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 %)
Revealed Competitiveness
This section brings together measures of countries’ revealed competitiveness in international markets, that is, their ability to export to those markets. These measures of export competitiveness are therefore the result of the price and non-price competitiveness factors presented in the sections “National Attractiveness and Sustainability” and “Price Competitiveness.” They are defined on a scale ranging from 0 to 10,000, with a higher value indicating greater export competitiveness in international markets.
| Lesotho | ||
|---|---|---|
| Revealed Competitiveness | - | |
| Global Market Share Lesotho: 0 | 0 | |
| Revealed Competitiveness Index Lesotho: 7 | 7 |