Botswana
Botswana in numbers — 19 World Bank indicators, each linking to its complete year-by-year history.
Botswana recorded GDP per capita: 7,778 (2025), ranking 116 of 212 worldwide; Population: 2.56 million (2025), ranking 143 of 217 worldwide; Life expectancy: 69.3 (2024), ranking 158 of 217 worldwide; Inflation: 2.66% (2025), ranking 102 of 187 worldwide. The year in brackets is the reference year for that figure.
Measured across each series' full span, GDP shows the largest increase (+65430%) and GDP growth the largest decrease (-112%). Every indicator below links to its complete year-by-year series.
Across the measures below it sits below the world median on slightly more than half. Measured against the median of every economy covered here, 7 of 19 comparable series are higher and 12 are lower.
Its population of 2.56 million (2025) makes it a smaller population by the standards of this dataset.
18 of 19 series on this page carry a value for 2023 or later; the remaining 1 end earlier because the underlying collection is less frequent.
Indicators
| Indicator | Latest | Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| GDP | 19,928,479,839.45 | 2025 | +65429.6% |
| GDP per capita | 7,778.12 | 2025 | +13101.6% |
| GDP growth | -0.73% | 2025 | -111.6% |
| Population | 2,562,122 | 2025 | +396.4% |
| Population growth | 1.61% | 2025 | -28.5% |
| Urban population | 67.96% | 2025 | +2163.8% |
| Inflation | 2.66% | 2025 | -77.8% |
| Life expectancy | 69.29 | 2024 | +35.3% |
| Infant mortality | 32.1 | 2024 | -72.8% |
| CO2 per capita | 2.74 | 2024 | +952.1% |
| GDP (PPP) | 53,030,571,759.46 | 2025 | +565.4% |
| GDP per capita (PPP) | 20,697.91 | 2025 | +239.1% |
| Labor participation | 68.8% | 2025 | +9.9% |
| Unemployment | 24.48% | 2025 | +77.1% |
| Electricity access | 80.2% | 2024 | +694.1% |
| Internet users | 57.46% | 2024 | — |
| Forest area | 26.29% | 2023 | -20.8% |
| Education spending | 8.06% | 2020 | +83.7% |
| Health spending | 6.26% | 2023 | +2.4% |