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IndicatorBWABotswanaSub-Saharan Africa
Governance
Civil liberties index (V-Dem)0-10.85rank #43
Control of Corruption0-100 percentile60.6rank #52
Deliberative democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.35rank #78
Egalitarian democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.48rank #52
Freedom of expression index (V-Dem)0-10.8rank #55
Government Effectiveness0-100 percentile59.4rank #70
Human rights index (V-Dem)0-10.85rank #43
Military spending% GDP2.8%rank #28
Participatory democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.37rank #63
Political Stability & Absence of Violence0-100 percentile83.5rank #33
Regulatory Quality0-100 percentile61.2rank #63
Rule of Law0-100 percentile62.3rank #81
Rule of law index (V-Dem)0-10.82rank #40
V-Dem electoral democracy0-10.67rank #48
V-Dem liberal democracy0-10.52rank #56
Voice & Accountability0-100 percentile62rank #82
Women in parliament% seats9%rank #155
Women's political empowerment index (V-Dem)0-10.7rank #91
Economy
Agricultural employment% employment18%rank #81
Agriculture value added% GDP1.8%rank #129
Annual working hours per workerhours2,258.1rank #22
Capital stock per worker2017 US$ per worker191,506rank #72
Current account balance% GDP-4.3%rank #117
Employment-to-population ratio%52.1%rank #129
External debt stocks% GNI11.9%rank #6
FDI net inflows% GDP2.4%rank #99
GDPcurrent US$19.93Brank #131
GDP growth%-0.73%rank #179
GDP per capita (nominal)current US$7,778.1rank #95
GDP per capita, PPP2021 intl $17,687.2rank #92
GNI per capita (PPP)2021 intl $16,983.8rank #91
Government expenditure% GDP26.5%rank #1
Gross capital formation% GDP29.2%rank #27
Gross savings% GDP32%rank #28
High-technology exports% manuf. exports0.54%rank #146
Human capital indexindex2.9rank #59
Industry value added% GDP27.9%rank #55
Inflation%2.7%rank #79
Labour force participation rate%69.3%rank #31
Personal remittances received% GDP0.67%rank #116
R&D expenditure% GDP0.56%rank #52
Researchers in R&Dper million179.8rank #68
Tax revenue% GDP22.4%rank #26
Total factor productivity (current PPPs, USA=1)index (USA=1)0.64rank #63
Trade openness% GDP69.5%rank #81
Unemployment% labor force24.5%rank #178
Unemployment rate (ILO modelled)%24.8%rank #178
Vulnerable employment% employment25.6%rank #86
Youth unemployment% ages 15-2446%rank #177
Youth unemployment rate (ILO modelled)% ages 15-2445.9%rank #177
Health
Basic drinking water access% pop91.8%rank #111
Basic sanitation access% pop72.1%rank #127
Child mortalityper 1003.3rank #105
Daily caloric supply per capitakcal2,713.9rank #125
DTP3 immunization coverage%95%rank #5
Health spending% GDP6.3%rank #98
Infant mortalityper 1k births32.1rank #111
Life expectancyyears69.3rank #158
Maternal mortalityper 100k155rank #73
Measles immunization% children97%rank #3
Measles (MCV1) immunization coverage%97%rank #3
Physiciansper 1k0.38rank #42
PM2.5 air pollution exposureug/m313.2rank #67
Road traffic deathsper 100k26.4rank #105
Smoking prevalence% adults18%rank #60
Suicide mortality rateper 100k8.4rank #106
Tuberculosis incidenceper 100k143rank #108
Under-5 mortality rateper 1k births33.3rank #142
Undernourishment% pop24%rank #67
Education
Adult literacy%81.2%rank #6
Education spending% GDP8.1%rank #11
Expected years of schoolingyears11.4rank #149
Mean years of schoolingyears10.5rank #81
Primary completion rate% relevant age101.5%rank #24
Primary enrollment% gross109.3%rank #24
Secondary enrollment% gross70.6%rank #121
Tertiary enrollment% gross21.4%rank #74
Demography
Crude birth rateper 1,00024.4rank #54
Fertility ratebirths/woman2.7rank #65
Median age of populationyears22.9rank #156
Net migration rateper 1,000-2.6rank #165
Populationpeople2.56Mrank #143
Population growth%1.6%rank #66
Projected life expectancy in 2050 (medium)years72.6rank #165
Projected population in 2050 (medium)thousands3,437.4rank #138
Total age dependency ratioper 100 working-age56.9rank #94
Urban population%68%rank #87
Climate
CO₂ emissionst7.46Mrank #121
CO₂ per capitat3rank #105
Electricity access% pop80.2%rank #39
Electricity from coal% generation98.3%rank #81
Electricity from hydro% generation0%rank #144
Electricity from solar% generation0.29%rank #146
Electricity from wind% generation0%rank #104
Electric power consumptionkWh per capita1,641rank #92
Forest area% land26.3%rank #115
GHG emissions per capitatCO2e per capita9.5rank #155
Power-sector CO2 intensitygCO2/kWh851.3rank #184
Renewable electricity%0.29%rank #175
Renewable energy share%27.4%rank #79
Total GHG emissions incl. LULUCFMtCO2e23.7rank #74
Society
Asylum seekerspeople789rank #70
Extreme poverty% pop21.4%rank #41
Female labor participation%63.7%rank #25
Fixed broadband subscriptionsper 1007.4rank #104
Gender Development Indexratio1rank #27
Gender Inequality Index0-10.49rank #114
Gini indexindex54.9rank #69
Homicide rateper 100k11.4rank #90
Human Development Index0-10.73rank #87
Inequality-adjusted HDI0-10.51rank #93
Internet users% pop57.5%rank #137
Life satisfaction0-103.5rank #140
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI0-10.7rank #53
Poverty gap at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0.02rank #145
Poverty headcount at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0.08rank #108
Poverty headcount at $3.65/dayproportion (0-1)0.26rank #140
Poverty headcount at $6.85/dayproportion (0-1)0.53rank #152
Refugees hosted (by country of asylum)people847rank #128
Refugees originating (by country of origin)people384rank #57
Youth NEET rate%38.4%rank #174
Risk
Deaths in armed conflictsdeaths0rank #1
Hazard & exposure0-101.5rank #10
Human hazard & exposure0-100.7rank #8
INFORM risk score0-103.3rank #22
Lack of coping capacity0-105.1rank #42
Lack of infrastructure coping capacity0-103.8rank #34
Lack of institutional coping capacity0-106.2rank #41
Natural hazard & exposure0-102.2rank #9
Organized-violence deaths (total)deaths/year1rank #1
Socio-economic vulnerability0-104.9rank #48
Vulnerability0-104.5rank #34
Vulnerable groups0-104.1rank #36
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