Healthy diet unaffordable in Lesotho

Name: Healthy diet unaffordable in Lesotho
Creator: FAOSTAT
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In Lesotho, 77.4% of people could not afford a healthy diet in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 2017.

People unable to afford a healthy diet % of the population Data: 2017 to 2025 Source: FAOSTAT

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Lesotho, 2025 77.4%e % of the population

Change from 2024 +0.3percentage points 2024: 77.1%

World, 2025 32.7%e Official aggregate

Position in 2025 12th of 145 See the full ranking

Healthy diet unaffordable in Lesotho over time

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% of the population. Source: FAO, FAOSTAT. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

People unable to afford a healthy diet (% of the population), 2017 to 2025
Period	Lesotho	World
2025	77.4%e (Estimated value)	32.7%e (Estimated value)
2024	77.1%e (Estimated value)	34.3%e (Estimated value)
2023	76.8%e (Estimated value)	35.4%e (Estimated value)
2022	76.5%e (Estimated value)	36.7%e (Estimated value)
2021	76.7%e (Estimated value)	37.4%e (Estimated value)
2020	76.2%e (Estimated value)	39.6%e (Estimated value)
2019	72.5%e (Estimated value)	38.0%e (Estimated value)
2018	71.5%e (Estimated value)	39.0%e (Estimated value)
2017	70.7%e (Estimated value)	41.0%e (Estimated value)

Flags: e Estimated value . A dash means no value was published.

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In short

That is a change of +0.3 percentage points from 77.1% in 2024.
Since 2017, when it was 70.7%, the figure has changed by +6.7 percentage points.
Among the 145 countries with data for 2025, Lesotho has the 12th highest value.
The figure for the world in 2025 was 32.7%.

More for Lesotho

All statistics for Lesotho

Cost of a healthy diet Int$5.47e per person per day 2025 · FAOSTAT Pesticide use 3.44e kg/ha 2024 · FAOSTAT Nitrogen fertiliser use 3.6e kg/ha 2024 · FAOSTAT Agriculture share of GDP 6.5% 2025 · World Bank Cereal yield 604 kg per hectare 2024 · World Bank Agricultural land 92.9% 2024 · World Bank

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Original producer: FAOSTAT
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAOSTAT
Dataset or series code: CAHD · dataset details · view at source
Selection: Item Code=7005 Element Code=6121
Observation period: 2017 to 2025 for Lesotho
Provider update: Not stated by the provider
Retrieved: 9 November 2026
Published here: 9 November 2026
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (FAO statistical database terms)
Attribution: Source: FAO, FAOSTAT. Licence: CC BY 4.0

How Lesotho compares in 2025 Neighbouring positions among 145 countries with a value for 2025.

9 Niger 85.8%e (Estimated value)
10 Madagascar 85.3%e (Estimated value)
11 Nigeria 80.5%e (Estimated value)
12 Lesotho 77.4%e (Estimated value)
13 Republic of the Congo 77.3%e (Estimated value)
14 Kenya 76.3%e (Estimated value)
15 Uganda 73.6%e (Estimated value)

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What this measures

Share of the population whose income, after setting aside an amount for other basic needs, is too low to buy the cheapest healthy diet available locally.

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