International Rankings of Eswatini 2024, country comparisons

This table lists the international rankings of Eswatini, in all categories that are published in the CIA World Factbook, and those that we derived from them. Additional international rankings of Eswatini, can be found in the main country ranks menu.
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Ranked Data	Rank	Value	Year
Communications
Broadband - fixed subscriptions - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants	53	1.00	2020
Broadband - fixed subscriptions - total	175	12000	2020
Internet users - percent of population	59	59.00 %	2021
Internet users - total	158	708000	2021
Telephones - fixed lines - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants	55	4.00	2021
Telephones - fixed lines - total subscriptions	163	37746	2022
Telephones - mobile cellular - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants	43	120.00	2021
Telephones - mobile cellular - total subscriptions	159	1.400 million	2021
Economy
Budget - expenditures	164	1.454 billion US Dollars	2020
Budget - revenues	163	1.131 billion US Dollars	2020
Budget surplus (+) or deficit (-)	95	8.50 % of GDP	N/A
Current account balance	68	124.463 million US Dollars	2021
Debt - external	180	535.000 million US Dollars	2019
Exchange rates	88	14.78	2021
Exports	157	2.132 billion US Dollars	2021
GDP (official exchange rate)	171	4.484 billion US Dollars	2019
GDP - composition by end use - exports of goods and services	64	47.90 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - government consumption	42	21.30 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - household consumption	95	64.00 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - imports of goods and services	95	46.30 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - investment in fixed capital	125	13.40 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - investment in inventories	57	0.10 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by sector of origin - agriculture	98	6.50 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by sector of origin - industry	16	45.00 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by sector of origin - services	149	48.60 % of GDP	2017
Gini Index coefficient - distribution of family income	5	55 %	2016
Household income or consumption by percentage share - highest 10%	17	40.10 % share of income accruing to lowest and highest 10% of population	2010
Household income or consumption by percentage share - lowest 10%	34	1.70 % share of income accruing to lowest and highest 10% of population	N/A
Imports	171	2.173 billion US Dollars	2021
Industrial production growth rate	14	15.38 %	2021
Inflation rate (consumer prices)	115	2.60 %	2019
Labor force	162	383500 US Dollars	2021
Population below poverty line	11	59 %	2016
Public debt	164	28.40 % of GDP	2017
Real GDP (purchasing power parity)	161	10.560 billion US Dollars	2021
Real GDP growth rate	43	7.88 %	2021
Real GDP per capita	126	8900 US Dollars	2021
Remittances	89	3	2021
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold	165	572.282 million US Dollars	2021
Taxes and other revenues	31	28.60 % of GDP	N/A
Unemployment rate	7	25.76 %	2021
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) - female	9	54.10 %	N/A
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) - male	3	47.70 %	N/A
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) - total	3	50.90 %	2021
Energy
Carbon dioxide emissions - from coal and metallurgical coke	100	350000 metric tonnes of CO2	2019
Carbon dioxide emissions - from petroleum and other liquids	175	875000 metric tonnes of CO2	2019
Carbon dioxide emissions - total	169	1.224 million	2019
Coal - consumption	94	169000 metric tons	2020
Coal - exports	35	163000 metric tons	2020
Coal - imports	80	135000 metric tons	2020
Coal - production	68	108000 metric tons	2020
Coal - proven reserves	57	144.000 million metric tons	2019
Electricity - consumption	152	1.448 billion kWh	2019
Electricity - imports	73	942.000 million kWh	2019
Electricity - installed generating capacity	161	286000 kWh	2020
Electricity - transmission/distribution losses	150	154.700 million kWh	2019
Electricity access - electrification - rural areas	33	79	2021
Electricity access - electrification - total population	32	83	2021
Electricity access - electrification - urban areas	23	95	2021
Electricity generation sources - biomass and waste	3	31.00 %	2020
Electricity generation sources - fossil fuels	104	44.10 %	2020
Electricity generation sources - hydroelectricity	73	24.80 %	2020
Electricity generation sources - solar	67	0.20 %	2020
Energy consumption per capita	136	19.371 million Btu/person	2019
Petroleum - refined petroleum consumption	167	6000 bbl/day	2019
