Botswana

Facts

Population:  1,586,119 note:  estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:  0-14 years:  40.3% (male 321,164; female 318,007) 15-64 years:  55.56% (male 423,954; female 457,227) 65 years and over:  4.14% (male 26,691; female 39,076) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:  0.47% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:  28.85 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:  24.18 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:  0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:  at birth:  1.03 male(s)/female under 15 years:  1.01 male(s)/female 15-64 years:  0.93 male(s)/female 65 years and over:  0.68 male(s)/female total population:  0.95 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:  63.2 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:  total population:  37.13 years male:  36.77 years female:  37.51 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:  3.7 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:  35.8% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:  290,000 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:  24,000 (1999 est.)
Nationality:  noun:  Motswana (singular), Batswana (plural) adjective:  Motswana (singular), Batswana (plural)
Ethnic groups:  Tswana (or Setswana) 79%, Kalanga 11%, Basarwa 3%, other, including Kgalagadi and white 7%
Religions:  indigenous beliefs 50%, Christian 50%
Languages:  English (official), Setswana
Literacy:  definition:  age 15 and over can read and write total population:  69.8% male:  80.5% female:  59.9% (1995 est.)
GDP:  purchasing power parity - $10.4 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:  6% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:  purchasing power parity - $6,600 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:  agriculture:  4% industry:  46% (including 36% mining) services:  50% (1998 est.)
Population below poverty line:  47% (2000 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:  lowest 10%:  NA% highest 10%:  NA%
Inflation rate (consumer prices):  8.6% (2000 est.)
Labor force:  235,000 formal sector employees (1995)
Labor force - by occupation:  100,000 public sector; 135,000 private sector, including 14,300 who are employed in various mines in South Africa; most others engaged in cattle raising and subsistence agriculture (1995 est.)
Unemployment rate:  40% (2000 est.)
Budget:  revenues:  $1.6 billion expenditures:  $1.8 billion, including capital expenditures of $560 million (FY96)
Industries:  diamonds, copper, nickel, coal, salt, soda ash, potash; livestock processing
Industrial production growth rate:  6.2% (2000 est.)
Electricity - production:  610 million kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:  fossil fuel:  100% hydro:  0% nuclear:  0% other:  0% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:  1.517 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:  0 kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:  950 million kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:  sorghum, corn, millet, pulses, groundnuts (peanuts), beans, cowpeas, sunflower seed; livestock
Exports:  $2.6 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Exports - commodities:  diamonds 72%, vehicles, copper, nickel, meat (1998)
Exports - partners:  EU 77%, Southern African Customs Union (SACU) 18%, Zimbabwe 3% (1998)
Imports:  $2.2 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Imports - commodities:  foodstuffs, machinery and transport equipment, textiles, petroleum products
Imports - partners:  Southern African Customs Union (SACU) 76%, Europe 10%, South Korea 5% (1998)
Debt - external:  $455 million (2000)
Economic aid - recipient:  $73 million (1995)
Currency:  pula (BWP)
Currency code:  BWP
Exchange rates:  pulas per US dollar - 5.4585 (January 2001), 5.1018 (2000), 4.6244 (1999), 4.2259 (1998), 3.6508 (1997), 3.3242 (1996)
Fiscal year:  1 April - 31 March

Statistics: CIA World Factbook.

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