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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