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Government department under the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning mandated to set up a system for national official statistics on economic, social, demographic, including human resources, and environmental areas in relation to the development needs of Lesotho; and official statistics for purposes of economic and social planning, research, public information and international cooperation, and for related matter.

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Key Indicators
  De Jure Population

2006 Census

 1,876,633
  Inflation rate July 2010 3.4%
  Unemployment 2008 LFS - Preliminary 22.7%
  literate (tested) 2006 Census 87%
  infant mortality 2006 census 94
  child mortality 2006 Census 23.7
  Maternal mortality 2006 Census 939
  Total Fertility Rate (TFR) 2006 census 3.5
  Life Expectancy at birth (For the total) 2006 Census 41.2
  Life Expectancy at birth (Females) 2006 Census 42.9
  Life Expectancy at birth (Males) 2006 Census 39.7
  GDP growth rate 2009 National Accounts 4.4%
  GNI per capita at constant prices 2009 National Accounts M 6853 
  GDP per capita at constant prices 2009 National Accounts M 4795
  GDP at constant prices 2009 National Accounts M 9013 million
  Food Poverty Line 2002/03 HBS M 84.41
  Poverty Line 2002/03 HBS M 149.91
Crop Forecasting Maize Sorghum Wheat
Yield per hectare forecasts for 2009/10 0.80 0.92 0.74
Area Planted (ha) forecasts for 2009/10 122,828 30,504 14,331
Production (mt) forecasts for 2009/10 98,035 28,082 10,640

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