The 2005 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

3.5% (2004 est.)

      GDP - per capita:

       purchasing power parity - $9,200 (2004 est.)

      GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 4% industry: 44% (including 36% mining) services: 52% (2003 est.)

      Labor force:

       264,000 formal sector employees (2000)

      Labor force - by occupation:

       NA

      Unemployment rate:

       23.8% (2004 est.)

      Population below poverty line:

       47% (2002 est.)

      Household income or consumption by percentage share:

       lowest 10%: NA

       highest 10%: NA

      Inflation rate (consumer prices):

       7% (2004 est.)

      Investment (gross fixed):

       25.5% of GDP (2004 est.)

      Budget:

       revenues: $3.735 billion

       expenditures: $3.743 billion, including capital expenditures of NA

       (2004 est.)

      Public debt:

       8.6% of GDP (2004 est.)

      Agriculture - products:

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

      Industries:

       diamonds, copper, nickel, salt, soda ash, potash; livestock

       processing; textiles

      Industrial production growth rate:

       4.4% (2004 est.)

      Electricity - production:

       930 million kWh (2002)

      Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 100% hydro: 0% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (2001)

      Electricity - consumption:

       1.89 billion kWh (2002)

      Electricity - exports:

       0 kWh (2002)

      Electricity - imports:

       1.025 billion kWh (2002)

      Oil - production:

       0 bbl/day (2001 est.)

      Oil - consumption:

       16,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

      Oil - exports:

       NA

      Oil - imports:

       NA

      Current account balance:

       $337 million (2004 est.)

      Exports:

       $2.94 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

      Exports - commodities:

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

      Exports - partners:

       European Free Trade Association (EFTA) 87%, Southern African

       Customs Union (SACU) 7%, Zimbabwe 4% (2000)

      Imports:

       $2.255 billion f.o.b. (2004 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)

      Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

       $5.7 billion (2004 est.)

      Debt - external:

       $531 million (2004 est.)

      Economic aid - recipient:

       $73 million (1995)

      Currency (code):

       pula (BWP)

      Currency code:

       BWP

      Exchange rates:

       pulas per US dollar - 4.6929 (2004), 4.9499 (2003), 6.3278 (2002),

       5.8412 (2001), 5.1018 (2000)

      Fiscal year:

       1 April - 31 March

      Communications Botswana

      Telephones - main lines in use:

       142,400 (2002)

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

       435,000 (2002)

      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: country code - 267; 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 hosts:

       1,920 (2003)

      Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

       11 (2001)

      Internet users:

       60,000 (2002)

      Transportation Botswana

      Railways: total: 888 km narrow gauge: 888 km 1.067-m gauge (2004)

      Highways: total: 10,217 km paved: 5,619 km unpaved: 4,598 km (1999)

      Airports: 85 (2004 est.)

      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 (2004 est.)

      Airports - with unpaved runways:

       total: 75

       1,524 to 2,437 m: 3

       914 to 1,523 m: 54

       under 914 m: 18 (2004 est.)

      Military Botswana

      Military branches:

       Botswana Defense Force (includes an Air Wing)

      Military service age and obligation: 18 is the apparent age of voluntary military service; the official qualifications for determining minimum age are unknown (2001)

      Manpower available for military service:

       males age 18–49: 350,649 (2005 est.)

      Manpower fit for military service:

       males age 18–49: 136,322 (2005 est.)

      Manpower