Refined petroleum products - imports	170	5279 bbl/day	2015
Environment
Air pollutants - carbon dioxide emissions	153	1 megatons	2016
Air pollutants - methane emissions	149	2 megatons	2020
Air pollutants - particulate matter emissions	106	15 micrograms per cubic meter	2019
Land use - agricultural land	25	68	2018
Land use - arable land	98	10	2018
Land use - forest	94	32	2018
Land use - permanent crops	77	1	2018
Land use - permanent pasture	13	58	2018
Revenue from forest resources	30	2 % of GDP	2018
Total renewable water resources	149	4.510 billion cubic meters	2020
Total water withdrawal - agricultural	86	1.010 billion cubic meters	2020
Total water withdrawal - industrial	94	20.000 million cubic meters	2020
Total water withdrawal - municipal	109	40.000 million cubic meters	2020
Urbanization - rate of urbanization	56	2.42	N/A
Urbanization - urban population	167	25	2023
Geography
Area - land	158	17204 sq km	N/A
Area - total	161	17364 sq km	N/A
Area - water	133	160 sq km	N/A
Elevation - highest point	106	1862 meters	N/A
Elevation - lowest point	32	21 meters	N/A
Elevation - mean elevation	107	305 meters	N/A
Irrigated land	111	500 sq km	2012
Land boundaries - total	135	546 km	N/A
Land use - agricultural land	25	68	2018
Land use - arable land	98	10	2018
Land use - forest	94	32	2018
Land use - permanent crops	77	1	2018
Land use - permanent pasture	13	58	2018
Population Density	145	65.68 Persons per sq km	N/A
Military
Military expenditures	32	2 % of GDP	2021
Population
Alcohol consumption per capita - beer	66	2 liters of pure alcohol	2019
Alcohol consumption per capita - other alcohols	6	5 liters of pure alcohol	2019
Alcohol consumption per capita - total	47	8 liters of pure alcohol	2019
Birth rate	49	22.80 births/1,000 population	2023
Children under the age of 5 years underweight	55	6 %	2014
Contraceptive prevalence rate	38	66.10 %	2014
Current health expenditure	53	7 % of GDP	2020
Currently married women (ages 15-49)	154	37 %	2023
Death rate	33	9.50 deaths/1,000 population	2023
Dependency ratios - elderly dependency ratio	131	6.50 %	N/A
Dependency ratios - potential support ratio	39	15.30 %	2021
Dependency ratios - total dependency ratio	57	64.00 %	N/A
Dependency ratios - youth dependency ratio	52	57.40 %	N/A
Drinking water source - improved	22	98 % of population	N/A
Drinking water source - rural	35	25 % of population	N/A
Drinking water source - total	25	20 % of population	2020
Drinking water source - unimproved	43	3 % of population	N/A
Education expenditures	36	5 % of GDP	2021
Gross reproduction rate	55	1.19 %	2023
Infant mortality rate - female	32	33.90 deaths/1,000 live births	N/A
Infant mortality rate - male	32	42.30 deaths/1,000 live births	N/A
Infant mortality rate - total	33	38.10 deaths/1,000 live births	2023
Life expectancy at birth - female	139	62 years	N/A
Life expectancy at birth - male	142	58 years	N/A
Life expectancy at birth - total population	140	60 years	2023
Literacy - definition	2	15	N/A
Literacy - female	62	89 %	2018
Literacy - male	53	88 %	N/A
Literacy - total population	58	88 %	N/A
Maternal mortality ratio	22	437.00 deaths/100,000 live births	2017
Median age - female	126	26 years	N/A
Median age - male	128	23 years	N/A
Median age - total	119	24 years	2023
Net migration rate	103	6.10 migrant(s)/1,000 population	N/A
Obesity - adult prevalence rate	90	16.50 %	2016
Physicians density	147	0.14 physicians/1,000 population	2020
Population	161	1.130 million	2023
Population growth rate	101	0.72 %	2023
Sanitation facility access - improved	42	92 % of population	N/A
Sanitation facility access - rural	74	16 % of population	N/A
Sanitation facility access - total	64	14 % of population	2020
Sanitation facility access - unimproved	53	8 % of population	N/A
Sex ratio - 0-14 years	16	1.00 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - 15-64 years	36	0.87 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - 65 years and over	52	0.59 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - at birth	11	1.03 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - total population	29	0.90 male(s)/female	N/A
Total fertility rate	68	2.41 children born/woman	2023
Urbanization - rate of urbanization	56	2.42	N/A
Urbanization - urban population	167	25	2023
Transportation
Airports	111	16	2024
Railways - narrow gauge	49	301	2014
Railways - total	92	301 km	2014
Roadways - paved	91	1500 km	2022
Roadways - total	94	4594 km	2022

*CALCULATED FIGURES are those that we calculated from data presented by the CIA World Factbook. For example, we calculated population density by dividing the total population by the land area, the electricity consumption per capita by dividing electricity consumption by the total population, etc.

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