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English (official, used for government business), siSwati (official)
MBABANE (capital) 66,000 (2014)
- Conventional long form
- Kingdom of Swaziland
- Conventional short form
- Swaziland
- Local long form
- Umbuso weSwatini
- Local short form
- eSwatini
absolute monarchy
- Name
- Mbabane
- Geographic coordinates
- 26 19 S, 31 08 E
- Time difference
- UTC+2 (7 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations; non-party state to the ICCt
A small, landlocked kingdom, Swaziland is bordered in the north, west and south by the Republic of South Africa and by Mozambique in the east. Swaziland depends on South Africa for 60% of its exports and for more than 90% of its imports. Swaziland's currency is pegged to the South African rand, effectively relinquishing Swaziland's monetary policy to South Africa. The government is dependent on customs duties from the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) for 49% of revenue; income tax accounts for 27% and a valued added tax for 19% of revenues. Swaziland is a lower middle income country, but its income distribution is highly skewed, with an estimated 20% of the population controlling 80% of the nation’s wealth. As of 2017, more than one-quarter of the adult population was infected by HIV/AIDS; Swaziland has the world’s highest HIV prevalence rate.
- Inflation
- 7.846%
- External debt stocks
- US$ 390,790,000
- Total tax rate (% of commercial profits)
- 35.1%
- Real Interest Rate
- 3.799%
- Manufacturing, value added (% of GDP)
- 33.467%
- Current Account Balance
- US$ 414,839,172
- Labor Force, Total
- 439,343
- Employment in Agriculture
- %
- Employment in Industry
- %
- Employment in Services
- %
- Unemployment Rate
- 25.28%
- Imports of goods and services
- US$ 2,014,478,389
- Exports of goods and services
- US$ 1,996,969,108
- Total Merchandise Trade
- 74.29%
- FDI, net inflows
- US$ 31,681,320
- Commercial Service Exports
- US$ 238,322,527
sugarcane, corn, cotton, citrus, pineapples, cattle, goats
soft drink concentrates, coal, forestry, sugar processing, textiles, and apparel
- Commodities
- soft drink concentrates, sugar, timber, cotton yarn, refrigerators, citrus, and canned fruit
- Partners
- Commodities
- motor vehicles, machinery, transport equipment, foodstuffs, petroleum products, chemicals
- Partners