Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Value Standard Local Currency in Lesotho
Lesotho: Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Value Standard Local Currency was 4,494 million SLC in 2023. ◆ Volatile
Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Value Standard Local Currency in Lesotho, 1970–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in million SLC.
Analysis
The most recent figure for value added (total manufacturing) — value standard local currency in Lesotho is 4,494 million SLC, measured in 2023.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 14.2% on the previous year and up 0.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, value added (total manufacturing) — value standard local currency in Lesotho peaked at 5,533 million SLC in 2018 and was at its lowest, 223.46 million SLC, in 1972.
That places Lesotho 132nd out of 191 countries with data for 2023, putting it in the middle of the range.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 270.93 million SLC | 223.46 million SLC | 379.5 million SLC | 10 |
| 1980s | 697.2 million SLC | 442.96 million SLC | 1,084 million SLC | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,773 million SLC | 1,228 million SLC | 2,280 million SLC | 10 |
| 2000s | 4,529 million SLC | 2,681 million SLC | 5,256 million SLC | 10 |
| 2010s | 4,871 million SLC | 3,953 million SLC | 5,533 million SLC | 10 |
| 2020s | 5,019 million SLC | 4,494 million SLC | 5,357 million SLC | 4 |
Countries ranked near Lesotho
- 129 Cuba 7,081 million SLC compare
- 130 Jordan 5,820 million SLC compare
- 131 Azerbaijan, Republic of 4,609 million SLC compare
- 133 Georgia 4,450 million SLC compare
- 134 Bosnia and Herzegovina 4,194 million SLC compare
- 135 El Salvador 3,681 million SLC compare
More economy & growth data for Lesotho
- Gdp worldbank constant usd, annual growth rate 1.98 % change on previous year (2025)
- Gdp worldbank constant usd, per unit of GDP 0.9379 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Gdp worldbank constant usd, per capita 1,021 units per person (2025)
- Manufacturing value added to gdp, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Manufacturing value added to gdp, per capita 0 units per person (2024)
- External balance on goods and services as a percent of gdp -54.92 (2025)
- Inflation of consumer prices 4.27 (2025)
- Gdp per capita worldbank constant usd 1,021 (2025)
- Manufacturing value added to gdp 12.07 (2024)
- Gdp worldbank constant usd 2.41 billion (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is value added (total manufacturing) — value standard local currency in Lesotho?
- Value added (total manufacturing) — value standard local currency in Lesotho was 4,494 million SLC in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest value added (total manufacturing) — value standard local currency recorded in Lesotho?
- The highest recorded value was 5,533 million SLC in 2018.
- What is the lowest value added (total manufacturing) — value standard local currency recorded in Lesotho?
- The lowest recorded value was 223.46 million SLC in 1972.
- How does Lesotho rank for value added (total manufacturing) — value standard local currency?
- Lesotho ranks 132nd out of 191 countries with data for 2023.
- Is value added (total manufacturing) — value standard local currency rising or falling in Lesotho?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Lesotho data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Value Standard Local Currency, 2015 prices. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
The FAOSTAT Macro Indicators database provides a selection of country-level macro indicators relating to total economy (Gross Domestic Product, Gross Fixed Capital Formation); agriculture activity; agriculture, forestry and fishing activity; total manufacturing activity; manufacturing of food products and beverages activity; manufacturing activity of tobacco products; and manufacturing activity of food, beverage and tobacco products.It releases time series for a selection of National Accounts variables, including gross domestic product, gross fixed capital formation, industry-level value added and gross output. The database also proposes additional indicators such as gross domestic product per capita, year-on-year growth rates and measures of industry contribution to gross domestic product. All data relating to Gross Domestic Product, Gross Fixed Capital Formation, agriculture, forestry and fishing activity, and to total manufacturing activity originates from the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) National Accounts Estimates of Main Aggregates database, which consists of a complete and consistent set of time series of the main National Accounts aggregates of all UN Members States and other territories in the world for which National Accounts information is available. The UNSD database's content is based on the countries' official National Accounts data reported to UNSD through the annual National Accounts Questionnaire, supplemented with data estimates for any years and countries with incomplete or inconsistent information (See http://unstats.un.org/unsd/snaama/Introduction.asp). Data series relating to the sub-industry Agriculture activity are obtained from the UNSD national accounts Official Country Data databases while series on the Manufacturing activity of food and beverages products, manufacturing activity of tobacco products and manufacturing activity of food, beverages and tobacco products originates from the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) INDSTAT2 database. In order to ensure that sub-industry series are consistent in levels with National Accounts based series, which is needed to support comparability across industries (agriculture vs. agro-industry and sub-industries), UNIDO originating series are rescaled on UNSD National Accounts Estimates of Main Aggregates data series (See Section 17.5 for a more detailed description of the data processing steps).