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 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Maseru	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Lesotho	United States
Population:	2,125,000	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	70.0	33.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 51 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 57 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 20.7 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	26.81 ‰	11.60 ‰
Deathrate:	14.25 ‰	8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	-4.59 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Lesotho	United States
Political stability:	35	72
Civil rights:	42	83
Health:	9	74
Climate:	93	64
Cost of Living:	52	38
Popularity:	23	86

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:	5.19 %	1.81 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	13.60 %	36.60 %
Average income:	1,380 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	40 (bad)	69 (moderate)

	LSO: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,376 M US$	1.12 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	2,923 M US$	1.38 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	1,045 M US$	0.49 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	2,203 M US$	1.04 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	LSO: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	5,940 km	2.79 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 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	398,679.13 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	510.00 m kWh	239,969.74 kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.48 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:	373.00 m kWh	175,507.28 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	2.51 m t	1,181.92 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 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:	8,328	4	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	2,380,800	1120	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	11,030	5	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	616,328	290	286,441,830	873

Healthcare system

	Lesotho	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	1.30	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.07	2.59
Diabetes:	4.5 %	10.8 %
HIV:	11.35 %	0.22 %
Tuberculosis:	6.5 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	77.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	29.7 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Lesotho and United States

	Lesotho	United States
Daytime temperatures:	22.5 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.7 °C	7.3 °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 %
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 %