Lesotho: Adjusted savings, particulate emission damage (% of GNI)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2021, Lesotho's adjusted savings, particulate emission damage (% of GNI) fell 0.13 percentage points on 2020 (from 1.59% to 1.46%).

Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1991 to 2020), the average change was −0.01 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.08 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.5 standard deviations below that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 0.09 percentage points in 2011 and the biggest yearly fall was 0.26 percentage points in 2001. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2012 to 2021 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 18% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

How it compares

In 2021, Lesotho had the 22nd highest value of the 160 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.

Closest to Lesotho in the 2021 ranking

• Guinea-Bissau — 18th of 160: 1.73%
• Nepal — 19th of 160: 1.7%
• Timor-Leste — 20th of 160: 1.48%
• Tanzania — 22nd of 160: 1.39%
• Cameroon — 23rd of 160: 1.36%
• Papua New Guinea — 24th of 160: 1.25%

What this measures

Particulate emissions damage is the damage due to exposure of a country's population to ambient concentrations of particulates measuring less than 2.5 microns in diameter (PM2.5), ambient ozone pollution, and indoor concentrations of PM2.5 in households cooking with solid fuels. Damages are calculated as foregone labor income due to premature death. Estimates of health impacts from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 are for 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010, and 2013. Data for other years have been extrapolated from trends in mortality rates. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of Gross National Income (GNI) which is the total income earned by all residents within an economic territory during an accounting period. It is equal to gross domestic product plus earned income receivable from abroad minus earned income payable abroad.

Limitations: Labor productivity losses, as calculated within the framework of adjusted net savings, represent only part of the economic costs of air pollution and should be interpreted as a lower-end estimate.

Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.

All 32 values

Adjusted savings, particulate emission damage (% of GNI) in nearby economies

• Angola — 0.64% (2021)
• Benin — 2.05% (2021)
• Botswana — 0.49% (2021)
• Burkina Faso — 2.3% (2021)
• Burundi — 1.86% (2021)
• Cabo Verde — 0.44% (2021)
• Cameroon — 1.36% (2021)
• Central African Republic — 0.91% (2021)
• Chad — 3.21% (2021)

More economic policy & debt data for Lesotho

• General government final consumption expenditure (constant 2015 US$) — US$805.47 million (2025)
• General government final consumption expenditure (constant LCU) — 7.4 billion (2025)
• Households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (constant 2015 US$) — US$1.99 billion (2025)
• Households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (constant LCU) — 21.89 billion (2025)
• Households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure per capita (constant 2015 US$) — US$840.08 (2025)
• Final consumption expenditure (constant 2015 US$) — US$2.81 billion (2025)
• Final consumption expenditure (constant LCU) — 29.29 billion (2025)
• Gross national expenditure (constant 2015 US$)

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Questions people ask

What is Lesotho's adjusted savings, particulate emission damage (% of GNI)?

1.46% in 2021, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1990?

It is down 0.49 percentage points from 1.95% in 1990. The highest value was 1.99% in 1993 and the lowest 1.34% in 2007.

How does Lesotho rank?

22nd highest of 160 economies with data for 2021.

Is the latest change in adjusted savings, particulate emission damage (% of GNI) unusual for Lesotho?

In 2021, Lesotho's adjusted savings, particulate emission damage (% of GNI) fell 0.13 percentage points on 2020 (from 1.59% to 1.46%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1991 to 2020), the average change was −0.01 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.08 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.5 standard deviations below that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator NY.ADJ.DPEM.GN.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Global Burden of Disease 2013 study, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.

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