Botswana

The Botswana , officially the Republic of Botswana (Tswana: Lefatshe Botswana ), is a landlocked country in the Southern Africa. The inhabitants are Batswana (Motswana in the singular). Formerly the British Protectorate called Bechuanaland, Bostwana adopted its name after its independence inside the the Commonwealth the September 30th 1966. It is frontier with the South Africa in the south and south-east, the Namibia in the west, the Zambia in north and the Zimbabwe in the North-East. Its capital is Gaborone. Its economy, majoritaiement related to its South-African neighbor, is majoritaiement dominated by the services (43% in share of the GNP in 1999), the mines (48%), the Industrie S (4%) and the Agriculture (5%).

History

See also: History of Botswana

Policy

See also: Political of Botswana

Subdivisions

See also: Subdivisions of Botswana

  • Center
  • Kweneng
  • Gaborone
  • Northern Ngwaketse
  • Kgatleng
  • Is
    • Southern
  • Is
  • Kgalagadi
  • Ghanzi
  • Chobé

Geography

See also: Geography of Botswana

Economy

See also: Economy of Botswana, List of companies botswanéennes

The Botswana could easily pass, on paper, for an economic model of success on the African continent : building its future on an administration democratic, stable, qualified and not very corrupted (Transparency International regularly classifies it like the country less corrupted of Africa), a careful management and, of course, a basement rich in Diamant S and minerals (Cuivre, Nickel) but also in coal and Pétrole. This country, which at the time of its independence in 1966 was one of twenty-five poorer of the world, is classified from now on among most prosperous of the continent. In fact, it is about the only country in the world which could post, at the time of the period 1970 - 2000, an average annual growth of almost 9  %; it is moreover the only country which has been able to leave the group of the the least advanced Pays, in 1984.

This theoretical richness is however threatened by a too great dependence of the economy with respect to the mining sector, as by the epidemic of AIDS which prevails in all the layers of the population (close to an adult on three would be infected). At all events, with its clashes and misfortunes, this large territory like the France, but thirty times less populated, remains in an enviable situation for many its neighbors.

Demography

See also: Demography of Botswana

  • Population: 1  812  547 inhabitants (in 2004). 0-14 years: 40,3  %; 15-64 years: 55,56  %; + 65 years: 4,14  %

  • Life expectancy of the men: 37 years (in 2001) (this estimate takes account of the prevalence of the vih which is of 30  % approximately)
  • Life expectancy of the women: 37 years (in 2001)
  • Growth rate of the population: 0,47  % (in 2001); 1,2  % between 2001 and 2005 ( sources)
  • Birth rate: 28,85  ‰ (in 2001),
  • Death rate: 24,18  ‰ (in 2001)
  • infantile Death rate: 63,2  ‰ (in 2001)
  • Fertility rate: 3,7 children/woman (in 2001)
  • Rate of migration: 0  ‰ (in 2001)

Culture

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Others

Surface: 581  730 km ²
Density: 3,12 hab./km²
Land borders: 4  013 km (South Africa 1  840 km; Namibia 1  360 km; Zimbabwe 813 km)
Littoral: 0 km
Ends of altitude: + 513 m > + 1  489 m
Independence: September 30th 1966 (old British colony)
Telephone lines: 86  000 (in 1997)
Cellphones: n.c.
Radios: 237  000 (in 1997)
Television stations: 31  000 (in 1997)
Users of Internet: 12  000 (in 2000)
Many suppliers of access Internet: 3 (in 2000)
Roads: 18  482 km (of which 4  343 km tarred) (in 1996)
Railways: 888 km (in 2000)
inland Waterways: 0 km
Many airports: 92 (including 11 with tarred tracks) (in 2000)

Codes

Botswana has as codes:

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