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Botswana — GDP per capita (PPP)
GDP per Capita (PPP) for Botswana, 1990–2025.
Latest value · 2025
20,698
GDP per Capita (PPP) · current international $ · +239.1% since 1990
GDP per capita (PPP) for Botswana was 20,698 in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 36 years, from 1990 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 21,029 in 2023. The lowest was 6,104 in 1990 (about 3.4× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 3.55% per year.
Botswana ranks 104 of 201 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 52%. The median for Sub-Saharan Africa is 4,379, so Botswana sits above it. It peaked in 2023 and has fallen 2% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved up 46%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
20,698
First (1990)
6,104
Change
+239.1%
Highest
21,029
in 2023
Lowest
6,104
in 1990
Average
12,470
Annual growth (CAGR)
3.55%
Years of data
36
Recent years
| Year | current international $ |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 20,697.91 |
| 2024 | 20,612.48 |
| 2023 | 21,029.42 |
| 2022 | 19,973.67 |
| 2021 | 17,960.63 |
| 2020 | 15,292.26 |
| 2019 | 15,960.02 |
| 2018 | 15,785.82 |
| 2017 | 15,700.67 |
| 2016 | 16,228.12 |
| 2015 | 14,143.69 |
| 2014 | 15,003.32 |
Reading this correctly. GDP per capita adjusted for purchasing power parity. More meaningful than the nominal figure when comparing actual living standards across countries with very different price levels. Figures are in current international $. Comparing this series with a different measure of the same concept (for example a nominal figure against a purchasing-power-parity figure) will give misleading results.
Related data
Source. World Bank Open Data, indicator
NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD — GDP per Capita (PPP). Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as published; this page computes the summary statistics (change, CAGR, extremes) from the underlying annual series. View the original dataset on data.worldbank.org.