 est.)"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Stock of direct foreign investment - at home": {
|
||||
"text": "$370.6 million (31 December 2014 est.) ++ $319 million (31 December 2013 est.)"
|
||||
"text": "$376.2 million (31 December 2015 est.) ++ $262.9 million (31 December 2014 est.)"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Exchange rates": {
|
||||
"text": "maloti (LSL) per US dollar - ++ 10.8469 (2014 est.) ++ 10.85 (2013 est.) ++ 8.2 (2012 est.) ++ 7.26 (2011 est.) ++ 7.32 (2010 est.)"
|
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"text": "maloti (LSL) per US dollar - ++ 12.7589 (2015 est.) ++ 10.85 (2014 est.) ++ 10.85 (2013 est.) ++ 8.2 (2012 est.) ++ 7.26 (2011 est.)"
|
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}
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Energy": {
|
||||
"Electricity access": {
|
||||
"population without electricity": {
|
||||
"text": "1,700,000"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"electrification - total population": {
|
||||
"text": "17%"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"electrification - urban areas": {
|
||||
"text": "43%"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"electrification - rural areas": {
|
||||
"text": "8% (2013)"
|
||||
}
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Electricity - production": {
|
||||
"text": "486 million kWh (2012 est.)"
|
||||
},
|
||||
|
|
@ -716,18 +734,18 @@
|
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"Communications": {
|
||||
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
|
||||
"total subscriptions": {
|
||||
"text": "51,200"
|
||||
"text": "45,364"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
|
||||
"text": "3 (2014 est.)"
|
||||
"text": "2 (July 2015 est.)"
|
||||
}
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
|
||||
"total": {
|
||||
"text": "2.1 million"
|
||||
"text": "2.237 million"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
|
||||
"text": "110 (2014 est.)"
|
||||
"text": "115 (July 2015 est.)"
|
||||
}
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Telephone system": {
|
||||
|
|
@ -735,34 +753,31 @@
|
|||
"text": "rudimentary system consisting of a modest number of landlines, a small microwave radio relay system, and a small radiotelephone communication system; mobile-cellular telephone system is expanding"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"domestic": {
|
||||
"text": "privatized in 2001, Telecom Lesotho was tasked with providing an additional 50,000 fixed-line connections within five years, a target not met; mobile-cellular service dominates the market and is expanding with a subscribership roughly 65 per 100 persons in 2011; rural services are scant"
|
||||
"text": "privatized in 2001, Telecom Lesotho was tasked with providing an additional 50,000 fixed-line connections within five years, a target not met; mobile-cellular service dominates the market and is expanding with a subscribership now over 110 per 100 persons"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"international": {
|
||||
"text": "country code - 266; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2011)"
|
||||
"text": "country code - 266; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2015)"
|
||||
}
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Broadcast media": {
|
||||
"text": "1 state-owned TV station and 2 state-owned radio stations; government controls most private broadcast media; satellite TV subscription service available; transmissions of multiple international broadcasters obtainable (2008)"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Radio broadcast stations": {
|
||||
"text": "AM 1, FM 3, shortwave 1 (2007)"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Television broadcast stations": {
|
||||
"text": "1 (2007)"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Internet country code": {
|
||||
"text": ".ls"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Internet users": {
|
||||
"total": {
|
||||
"text": "102,000"
|
||||
"text": "313,000"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"percent of population": {
|
||||
"text": "5.3% (2014 est.)"
|
||||
"text": "16.1% (July 2015 est.)"
|
||||
}
|
||||
}
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Transportation": {
|
||||
"Civil aircraft registration country code prefix": {
|
||||
"text": "7P (2016)"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Airports": {
|
||||
"text": "24 (2013)"
|
||||
},
|
||||
|
|
@ -788,7 +803,7 @@
|
|||
"text": "5"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"under 914 m": {
|
||||
"text": " ++ 16 (2013)"
|
||||
"text": "16 (2013)"
|
||||
}
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Roadways": {
|
||||
|
|
@ -803,37 +818,13 @@
|
|||
}
|
||||
}
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Military": {
|
||||
"Military and Security": {
|
||||
"Military branches": {
|
||||
"text": "Lesotho Defense Force (LDF): Army (includes Air Wing) (2012)"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Military service age and obligation": {
|
||||
"text": "18-24 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription; women serve as commissioned officers (2012)"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Manpower available for military service": {
|
||||
"males age 16-49": {
|
||||
"text": "472,456"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"females age 16-49": {
|
||||
"text": "508,953 (2010 est.)"
|
||||
}
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Manpower fit for military service": {
|
||||
"males age 16-49": {
|
||||
"text": "270,184"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"females age 16-49": {
|
||||
"text": "275,734 (2010 est.)"
|
||||
}
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually": {
|
||||
"male": {
|
||||
"text": "19,110"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"female": {
|
||||
"text": "20,037 (2010 est.)"
|
||||
}
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Military expenditures": {
|
||||
"text": "1.94% of GDP (2012) ++ 2.3% of GDP (2011) ++ 1.94% of GDP (2010)"
|
||||
},
|
||||
|
|
@ -847,10 +838,10 @@
|
|||
},
|
||||
"Trafficking in persons": {
|
||||
"current situation": {
|
||||
"text": "Lesotho is a source, transit, and destination country for women and children subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking and for men subjected to forced labor; Basotho women and children are subjected to domestic servitude and commercial sexual exploitation within Lesotho and South Africa; some Basotho men who voluntarily migrate to South Africa for work become victims of forced labor in agriculture and mining or are coerced into committing crimes"
|
||||
"text": "Lesotho is a source, transit, and destination country for women and children subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking and for men subjected to forced labor; in Lesotho and South Africa, Basotho women and children are subjected to domestic servitude, and Basotho children increasingly endure commercial sexual exploitation; some Basotho men who voluntarily migrate to South Africa for work become victims of forced labor in agriculture and mining or are coerced into committing crimes; foreign nationals continue to traffic fellow citizens in Lesotho"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"tier rating": {
|
||||
"text": "Tier 2 Watch List – Lesotho does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; however, it is making significant efforts to do so; in 2013, the government initiated several prosecutions for trafficking offenses but did not demonstrate overall increasing efforts to address human trafficking; key portions of the 2011 anti-trafficking act remain unimplemented, including the development of formal referral procedures and the establishment of victim care centers; the government continued to rely on NGOs to identify and assist victims, without providing any funding or support for these services (2014)"
|
||||
"text": "Tier 2 Watch List – Lesotho does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; however, it is making significant efforts to do so; in 2014, Lesotho was granted a waiver from an otherwise required downgrade to Tier 3 because its government has a written plan that, if implemented would constitute making significant efforts to bring itself into compliance with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; the government failed to initiate any prosecutions against alleged traffickers and has not convicted any offenders under the 2011 anti-trafficking act, which remains unimplemented for a fifth year; authorities did not develop formal victim identification and referral procedures, did not establish victim care centers, as required under the 2011 anti-trafficking act, and did not support NGOs offering victims protective services (2015)"
|
||||
}
|
||||
}
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
|
|
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