2,143,141
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the
effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life
expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population
and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age
and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2000 est.)

0-14 years: 40% (male 426,556; female 421,563)
15-64 years: 56% (male 575,580; female 619,280)
65 years and over: 4% (male 42,274; female 57,888) (2000 est.)

1.65% (2000 est.)

31.74 births/1,000 population (2000 est.)

14.59 deaths/1,000 population (2000 est.)

-0.64 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2000 est.)

at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.01 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.93 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.73 male(s)/female
total population: 0.95 male(s)/female (2000 est.)

82.97 deaths/1,000 live births (2000 est.)

total population: 50.79 years
male: 49.78 years
female: 51.84 years (2000 est.)

4.15 children born/woman (2000 est.)

noun: Mosotho (singular), Basotho (plural)
adjective: Basotho

Sotho 99.7%, Europeans, Asians, and other 0.3%,

Christian 80%, indigenous beliefs 20%

Sesotho (southern Sotho), English (official), Zulu, Xhosa

definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 71.3%
male: 81.1%
female: 62.3% (1995 est.)