Botswana
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Key facts
- Currency: Botswana pula
- Capital city: Gaborone
- Region: Southern Africa
- Continent: Africa
- Land area: 566,730 km²
- Population: 2,630,296
- Political Leader: Mokgweetsi Masisi (President)
Latest news (see all)
Elephant in the room: Why Botswana, Namibia want fewer of the gentle giants
Read: Al Jazeera
2024-04-13
Botswana offers Germany 20,000 elephants to protest limit on hunting trophy imports
Read: The Washington Times
2024-04-04
Germany might be hit with 20,000 elephants amidst row with Botswana over hunting
Read: Euronews
2024-04-04
Botswana Butchery restaurants in Australia enter voluntary administration, White + Wong's eateries also close
Read: NZ Herald
2024-04-04
Botswana threatens to flood Germany with 20,000 elephants if it curbs hunting trophy imports
Read: Independent
2024-04-04
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General information
Business
| Central government debt | 19.62 % of GDP |
| Expense | 28.41 % of GDP |
| GDP | 20,355,500,000.00 current US$ |
| Inflation | 11.67 annual % |
| Self-employed | 30.94 % of total employment |
| Tax revenue | 22.25 % of GDP |
| Unemployment | 23.61 % of total labor force |
| Vulnerable employment | 28.67 % of total employment |
Environment
| Agricultural land | 258,620.00 km² |
| Alternative and nuclear energy | 0.00 % of total energy use |
| Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) | 5,763.69 kt |
| Electricity production from coal sources | 96.36 % of total |
| Electricity production from natural gas sources | 0.00 % of total |
| Electricity production from hydroelectric sources | 0.00 % of total |
| Electricity production from nuclear sources | 0.00 % of total |
| Electricity production from oil sources | 3.61 % of total |
| Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric | 0.03 % of total |
| Net energy imports | 44.50 % of energy use |
| Fertility rate | 2.79 births per woman |
| Forest area | 151,364 km² |
| Fossil fuel energy consumption | 74.69 % of total |
| Other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 | 841.57 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
| Median age | 19.70 years |
| Methane emissions | 3,434.49 kt of CO2 equivalent |
| Nitrous oxide emissions | 2,963.63 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
| Female Population | 1,331,489 |
| Male Population | 1,298,807 |
| Renewable energy consumption | 27.21 % of total final energy consumption |
| Rural land area | 572,887.00 km² |
| Rural population | 730,591 |
| Urban land area | 804.35 km² |
| Urban population | 1,899,705 |
| Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters | 0.00 % of total population |
Health
| Birth rate | 23.58 per 1,000 people |
| Death rate | 9.46 per 1,000 people |
| Health expenditure per capita | 362.74 current US$ |
| Health expenditure | 6.19 % of GDP |
| Incidence of HIV | 3.48 per 1,000 uninfected population |
| Hospital beds | 1.80 per 1,000 people |
| Life expectancy at birth | 61 years |
| Suicide mortality rate | 16.10 per 100,000 population |
Other
| Access to electricity | 73.73 % of population |
| Individuals using the Internet | 73.50 % of population |
| Net migration | 3,000 |
| Press freedom | 3.12 |
Politics
| Armed forces personnel | 9,000 |
| Democracy score | 7.81 |
| Democracy type | Flawed democracy |
| Military expenditure | 2.74 % of GDP |
| Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments | 11.11 % |
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Updated: 1 day ago
