Lesotho
General information
Capital: Maseru
Currency unit: Loti
Area: 30,360 km²
Total population: 2,337,420
GDP (millions of US dollars): 2,272
GDP per capita, PPP (current international US dollars): 3,001
Production
Agriculture (% of GDP): 7.7 %
Manufacture (% of GDP): 14.0 %
Industry excluding manufacture (% of GDP): 18.6 %
Services (% of GDP): 59.7 %
Trade
Total exports (millions of US dollars): 980
Total imports (millions of US dollars): 2,083
Main exported goods (% of total exports):
Pearls, precious & semi-precious stones (37.8 %)
Men's clothing of textile fabrics, not knitted (6.8 %)
Wool and other animal hair (incl. wool tops) (6.5 %)
Women's clothing, of textile, knitted or crocheted (6.4 %)
Women's clothing, of textile fabrics (6.3 %)
Price competitiveness
This section brings together various indicators related to the price dimension of countries’ competitiveness. These indicators include both measures of external price competitiveness (the price ratio between domestic and foreign goods in international markets) and internal price competitiveness (the price ratio between tradable and non-tradable domestic goods). All these indices are calculated for each country relative to a base year and constructed such that an increase in the index corresponds to a decline in the country’s price competitiveness.
| Lesotho | ||
|---|---|---|
| Price competitiveness | - | |
| Nominal Effective Exchange Rate Lesotho: 88 | 88 | |
| Real Effective Exchange Rate Lesotho: 103 | 103 | |
| Internal Real Exchange Rate Lesotho: 336 | 336 |