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Lesotho: GDP per capita growth

0.86percent · 2025-55.0% since 2015

Gross domestic product is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period. It can be measured in three different ways: using either the expenditure approach, the income approach, or the production approach. The core indicator has been divided by the general population to achieve a per capita estimate.This indicator denotes the percentage change over each previous year of the constant price (base year 2015) series in United States dollars. Annual figures for Lesotho from 1961 to 2025.

19862025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20250.865
20244.057
20230.579
20221.287
20211.099
2020-9.237
2019-2.569
2018-2.676
2017-4.337
20162.354
20151.923
20140.557
20130.696
20125.271
20113.694
20104.459
2009-1.969
20084.811
20073.75
20064.659
20054.422
20042.411
20035.066
20021.036
20013.72
20003.84
19990.216
19981.034
19972.884
19964.474
19952.035
19944.555
19931.958
19925.192
19915.069
19904.038
19893.674
19886.327
1987-1.473
19862.061
1985-0.257
19842.556
1983-0.917
19821.468
1981-2.194
1980-5.535
1979-0.038
197814.994
197718.339
19767.543
1975-16.451
19747.22
197322.093
1972-3.652
19711.434
1970-1.439
1969-2.077
1968-3.953
19677.015
1966-3.543
1965-0.795
19645.11
19637.379
196211.94
1961-1.132

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World Bank (2026). GDP per capita growth. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-gdp-per-capita-growth (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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