If you are interested, the link below to a UNICEF report provides some very current information on Lesotho and the challenges facing the country. This site gives the population of Lesotho as 1.8 million. I am finding population numbers for the country vary significantly from site to site. The CIA fact book site has the population at 2.1 million. Nonetheless, I found this UNICEF site provides an excellent overview of many of the challenges faced by the politicians and citizens of Lesotho.
One sad fact is that nearly 20% of the children born in the country do not survive to their 5th birthday. About 9% do not survive childbirth and another 11% die before reaching their 5th birthday.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EGUA-74DLTP?OpenDocument
~ Benno ~
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