The 2003 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency
of unemployment and
poverty. Unemployment officially is 21%, but unofficial estimates
place it closer to 40%. HIV/AIDS infection rates are the highest in
the world and threaten Botswana's impressive economic gains.
Long-term prospects are overshadowed by the prospects of a leveling
off in diamond mining production.
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $13.48 billion (2002 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
4.2% (2002 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $8,500 (2002 est.)
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 4% industry: 44% (including 36% mining) services: 52% (2001 est.)
Population below poverty line:
47%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
8.1% (2002 est.)
Labor force:
264,000 formal sector employees (2000)
Labor force - by occupation:
NA
Unemployment rate:
40% (official rate is 21%) (2001 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $2.3 billion
expenditures: $2.4 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA
(FY 01/02)
Industries:
diamonds, copper, nickel, salt, soda ash, potash; livestock
processing; textiles
Industrial production growth rate:
2.4% (2001 est.)
Electricity - production:
409.8 million kWh (2001)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 100% hydro: 0% other: 0% (2001) nuclear: 0%
Electricity - consumption:
1.564 billion kWh (2001)
Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2001)
Electricity - imports:
1.183 billion kWh (2001)
Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - consumption:
16,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - exports:
NA (2001)
Oil - imports:
NA (2001)
Agriculture - products:
livestock, sorghum, maize, millet, beans, sunflowers, groundnuts
Exports:
$2.4 billion f.o.b. (2002 est.)
Exports - commodities:
diamonds 90%, copper, nickel, soda ash, meat, textiles
Exports - partners:
European Free Trade Association (EFTA) 87%, Southern African
Customs Union (SACU) 7%, Zimbabwe 4% (2000)
Imports:
$1.9 billion f.o.b. (2002 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%
(2000)
Debt - external:
$360 million (2002)
Economic aid - recipient:
$73 million (1995)
Currency:
pula (BWP)
Currency code:
BWP
Exchange rates:
pulas per US dollar - 6.33 (2002), 5.84 (2001), 5.1 (2000), 4.62
(1999), 4.23 (1998)
Fiscal year:
1 April - 31 March
Communications Botswana
Telephones - main lines in use:
131,000 (September 2001)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
270,000 (September 2001)
Telephone system:
general assessment: the system is expanding with the growth of
mobile cellular service and participation in regional development
domestic: small system of open-wire lines, microwave radio relay
links, and a few radiotelephone communication stations; mobile
cellular service is growing fast
international: two international exchanges; digital microwave radio
relay links to Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa;
satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 8, FM 13, shortwave 4 (2001)
Radios:
252,720 (2000)
Television broadcast stations:
1 (2001)
Televisions:
31,000 (1997)
Internet country code:
.bw
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
11 (2001)
Internet users:
33,000 (2001)
Transportation Botswana
Railways: total: 888 km narrow gauge: 888 km 1.067-m gauge (2002)
Highways: total: 10,217 km paved: 5,619 km unpaved: 4,598 km (1999)
Waterways:
none
Ports and harbors:
none
Airports:
86 (2002)
Airports - with paved runways:
total: 10
2,438 to 3,047 m: 2
1,524 to 2,437 m: 7
914 to 1,523 m: 1 (2002)
Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 76
1,524 to 2,437 m: 3
914 to 1,523 m: 55
under 914 m: 18 (2002)
Military Botswana
Military branches:
Botswana Defense Force (including Army and Air Wing), Botswana
National Police
Military manpower - military age:
18 years of age (2003 est.)
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