World population/Lesotho
Africa
Population of Lesotho
2,389,341
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#147
world rank
0.03%
of world population
+1.09%
yearly change
+26,031
people this year
55,312
births a year
24,272
deaths a year
How the figure for Lesotho is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Lesotho at 2,389,341 on 1 July 2026, and projects 2,415,372 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.00 people added every second.
That places Lesotho at number 147 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.03 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 58 entries in Africa.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 55,312 births and 24,272 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in Africa
Ranked by population.