definition: age 15 and over can read and writetotal population: 79.4%male: 70.1%female: 88.3% (2015) School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education) total: 11 yearsmale: 10 yearsfemale: 11 years (2015) Unemployment, youth ages 15-24 total: 34.4%male: NAfemale: NA (2013 est....
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the remaining small minority (0.3 percent). Thedependency ratio—the number of people under 15 and over 65 years of age, compared with those who fall between— is a very high, 72.5 percent. Approximately 80 percent are Christians, while 20 percent follow indigenous faiths. A total of 81 per...
Unemployment rate: 45% (2002) Population below poverty line: 49% (1999) Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 0.9% highest 10%: 43.4% Inflation rate (consumer prices): 4.7% (2005 est.) Budget: revenues: $738.5 million expenditures: $792.1 million; includ...
In theory, at least, these workers have more bargaining lever- age than suppliers to the US market, due to higher levels of capital investments by manufacturers. However, South Afri- can retailers have lower levels of interest in CoCs than their US and European counterparts. We found that ...
thepopulation growthis limited by infant mortality and death rates that are well above the world average and largely due to theprevalenceof AIDS. Lesotho’s population is relatively young, with more than three-fifths of the population below age 29. Life expectancy in Lesotho is below the average...
With over half the population living below the poverty line and an unemployment rate that hovers around 80% among the country’s youth population, individuals are desperate for economic opportunities. Just over this past weekend, the police and family of 19-year-old Reitumetse Phiri were ...