Youth unemployment in Lesotho stands at 39 percent, the public wage bill consumes 17.8 percent of GDP, and the government’s own 2025/26 budget acknowledges that the crisis falls hardest on women. Yet the question of what it actually costs to create a formal, lasting job in the Kingdom almost never surfaces in budget speeches or investment conferences. The answer, when you triangulate from available data, is both specific and sobering. No government agency publishes a single cost-per-job figure for Lesotho.…Continue reading with a subscriptionSubscribe for full access to every story.Subscribe - M85/monthAlready a subscriber? Sign in
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