Life expectancy
69.3 · 2024
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Botswana
$7,696GDP per capita · 2024
Long-run GDP per capita
Real GDP per capita in 2011 international dollars, 1950–2022. Maddison Project Database 2023.
Economic events
Crises and shocks, also marked on the chart above.
- 1873–1879Long Depression
- 1918–1920Influenza pandemic
- 1929–1939Great Depression
- 1973–19741973 oil crisis
- 19791979 oil crisis
- 1997–1998Asian financial crisis
- 2000–2002Dot-com crash
- 2008–2009Global financial crisis
- 2010–2012European sovereign-debt crisis
- 2020–2021COVID-19 pandemic
- 2022Global inflation surge
Demographics
Population
2.5M · 2024
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Population growth
1.6% · 2024
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Urban population
67.5% · 2024
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Environment
CO₂ per capita
2.7 · 2024
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External
Current account balance
-4.2% · 2024
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Current account balance (IMF)
3.7% · 2025
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Government
Central government debt
19.6% · 2020
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Government gross debt
38.6% · 2025
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Labour
Unemployment
24.5% · 2025
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Unemployment rate (IMF)
No data
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Output & growth
GDP
$19.4B · 2024
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GDP (IMF)
$19.5B · 2025
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GDP (PPP)
Int’l$ 52.9B · 2025
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GDP growth
-3.0% · 2024
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GDP per capita
$7,696 · 2024
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GDP per capita (IMF)
$7,662 · 2025
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GNI per capita
$7,750 · 2024
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Real GDP growth
-0.9% · 2025
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Prices
Inflation (CPI)
2.8% · 2024
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Inflation (avg CPI)
2.8% · 2025
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Society
Income inequality (Gini)
54.9 · 2015
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Internet users
57.5% · 2024
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Trade
Exports
27.4% · 2024
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Imports
43.7% · 2024
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Trade
71.1% · 2024
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