Cereals and their products — Phosphorus supply — Value in Lesotho
Lesotho: Cereals and their products — Phosphorus supply — Value was 545 mg/cap/d in 2023. ▼ Falling
Cereals and their products — Phosphorus supply — Value in Lesotho, 2010–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in mg/cap/d.
Analysis
In 2023, cereals and their products — phosphorus supply — value in Lesotho stood at 545 mg/cap/d.
The figure is up 2.6% on the previous year and down 31.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cereals and their products — phosphorus supply — value in Lesotho peaked at 902 mg/cap/d in 2010 and was at its lowest, 531 mg/cap/d, in 2022.
Lesotho ranks 48th of 163 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 14 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 726.8 mg/cap/d | 602 mg/cap/d | 902 mg/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 536.75 mg/cap/d | 531 mg/cap/d | 545 mg/cap/d | 4 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Lesotho
- Agriculture share gdp 6.49 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 6.49 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 5.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2024)
- Rural population 55.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.7% (2025)
- Rural population 1.31 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 6.5% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 166.92 million current US$ (2025)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 35,490 An (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cereals and their products — phosphorus supply — value in Lesotho?
- Cereals and their products — phosphorus supply — value in Lesotho was 545 mg/cap/d in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cereals and their products — phosphorus supply — value recorded in Lesotho?
- The highest recorded value was 902 mg/cap/d in 2010.
- What is the lowest cereals and their products — phosphorus supply — value recorded in Lesotho?
- The lowest recorded value was 531 mg/cap/d in 2022.
- How does Lesotho rank for cereals and their products — phosphorus supply — value?
- Lesotho ranks 48th out of 163 countries with data for 2023.
- Is cereals and their products — phosphorus supply — value rising or falling in Lesotho?
- Over the last ten years it is down 31.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Lesotho data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Cereals and their products — Phosphorus supply — Value. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
The dataset presents average daily per capita macro and micro nutrient availability by country and by FAO/WHO GIFT food groups (that are different from those used for the Food Balance Sheets), expressed in grams/milligrams/micrograms/kcal per capita per day. The population numbers used to calculate these statistics can be found in the Supply Utilization Accounts (SUA) dataset of FAOSTAT, as Total Population. Food availability quantities are derived from the SUA dataset. SUAs present a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply and utilization during a specified reference period. The SUA shows for each food item - i.e. each primary commodity and a number of processed commodities potentially available for human consumption - the sources of supply and its utilization. The total quantity of foodstuffs produced in a country added to the total quantity imported and adjusted to any change in stocks that may have occurred since the beginning of the reference period gives the supply available during that period. On the utilization side a distinction is made between the quantities exported, fed to livestock, used for seed, put to manufacture for food use and non-food uses, losses during storage and transportation, and food supplies available for human consumption. The per capita supply of each such food item available for human consumption is then obtained by dividing the respective quantity by the related data on the population actually partaking of it.