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If you were born in Lesotho today
About 1 in 2,206 babies born in the world right now is born in Lesotho (0.045%). This is what that life starts with — and you can live one, to the very end.
Life expectancy at birth54.3years · world 69.3
Children who die before five90per 1,000 births · world 48
Income per person$3,564a year, at local prices · world $13,616
Expected years of school10.6years · world 12.0
Life satisfaction3.5out of 10 · world 4.8
Live in cities31%world 52%
Mothers who die giving birth544per 100,000 births · world 239
Girls married before 1815%world 22%
- Out of every 1,000 babies born here, about 90 will not live to see their fifth birthday — 1.9 times the world average.
- A life here lasts 54.3 years on average — 15.0 years shorter than the world's 69.3.
- Income per person is about $3,564 a year at local prices, 0.26 times the world's.
Be born — maybe hereWhere you are born is drawn by real birth odds: today, 0.045% of the time it is Lesotho.
Lives lived here by visitors
No one has left a life from here in the memorial yet.
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Sources: UN World Population Prospects, UN IGME, World Bank, UNDP, World Happiness Report, WHO, UNICEF. Some small territories use regional estimates.