Eswatini vs Lesotho: Drinking water usage in urban areas

Eswatini

1,871 people

in 2024

Lesotho

3,071 people

in 2024

Eswatini rank

60th

Lesotho rank

58th

Drinking water usage in urban areas over time

Lesotho currently reports 3,071 people against 1,871 people in Eswatini, a difference of 1,200 people.

That makes Lesotho's figure about 1.6 times Eswatini's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 25 shared years of data; in 2000 it was Eswatini ahead.

Eswatini ranks 60th and Lesotho ranks 58th of 188 countries.

Indicator: Drinking water usage in urban areas
Unit: people
Source: WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (2025) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 188 places, 4,613 data points, 2000–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Number of people using drinking water directly collected from surface waters.