Income percentiles in Lesotho
Where each yearly income band starts in Lesotho, in LSL, and what a reading there measures.
Reference data version 2026.4, reference year 2024.
Three cut-offs
- Bottom tenth
- under LSL 9,700 a year
- Top tenth
- from LSL 80,000 a year
- Top hundredth
- from LSL 200,000 a year
The middle of the distribution, the 40th to 55th percentile, is LSL 22,000 – LSL 31,000 a year.
Every band
The 11 bands the income question offers in Lesotho, verbatim, lowest first.
| Band | Yearly income |
|---|---|
| Below the 10th percentile | under LSL 9,700 |
| 10th to 25th percentile | LSL 9,700 – LSL 15,000 |
| 25th to 40th percentile | LSL 15,000 – LSL 22,000 |
| 40th to 55th percentile | LSL 22,000 – LSL 31,000 |
| 55th to 70th percentile | LSL 31,000 – LSL 44,000 |
| 70th to 80th percentile | LSL 44,000 – LSL 57,000 |
| 80th to 90th percentile | LSL 57,000 – LSL 80,000 |
| 90th to 95th percentile | LSL 80,000 – LSL 110,000 |
| 95th to 98th percentile | LSL 110,000 – LSL 160,000 |
| 98th to 99th percentile | LSL 160,000 – LSL 200,000 |
| Top 1% | LSL 200,000 or more |
Per earner. The source publishes household consumption divided by everyone in the household; the labels multiply it by 3.18, the people one worker's income stands for in Lesotho, so a person can place their own income.
In Lesotho the distribution is measured on consumption, not income. The two are not interchangeable, and the multiplier does not turn one into the other.
What the data rests on
- Confidence
- Low
- Years covered
- 1981 to 2024
- Survey-based years
- 0% of covered years
- Nearest survey
- 7 years from 2024
- Age bands
- none published; the all-ages row answers
- Measured on
- consumption
- Currency
- LSL (LSL)
Why: the nearest measured survey is 7 years from the reference year.
What a reading in Lesotho measures
- Your place: which of the bands above your income is in now, against the band it was in a year ago, read as a position in the income distribution of Lesotho itself.
- Your ground: both incomes with consumer prices in Lesotho taken out, against how the middle of the distribution moved over the same year.
- Nothing is compared across borders. A reading in Lesotho is measured against Lesotho alone.
A band is a range, so a move inside one band does not register, and published distributions understate the very top. The confidence level above travels onto every card measured here.