- Total external debt: $689.7 million - Total external debt
payments: gives $54.2 million each year to the rich world in
debt payments. - Population: 1.8 million - Percentage of adults
who can read and write: 82.2% - Average life expectancy: 42.6
years - HIV prevalence: 23.2% - Total health spending: 2.4% of
GDP (2003) - Total spending on debt service payments: 3.7% of
GDP - Annual GDP: $1.5 billion Lesotho is a small country in
Southern Africa and is completely landlocked by South Africa.
The country is most highlands and is a difficult country to live
in as many of the villages are only accessible by horseback. It
has limited natural resources and a narrow production and export
base. Aside from subsistence agriculture, the garment sector
plays a critical. The economy is highly open, with imports
amounting to about 90 percent of GDP, and depends heavily on
inflows of workers’ remittances and receipts from the Southern
African Customs Union (SACU). Lesotho was originally named
Basutoland, but upon gaining ind