Lesotho — GDP
GDP (Nominal) for Lesotho, 1960–2025.
Latest value · 2025
2.57 billion
GDP (Nominal) · current US$ · +7342.4% since 1960
GDP for Lesotho was 2.57 billion in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 66 years, from 1960 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 2.58 billion in 2011. The lowest was 34.58 million in 1960 (about 74.4× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 6.86% per year.
Lesotho ranks 186 of 212 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 88%. The median for Sub-Saharan Africa is 19.93 billion, so Lesotho sits below it. It peaked in 2011 and has fallen 0% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved up 9%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
2.57 billion
First (1960)
34.58 million
Change
+7342.4%
Highest
2.58 billion
in 2011
Lowest
34.58 million
in 1960
Average
1.00 billion
Annual growth (CAGR)
6.86%
Years of data
66
Recent years
| Year | current US$ |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,573,572,920.05 |
| 2024 | 2,391,282,547.8 |
| 2023 | 2,129,871,529.53 |
| 2022 | 2,354,980,960.03 |
| 2021 | 2,412,130,056.56 |
| 2020 | 2,053,699,864 |
| 2019 | 2,390,702,295.83 |
| 2018 | 2,556,247,292 |
| 2017 | 2,306,741,672.29 |
| 2016 | 2,114,426,452.2 |
| 2015 | 2,359,686,724.54 |
| 2014 | 2,441,063,054.06 |
Reading this correctly. Gross domestic product at current market prices, converted to US dollars at official exchange rates. This is the number usually meant by 'GDP'. Figures are in current US$. Comparing this series with a different measure of the same concept (for example a nominal figure against a purchasing-power-parity figure) will give misleading results.
Related data
Source. World Bank Open Data, indicator
NY.GDP.MKTP.CD — GDP (Nominal). Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as published; this page computes the summary statistics (change, CAGR, extremes) from the underlying annual series. View the original dataset on data.worldbank.org.