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🇧🇼 Botswana
Republic of Botswana
BWA BW P Botswana pula (BWP)
Every statistic we track for Botswana — 139 indicators, each with its latest value and world rank. Open the interactive profile →
$22,039
61.6 yrs
3.46
0.52
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📈 Economy
👥 Demographics
| Fertility Rate (WB) | 2.7 | #65/217 | 2024 |
| Gender Inequality Index | 0.5 | #44/172 | 2023 |
| Median Age | 23.7 | #175/235 | 2026 |
| Population | 2.1 | #145/229 | 2013 |
| Population | 2.6 | #136/191 | 2026 |
| Population Density | 4.6 | #223/235 | 2026 |
| Refugees by Country of Origin | 384 | #121/195 | 2025 |
| Urban Population | 67.5% | #96/213 | 2024 |
🌐 Connectivity
| Access to Electricity | 80.2% | #170/214 | 2024 |
| Get News from the Internet (Afrobarometer) | 37.6% | #22/39 | 2023 |
| Internet Users | 57.5% | #139/182 | 2024 |
| Mobile Subscriptions | 178.2 | #8/209 | 2022 |
| Read News Online | 37.6% | #42/75 | 2024 |
🫀 Health
🎓 Education
| Mean Years of Schooling | 10.6 | #55/146 | 2020 |
🌱 Environment
| CO₂ per Capita (WB) | 2.7 | #97/203 | 2024 |
| Energy Use per Person | 1,250 | #84/149 | 2023 |
| Environmental Performance Index | 49.2 | #66/179 | 2024 |
| Renewable Electricity | 0.3% | #185/195 | 2024 |
🏛️ Governance
📰 Media & news
| Press Freedom Index | 62.9 | #62/177 | 2026 |
🛡️ Safety
| Felt Unsafe in the Neighbourhood (Afrobarometer) | 51% | #20/39 | 2023 |
| Global Peace Index | 1.7 | #118/160 | 2025 |
| Homicide Rate | 9.4 | #52/204 | 2023 |
| Road Traffic Deaths | 16.5 | #62/195 | 2021 |
| Trust in the Police (Afrobarometer) | 47.7% | #17/39 | 2023 |
⚠️ Risk & resilience
| Climate Seen as a Threat | 83.9% | #85/142 | 2023 |
| Confident Can Protect Family | 17.9% | #132/142 | 2023 |
| Disaster Exposure (WRI) | 0.1 | #181/193 | 2026 |
| Experienced a Disaster | 30.6% | #53/142 | 2023 |
| Experienced Discrimination (Skin Colour) | 14.4% | #19/139 | 2023 |
| INFORM Risk Index | 3.3 | #110/191 | 2025 |
| Resilience to Risk (WRP) | 44.1 | #122/141 | 2023 |
| World Risk Index | 1.5 | #170/193 | 2026 |
| Worry About Violent Crime | 83% | #24/142 | 2023 |
😊 Wellbeing
| Happiness (Cantril Ladder) | 3.5 | #143/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Freedom | 0.9 | #91/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: GDP | 1.6 | #73/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Generosity | 0 | #145/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Healthy Life Expectancy | 0 | #145/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Low Corruption | 0.1 | #96/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Social Support | 1 | #111/147 | 2025 |
| Human Development Index | 0.7 | #111/193 | 2023 |
| Went Without a Cash Income (Afrobarometer) | 69% | #33/39 | 2023 |
| Went Without Enough Food (Afrobarometer) | 59.8% | #25/39 | 2023 |
🧭 Attitudes & values
| Attended a Demonstration | 13.6% | #55/151 | 2017 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Effective | 85.2% | #57/143 | 2018 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Safe | 79.4% | #66/143 | 2018 |
| China’s Influence Seen as Positive (Afrobarometer) | 59.3% | #27/39 | 2023 |
| Country Going in the Right Direction (Afrobarometer) | 24.1% | #27/39 | 2023 |
| Trade Union Membership | 14.6% | #42/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in Fellow Citizens (Afrobarometer) | 36.6% | #36/39 | 2023 |
| Trust in parliament | 5.5 | #33/151 | 2017 |
| Trust in Science | 46.7% | #140/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in Scientists | 42.6% | #133/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in the legal system | 6.2 | #19/153 | 2017 |
| US Influence Seen as Positive (Afrobarometer) | 61.9% | #25/39 | 2023 |
Latest available period per indicator. The rank counts down from the highest value, whatever that means for the series: on child mortality or extreme poverty the country at #1 is the worst in the world, not the best. Sources are credited on each indicator page.