Geographic Statistics:
Population: 1,576,470
Independence: 30 September 1966 (from UK)
Capital: Gabarone
Shared Borders: Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa.
Highest Elevation: Tsodilo Hills; 1,489 m.
Lowest Elevation: junction of the Limpopo and Shashe Rivers; 513m.
Environmental Statistics:
Climate: Semiarid; warm winters and hot summers.
Terrain: predominantly flat to gently rolling tableland; Kalahari
Desert in southwest.
Average Rainfall:
Temperature Extremes:
Population Statistics:
Main Languages: English (official), Setswana, Tribal Languages.
Population growth rate: 0.76% (2000 est.)
Birth rate: 29.63 births/1,000 population (2000 est.)
Death rate:22.08 deaths/1,000 population (2000 est.)
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 39.27 years
male: 38.63 years
female: 39.93 years (2000 est.)
Total fertility rate: 3.8 children born/woman (2000 est.)
Literacy: (People age 15 and over that can read and write)
total population: 69.8%
male: 80.5% %
female: 59.9%
Economic Statistics:
Currency: Pula; 1 Pula (P) = 100 thebe.
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity: $3,900 (1999 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 7.7% (1998 est.)
Unemployment rate: 20%-40%
Telephones - main lines in use: 78,000 (2000)
Telephones - mobile cellular: N/A
