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Lesotho

Capital
Maseru
First surveyed in
2000
Population
2. 142 million

Lesotho has completed surveys with Afrobarometer in 2000, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2021, 2023, and 2024. Surveys are conducted in English and Sesotho. The national partner is Advision Lesotho. 

Key stats

Data from the Round 10 survey in Lesotho
71 %
Basotho say Southern Africans should be able to move freely across international borders in order to trade or work in other countries.
83 %
citizens want their MPs to act in accordance with voters’ demands rather than their own ideas.
71 %
Basotho say their government should do all it can to reclaim the territory that Lesotho lost to South Africa during the colonial era.