🇧🇼Botswana

Gaborone

Africa

Upper middle income

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Population

2.6M

1.6%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

2.70

births/woman

Life Expectancy

69.3y

GDP / capita

$7.8K

Pop. Growth

1.61%

Net Migration

-5.7K

Population over time

Total population · observed (solid) and UN medium projection to 2100 (dashed)

Source: World Bank · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Fertility rate over time

Births per woman · dashed line = replacement (2.1)

Source: World Bank

Where immigrants come from

Largest foreign-born communities in Botswana by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇿🇼Zimbabwe67.9K(62.3%)

+23%

🇿🇦South Africa6.1K(5.6%)

+23%

🇮🇳

Population projections to 2100

Official UN projections — Low / Medium / High variants

Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024

Population pyramid (2025)

Age & sex structure · share of total population by 5-year cohort

Male1.3MTotal 2.6M1.3MFemale

Source: birthrate.io model

GDP per capita over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Life expectancy over time

Years at birth

Source: World Bank

Society, housing & beliefs

Family, crime, housing and religion indicators

Homicide rate

11.4

per 100,000

Divorce rate

—

per 1,000

Births outside marriage

—

of births

Home ownership

—

of households

Homicide rate over time

Intentional homicides per 100,000 people

Source: World Bank / UNODC

GDP over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Net migration over time

Net migrants per year (immigrants − emigrants)

Source: World Bank

Foreign-born population over time

Immigrant / diaspora population living in the country

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

Foreign-born share over time

Foreign-born residents as % of the population

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

🇨🇳China5K(4.6%)

+23%

🇿🇲Zambia4.7K(4.3%)

+23%

🇲🇼Malawi1.6K(1.4%)

+22%

🇬🇧United Kingdom1.4K(1.3%)

+23%

🇳🇬Nigeria1.3K(1.2%)

+22%

🇰🇪Kenya1.3K(1.2%)

+22%

🇨🇩Congo, Dem. Rep.1.2K(1.1%)

+23%

🇳🇦Namibia1K(1.0%)

+22%

🇱🇰Sri Lanka1K(1.0%)

+22%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024

Where the Botswana diaspora lives

Top destinations for people born in Botswana who now live abroad (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇿🇦South Africa8K(47.8%)

−38%

🇿🇼Zimbabwe4K(23.8%)

+8%

🇦🇺Australia1.7K(10.4%)

+55%

🇿🇲Zambia1.5K(9.0%)

+63%

🇳🇦Namibia731(4.4%)

+11%

🇱🇸Lesotho247(1.5%)

+133%

🇹🇿Tanzania136(0.8%)

+0%

🇳🇴Norway131(0.8%)

+19%

🇩🇰Denmark79(0.5%)

+18%

🇬🇳Guinea44(0.3%)

🇸🇿Eswatini39(0.2%)

−28%

🇧🇬Bulgaria36(0.2%)

+38%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024