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Guinea-Bissau vs Lesotho

Digital government compared, on the UN’s 2024 index and the figures behind it.

Lesotho leads on 3 of 5 measures, and the overall scores are 0.104 apart. Measured against what their incomes predict, Lesotho does more with what it has (+0.062, against −0.032 for Guinea-Bissau).

E-Government Index

Guinea-Bissau 0.308

Lesotho 0.412

Online services

Guinea-Bissau 0.127

Lesotho 0.286

Human capital

Guinea-Bissau 0.308

Lesotho 0.486

Telecoms

Guinea-Bissau 0.490

Lesotho 0.464

E-participation

Guinea-Bissau 0.219

Lesotho 0.205

Guinea-BissauLesothoEach track runs from 0 to 1. The higher score in each row is in bold.
Guinea-Bissau and Lesotho: context figures
The contextGuinea-BissauLesotho
Income per person (PPP)$2,630$2,790
Population2.2 million2.3 million
Using the internet32%47%
Score vs what income predicts−0.032+0.062

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Sources: UN E-Government Survey 2024, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs; income per person (GDP, PPP) and population from the World Bank World Development Indicators, via the Quality of Government Standard Dataset, January 2025.