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Eswatini vs Lesotho: Birth rate

Eswatini
24.07 births per 1,000 people
in 2023
Lesotho
24.11 births per 1,000 people
in 2023
Eswatini rank
59th
Lesotho rank
58th

Birth rate over time

  • Eswatini
  • Lesotho
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How they compare

Lesotho currently reports 24.11 births per 1,000 people against 24.07 births per 1,000 people in Eswatini, a difference of 0.036 births per 1,000 people.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Eswatini ahead.

Eswatini ranks 59th and Lesotho ranks 58th of 236 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Birth rate
Unit
births per 1,000 people
Source
UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
236 places, 17,464 data points, 1950–2023
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The number of live births in a year per 1,000 people in the population.