The 2010 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

(official exchange rate):

      $12.5 billion (2010 est.)

      GDP - real growth rate:

      3.1% (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 118 −5.4% (2009 est.)

      2.9% (2008 est.)

      GDP - per capita (PPP):

      $13,100 (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 88 $12,900 (2009 est.)

      $13,900 (2008 est.)

      note: data are in 2010 US dollars

      GDP - composition by sector:

      agriculture: 2.3%

      industry: 45.8%

      services: 51.9% (2009 est.)

      Labor force:

      685,300 formal sector employees (2007) country comparison to the world: 151

      Labor force - by occupation:

      agriculture: NA%

      industry: NA%

      services: NA%

      Unemployment rate:

      7.5% (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 77

      Population below poverty line:

      30.3% (2003)

      Household income or consumption by percentage share:

      lowest 10%: NA%

      highest 10%: NA%

      Distribution of family income - Gini index:

      63 (1993) country comparison to the world: 4

      Investment (gross fixed):

      28.2% of GDP (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 24

      Public debt:

      22.6% of GDP (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 106 18.6% of GDP (2009 est.)

      Inflation rate (consumer prices):

      7.1% (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 179 8.1% (2009 est.)

      Central bank discount rate:

      10% (31 December 2009) country comparison to the world: 19 15% (31 December 2008)

      Commercial bank prime lending rate:

      13.76% (31 December 2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 35 16.54% (31 December 2008 est.)

      Stock of narrow money:

      $1.146 billion (31 December 2010 est) country comparison to the world: 136 $939.1 million (31 December 2009 est)

      Stock of broad money:

      $6.679 billion (31 December 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 113 $5.357 billion (31 December 2009 est.)

      Stock of domestic credit:

      $1.361 billion (31 December 2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 139 $2.06 billion (31 December 2007 est.)

      Market value of publicly traded shares:

      $3.991 billion (31 December 2009) country comparison to the world: 86 $3.556 billion (31 December 2008)

      $5.887 billion (31 December 2007)

      Agriculture - products:

      livestock, sorghum, maize, millet, beans, sunflowers, groundnuts

      Industries:

      diamonds, copper, nickel, salt, soda ash, potash, coal, iron ore, silver; livestock processing; textiles

      Industrial production growth rate:

      6.9% (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 43

      Electricity - production:

      1.052 billion kWh (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 143

      Electricity - consumption:

      2.648 billion kWh (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 130

      Electricity - exports:

      0 kWh (2008 est.)

      Electricity - imports:

      2.181 billion kWh (2008 est.)

      Oil - production:

      0 bbl/day (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 119

      Oil - consumption:

      15,000 bbl/day (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 137

      Oil - exports:

      0 bbl/day (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 207

      Oil - imports:

      15,180 bbl/day (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 123

      Oil - proved reserves:

      0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 198

      Natural gas - production:

      0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 201

      Natural gas - consumption:

      0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 114

      Natural gas - exports:

      0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 51

      Natural gas - imports:

      0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 78

      Natural gas - proved reserves:

      0 cu m (1 January 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 199

      Current account balance:

      -$552 million (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 118 -$762 million (2009 est.)

      Exports:

      $4.419 billion (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 112 $3.385 billion (2009 est.)

      Exports - commodities:

      diamonds, copper, nickel, soda ash, meat, textiles

      Imports:

      $4.518 billion (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 122 $4.243 billion (2009 est.)

      Imports - commodities:

      foodstuffs, machinery, electrical goods, transport equipment, textiles, fuel and petroleum products, wood and paper products, metal and metal products

      Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

      $7.834 billion (31 December 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 58 $8.704 billion (31 December 2009 est.)

      Debt - external:

      $2.222 billion (31 December 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 137 $1.681 billion (31 December 2009 est.)

      Exchange rates:

      pulas (BWP) per US dollar - 6.7413 (2010), 7.1602 (2009), 6.7907 (2008), 6.2035 (2007), 5.8447 (2006)

      Communications ::Botswana

      Telephones - main lines in use:

      144,200 (2009) country comparison to the world: 133

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

      1.874 million (2009) country comparison to the world: 136

      Telephone system:

      general assessment: Botswana is participating in regional development efforts; expanding fully digital system with fiber-optic cables linking the major population centers in the east as well as a system of open-wire lines, microwave radio relays links, and radiotelephone communication stations

      domestic: fixed-line