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Botswana vs Lesotho: Birth rate

Botswana
24.71 births per 1,000 people
in 2023
Lesotho
24.11 births per 1,000 people
in 2023
Botswana rank
56th
Lesotho rank
58th

Birth rate over time

  • Botswana
  • Lesotho
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How they compare

Botswana currently reports 24.71 births per 1,000 people against 24.11 births per 1,000 people in Lesotho, a difference of 0.604 births per 1,000 people.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Botswana ahead.

Botswana ranks 56th and Lesotho ranks 58th of 236 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Birth rate
Unit
births per 1,000 people
Source
Human Mortality Database (2025); UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
236 places, 18,723 data points, 1751–2023
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The total number of births per 1,000 people in a given year.