Fuel Price Monitor · Oct 2026
Petrol 95 costs M28.60 a litre.
In the October 2026 report, petrol 95 costs M28.60 a litre, petrol 93 M28.20, diesel 50ppm M34.90 and paraffin M25.90. Prices rose from September 2026.
Read more +Data Matrix: surveys, polls and public data for Lesotho
National samples of 2,000. Published with method and margin of error.
What households are paying now
Fuel, inflation, borrowing and data. Each figure links to its monitor. The archive from October 2023 is available to buy.
Petrol 95 M28.60 Oct 2026
Inflation 2.6% Aug 2026
Prime rate 10.25% Jul 2026
1 GB of data M32.88 Oct 2026
Updated monthly
Fuel Price Monitor
Petrol, diesel and paraffin pump prices in Lesotho, from the Petroleum Fund.
View → Updated monthlyConsumer Price Index
Headline and food inflation in Lesotho, from the Bureau of Statistics.
View → Updated monthlyCost of Debt
Prime lending, policy and Treasury bill rates, from the Central Bank of Lesotho.
View → Updated monthlyMobile Data Cost
The price of one gigabyte on Vodacom and Econet flagship bundles.
View → Updated quarterlyNewspaper Rankings
Lesotho newspapers ranked by social media reach, led by Facebook.
View → Updated quarterlyRadio Rankings
Lesotho radio stations ranked by social media reach.
View →How we survey
Every number we publish carries its source, method and margin of error.
A poll is only useful if you know who was asked. We draw samples to represent Lesotho by region, urban and rural setting, age and sex, then supervise the fieldwork and check it back before anything is analysed.
When a budget lands, a fuel price moves or a campaign starts, a flash poll gives a fast read on one question. When a decision needs the full picture, a national survey answers many.
What we do
Three kinds of work.
Surveys and polling
Asking Lesotho, properly.
Household and individual surveys, quick polls on the issue of the week, and opinion polling on parties, leaders, policy and brands. Designed, fielded and analysed by one team.
- Nationally representative surveys n = 2,000Households and individuals, drawn to represent Lesotho, with the margin of error reported for every estimate.
- Flash polls fast turnaroundOne question that cannot wait: a budget, a price change, a campaign or a breaking event.
- Opinion polls published with methodPolicy, institutions, leaders, brands and current affairs, with the sample and method alongside.
- Paper and tablet fieldwork PAPI / CAPISupervision, back-checks and data validation built into every project.
Live data
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Public monitors, updated on schedule.
Fuel, inflation, borrowing costs, data prices, and newspaper and radio reach. The full archive is available to buy.
Open the research hub →Research and advisory
From the numbers to the decision.
- Social research and evaluations
- Market and product research
- Risk and actuarial work
- Political advisory and constituency research
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health centres and hospitals whose clinical records were brought up to date
Case study: health data
Clearing a five-year backlog of clinical data.
Clinical records from more than 118 health centres and hospitals had built up over five years. We assembled a multidisciplinary team that cleared the backlog and delivered a full set of statistical tables and an epidemiological profile for the Kingdom of Lesotho.
The work laid the base for national analysis of health data at scale.
Team: nurses, epidemiologists, statisticians, software engineers, database designers, data clerks
ICT and telecoms
Moving an internet provider into data centres
Strategy that took an ISP from hardware sales to hosting, secure VPNs and migrated systems, rolled out nationally in stages.
Health networks
The largest public-sector wide-area network in the country
Fibre, data centres and hotspots linking health centres and district teams, carrying the health management information system.
Advisory
Business plans that raised over LSL 10m
Bankable plans for equity and debt, and fleet transaction advisory for government.
Sectors: ICT, telecommunications, health and the public sector, commercial broiler farming, financial services and insurance, strategy and investments.
The research team
People you can call.
Our team works from Lower Thetsane, Maseru, and brings in specialist partners when a project needs them.
- Lead data scientistMSc Mathematical Statistics, BSc Actuarial Science
- EconomistTen years in research, programme design and impact evaluation
- Consulting actuariesFellows of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and ASSA
Work with us
Tell us what you need to decide.
We'll come back with how we'd answer it: the sample, the method, the timeline and the cost.
Data Matrix, Lower Thetsane, Maseru
+266 22325470
marketsolutions [at] datamatrix [dot] co [dot] ls