Botswana 
Facts
Population: 1,815,508
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 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 35.8% (male 330,377/female 319,376)
15-64 years: 60.3% (male 549,879/female 545,148)
65 years and over: 3.9% (male 28,725/female 42,003) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 1.503% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 23.17 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 13.63 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: 5.49 migrant(s)/1,000 population
note: there is an increasing flow of Zimbabweans into South Africa and Botswana in search of better economic opportunities (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.034 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.009 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.684 male(s)/female
total population: 1.003 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 43.97 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 45.02 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 42.9 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 50.58 years
male: 51.55 years
female: 49.58 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 2.73 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 37.3% (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 350,000 (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: 33,000 (2003 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: Christian 71.6%, Badimo 6%, other 1.4%, unspecified 0.4%, none 20.6% (2001 census).
Languages: Setswana 78.2%, Kalanga 7.9%, Sekgalagadi 2.8%, English 2.1% (official), other 8.6%, unspecified 0.4% (2001 census).
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 81.2%
male: 80.4%
female: 81.8% (2003 est.).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $17.94 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 5.4% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $10,900 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 2.4%
industry: 46.9% (including 36% mining)
services: 50.7% (2003 est.).
Labor force: 288,400 formal sector employees (2004).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: NA%
industry: NA%
services: NA%.
Population below poverty line: 30.3% (2003).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%.
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 11.4% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: 23.8% (2004).
Budget: revenues: $4.256 billion
expenditures: $3.968 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: livestock, sorghum, maize, millet, beans, sunflowers, groundnuts.
Industries: diamonds, copper, nickel, salt, soda ash, potash; livestock processing; textiles.
Industrial production growth rate: 6.3% (2006 est.).
Electricity - production: 823 million kWh (2004).
Electricity - consumption: 2.464 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 1.699 billion kWh (2004).
Exports: $4.836 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: diamonds, copper, nickel, soda ash, meat, textiles.
Exports - partners: European Free Trade Association (EFTA) 87%, Southern African Customs Union (SACU) 7%, Zimbabwe 4% (2004).
Imports: $3.034 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: foodstuffs, machinery, electrical goods, transport equipment, textiles, fuel and petroleum products, wood and paper products, metal and metal products.
Imports - partners: Southern African Customs Union (SACU) 74%, EFTA 17%, Zimbabwe 4% (2004).
Debt - external: $520 million (2006 est.).
Economic aid - recipient: $73 million (1995).
Currency (code): pula (BWP).
Exchange rates: pulas per US dollar - 5.8447 (2006), 5.1104 (2005), 4.6929 (2004), 4.9499 (2003), 6.3278 (2002).
Fiscal year: 1 April - 31 March.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
Press
(Weekly), Gaborone
http://www.gazette.bw/
Daily News
(Government-owned), Gaborone
(Independent weekly), Gabarone
http://www.mmegi.bw
(Weekly newspaper), Maun
http://www.ngamitimes.com/
(Independent weekly tabloid), Gaborone
http://www.thevoicebw.com
Botswana in the News
Despite last year's court ruling that the Kalahari Bushmen be allowed to return to their ancestral lands, reports indicate that the government of Botswana was preventing the Bushmen from returning.
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