Botswana
63 figures for Botswana, each the latest the source has. Pick one to see how Botswana compares.
Economy
- GDP per person $7,778 (2025)
- GDP per person, price-adjusted $20,698 (2025)
- Economic growth −0.7% (2025)
- Unemployment 24.5% (2025)
- Inflation +2.8% (2024)
- Exports 27.1% (2024)
- Income per person $16,984 (2023)
- Household wealth 62.8 (2016)
- Poorer households 20.8% (2016)
- Wealth inequality 0.17 (2016)
People
- Population 2.48 million (2023)
- Population growth +1.61% (2025)
- Births per woman 2.70 (2024)
- Typical age 22.9 (2023)
- Living in cities 68.0% (2025)
- Human Development Index 0.731 (2023)
- Women’s vs men’s development 0.997 (2023)
- People per household 6.2 (2016)
- People over 65 4.8% (2014)
- Children under 15 32.3% (2014)
Health
- Life expectancy 69.2 (2023)
- Child deaths (under 5) 33.3 (2024)
- Mothers dying in childbirth 155 (2023)
- Health spending per person $490 (2023)
- Measles vaccination 97% (2024)
- Overweight adults 42.0% (2022)
- Stunted children 29.1% (2004)
- Overweight children 11.7% (2004)
- Homes with piped water 0.0% (2016)
- Homes with a flush toilet 29.1% (2016)
Education
- Years of schooling 10.5 (2023)
- Expected years in school 11.4 (2023)
- Secondary school enrollment 70.6% (2021)
- Education spending 8.1% (2020)
- Teens in school 86.5% (2014)
Environment
- CO₂ per person 2.96 (2024)
- Total CO₂ emissions 7.46 million (2024)
- Forest cover 26.3% (2023)
- Air pollution (PM2.5) 16.7 (2024)
- Renewable energy share 27.4% (2021)
- Average temperature 21.3 (2022)
Energy
- Energy use per person 1,250 (2023)
- Access to electricity 80.2% (2024)
- Renewable electricity 0.3% (2024)
- Nuclear electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Coal electricity 98.3% (2024)
- Cooking with wood or dung 40.0% (2014)
Technology
- Internet users 57.5% (2024)
- Mobile phone subscriptions 178.2 (2022)
- Home broadband 4.5 (2022)
- Satellites by owner 1 (2026)
- Homes with internet 55.1% (2016)
- Homes with a mobile phone 99.9% (2014)
Food and farming
- Hunger 24.0% (2023)
- Cereal yield 870 (2023)
- Farmland 45.6% (2023)
- Jobs in farming 18.0% (2025)
Government
- Electoral democracy 0.67 (2025)
- Human rights 0.85 (2025)
- Control of corruption +0.59 (2025)
- Women in parliament 9.0% (2025)
- Military spending 2.8% (2024)
- Clean government 67.3 (2022)