Country comparison Lesotho : United States

General information

	Lesotho	United States
Region:	Southern Africa	North America
Area:	30,360 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Sotho	English
Government form:	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1966 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Maseru	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Lesotho	United States
Population:	2,142,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	70.6	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 51 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 58 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 24.7 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	26.42 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	13.93 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	-4.59 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Lesotho	United States
Political stability:	38	67
Civil rights:	41	81
Health:	12	73
Climate:	92	62
Cost of Living:	66	16
Popularity:	37	72

Economy

	Lesotho	United States
Currency:	Lesotho Loti (1 LSL = 100 Lisente)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	24.7 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	4.98 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living:	38.55 %	110.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	13.60 %	36.60 %
Average income:	1,100 US$	64,550 US$
Corruption index:	41 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	LSO: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,875 M US$	0.88 M US$	20,893,746 M US$	63.41 M US$
Gross national product:	2,355 M US$	1.10 M US$	21,266,806 M US$	64.55 M US$
Exported goods:	900 M US$	0.42 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.48 M US$
Imported goods:	1,995 M US$	0.93 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	LSO: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	5,940 km	2.77 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Airports:	24	0.011	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	LSO: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	847.30 m kWh	395,518.36 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	510.00 m kWh	238,067.23 kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	373.00 m kWh	174,115.84 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	2.57 m t	1,199.67 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	Lesotho	United States
International dialing:	+266	+1
Internet domain:	.ls	.us

	LSO total	LSO per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	11,574	5	103,052,000	313
Mobile cellulars:	1,562,648	729	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	11,030	5	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	906,210	423	294,658,590	894
Broadband Internet:	5,060	2	120,531,000	366

Healthcare system

	Lesotho	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	1.30	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.07	2.59
Diabetes:	4.5 %	10.8 %
HIV:	8.77 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	6.5 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	78.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	29.7 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Lesotho and United States

	Lesotho	United States
Daytime temperatures:	22.5 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.7 °C	7.2 °C
Rel. humidity:	56 %	67 %
Rain days:	5.8	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	8.8	7.2

Native languages

	Lesotho	United States
Sotho:	85.0 %	n/a
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Zulu:	15.0 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
French:	n/a	0.7 %
German:	n/a	0.6 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Korean:	n/a	0.3 %
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	0.0 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Lesotho	United States
Christianity:	80.0 %	78.5 %
Native religions:	20.0 %	n/a
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Islam:	n/a	1.1 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	0.0 %	15.3 %