• Population*.......................................................................2,125,262 (July 2007 est.)
• Population growth rate ..........................................................0.144% % (2007 est.)
• Birth rate....................................................24.72 births/1,000 population (2007 est.)
• Death rate.................................................22.49 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.)
• Net migration rate................................-0.78 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.)
• Ethnic groups..................................Sotho 99.7%, Europeans, Asians, and other 0.3%

* Note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2007 est.)