Markets · Southern Africa
Lesotho
Maseru · Lesotho loti (LSL) · SADC · SACU
Reference
- Capital
- Maseru
- Currency
- Lesotho loti · LSL
- Central bank
- Central Bank of Lesotho
- Regional membership
- Official languages
- Sesotho, English
- Stock exchange
- Not listed here
- Instant payments
- Not listed here
- Regulatory sandbox
- Not listed here
A blank field means the item is not listed on this page, not that it does not exist.
Figures
- GDP (current US$)
- $2.6 bn · 2025
- GDP growth (annual %)
- 2.0% · 2025
- Population
- 2.4 m · 2025
- Inflation, consumer prices (annual %)
- 4.3% · 2025
- Personal remittances received (current US$)
- $533 m · 2025
- Exchange rate · LSL
- 16.10 LSL per US dollar · 2026-08-29
World Bank, World Development Indicators, via the World Bank API; year as published. Mid-market reference from exchangerate-api.com, refreshed daily; not a dealing rate.
Headlines · 2
From the AllAfrica country feed and pan-African newsrooms; each item links to the original.
AllAfrica · Lesotho
Lesotho Seek Return to Former Heights in Mauritius
[Cosafa] Lesotho's Under-20 side have excelled in the past, qualifying for the African Youth Championship in 2011 and reaching the final of the COSAFA Under-20 competition in 2017.
AllAfrica · Lesotho
Lesotho, SA Courts Freeze Assets in M700m Clothing Industry Fraud Case
[GroundUp] Appeals have delayed the implementation of two forfeiture judgments handed down in May…