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Lesotho

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  • Population.........................................................................2,227,548 (2024 est.)
  • Population growth rate ...........................................................0.76% (2024 est.)
  • Birth rate...................................................22.9 births/1,000 population (2024 est.)
  • Death rate................................................10.8 deaths/1,000 population (2024 est.)
  • Net migration rate...............................-4.5 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2024 est.)
  • Ethnic groups.................................Sotho 99.7%, other 0.3% (includes Kwena, Nguni (Hlubi and Phuthi), Zulu)

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May 2, 2012

Lesotho: From Labor Reserve to Depopulating Periphery?

Jim Cobbe of Florida State University discusses how the close ties between Lesotho (ethnically, almost wholly Basotho) and South Africa (with an even larger Basotho population) are expressed in a history of economic migration, and how new immigrants from China are changing the face of modern-day Lesotho.

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May 2, 2012
Lesotho: From Labor Reserve to Depopulating Periphery?

Jim Cobbe of Florida State University discusses how the close ties between Lesotho (ethnically, almost wholly Basotho) and South Africa (with an even larger Basotho population) are expressed in a history of economic migration, and how new immigrants from China are changing the face of modern-day Lesotho.