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Botswana

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Botswana is a country. The capital city is Gaborone, located in the Southern Africa region of Africa. It has a land area of 566,730 km², a population of 2,480,244 people and uses the currency Botswana pula. The President is Mokgweetsi Masisi.

Key facts

currency: Botswana pula
capital city: Gaborone
region: Southern Africa
continent: Africa
land area: 566,730 km²
population: 2,480,244 people
political leader: Mokgweetsi Masisi (President)

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central government debt: 19.62 % of GDP
expense: 25.09 % of GDP
GDP: 19,396,084,498.01 current US$
inflation: 5.07 annual %
self-employed workers: 31.08 % of total employment
tax revenue: 19.65 % of GDP
unemployment: 23.38 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 28.78 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 9,000 people
democracy score: 7.81
democracy type: Flawed democracy
individuals using the Internet: 81.40 % of population
military expenditure: 2.53 % of GDP
net migration: -6,487 people
press freedom: 3.12
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 11.11 %
birth rate: 23.04 per 1,000 people
death rate: 6.90 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 457.46 current US$
health expenditure: 6.31 % of GDP
incidence of HIV: 1.92 per 1,000 uninfected population
hospital beds: 2.22 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 66
suicide mortality rate: 16.10 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 258,620.00 km²
alternative and nuclear energy: 0.00 % of total energy use
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 7.42 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 75.90 % of population
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: 2.75 births per woman
forest area: 150,181 km²
fossil fuel energy consumption: 74.69 % of total
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 12.71 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 18.90
methane emissions: 3.39 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 1.52 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 1,243,275 people
male population: 1,236,969 people
renewable energy consumption: 27.40 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 572,887.23 km²
rural population: 672,965 people
urban land area: 804.35 km²
urban population: 1,807,279 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 0.00 % of total population

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