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Lesotho Trade at a Glance : Most Recent Values

Latest trade data available from various sources.

Please note: The data from various sources are not from the same year.

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Lesotho exports, imports, trade and tariff indicators 2023

Please note the exports, imports and tariff data are based on reported data and not gap filled. Please check the Data Availability for coverage.

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Lesotho Trade

Overall Exports and Imports for Lesotho 2024

The total value of exports (FOB) is US$ 1,005 million.
The total value of imports (CIF) is US$ 1,879 million.
The total trade was US$ 2,883 million.
The trade balance was US$ -874 million.

China Monthly Exports and imports, in Dec 2024

The total value of exports (FOB) is US$ 58,915 K.
The total value of imports (CIF) is US$ 157,471 K.
The total trade was US$ 216,386 K.
The trade balance was US$ -98,555 K.

Lesotho Trade Indicators 2023

Hirschman Herfindahl Market concentration index is 0.21.
Index of export market penetration is 0.21.
World Growth in percentage is 0.21 and Lesotho Country Growth is -1.26.

Lesotho Service Trade data from WDI 2023

Lesotho, Service imports (BoP, current US$) is 413,783,496.90.
Lesotho, Service exports (BoP, current US$) is 17,160,767.21.
Lesotho, Imports of goods and services as percentage of GDP is 98.59 %.
Lesotho, Exports of goods and services as percentage of GDP is 42.92 %.

Tariff and Trade Barriers

Tariffs 2023

Tariffs imposed by Lesotho in 2023 are below.

The maximum rate of tariff in percentage on any product is 154.63.
The simple average tariff across all products is 6.80.
The trade weighted average tariff is 4.52.
The total duty free imports in thousands of US dollars are 866,902.82 and duty free tariff line items share is 57.90.

Lesotho Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) 2024

FDI Inward stock (in US$ Mil) was US$ 809 million.
FDI Inward stock flow (in US$ Mil) was US$ -42 million.
FDI Outward stock (in US$ Mil) was US$ not available.
FDI Outward stock flow (in US$ Mil) was US$ not available.

Non-Tariff Measures (NTM)

No Of NTM Measures is not available.
No Of NTM Affected Products (HS 6 Digit) is not available.

Lesotho World Development Indicators (WDI) 2023

Key Development Indicators of Lesotho in 2023 are below

The population of Lesotho is 2,108,132.
GDP in US$ is 2,118 million .
GNI per capita, Atlas method in current US dollars is 1,250.00.
Trade balance in US$ is -1,179.00 million.
Trade in services as percentage of GDP is -55.67 %.

WDI

Lesotho Global Value Chain (GVC) 2015

GVC related output as percentage of output was 4 %.
GVC related trade as percentage of trade was 55 %.

GVC

Lesotho Services Service Policy Restrictive Database (SPRD)

Services Trade Restrictions Index (Over All) for Lesotho is 27.30.

SPRD