Nationality:
noun: Mosotho (singular), Basotho (plural)
adjective: Basotho
Ethnic divisions: Sotho 99.7%, Europeans 1,600, Asians 800
Religions: Christian 80%, rest indigenous beliefs
Languages: Sesotho (southern Sotho), English (official), Zulu, Xhosa
Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1966)
total population: 59%
male: 44%
female: 68%
Labor force: 689,000 economically active
by occupation: 86.2% of resident population engaged in subsistence
agriculture; roughly 60% of the active male wage earners work in South
Africa
@Lesotho:Government
Names:
conventional long form: Kingdom of Lesotho
conventional short form: Lesotho
former: Basutoland
Digraph: LT
Type: constitutional monarchy