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Data and Statistics

The World Bank gathers and shares development data to improve understanding of the challenges facing each country. The following resources cover a range of social and economic measures of poverty and development.

Botswana: Quick Facts

For a complete list of indicators, refer to the Botswana Country Data Profile. Refer to the Africa Quick Query to customize and manage timeseries data on a wide range of topics.

World Bank Sources of Data

The World Bank gathers and shares development data to improve the understanding of the challenges facing each country. The following resources cover a range of social and economic measures of poverty and development.

Summary Data

	Millennium Development Goals for Botswana
	Botswana Country Data Profile
	Botswana-at-a-Glance

Data by Topic

	Information/ Communications/ Telecommunications(PDF): ICT infrastructure & access, Computers and the Internet, ICT expenditures, and ICT business & government environment.
	Gender Statistics: country data sheets showing summary gender indicators, basic demographic data, population dynamics, labor force structure, and education and health statistics. Gender site
	Health Nutrition Populations Statistics: hows summary indicators for health status, health determinants, and health finance.
	Education Statistics at a glance (PDF)
	Doing Business: Indicators of the cost of doing business by identifying specific regulations that enhance or constrain the business investment, productivity, and growth. Botswana Profile

Debt

	World Bank Debt Service: US Energy Infodebt service repayments for World Bank loans and/or credits.
	The Joint External Debt Hub (JEDH)—jointly developed by the Bank for International Settlements, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the World Bank (WB)—brings together external debt data and selected foreign assets from international creditor/market and national debtor sources.

Poverty Data

	Africa Household Survey Databank
	Africa Development Indicators 2007 (PDF): It contains over 1,000 indicators covering 53 African countries. ADI provides the most detailed collection of data on Africa from 1960 to 2006. Website
	World Development Indicators 2008: The 2008 WDI includes more than 800 indicators in over 80 tables organized in 6 sections: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global Links. Press release
	Main World Bank Data Site

Other Sources of Data on Botswana

African Development Bank

Statistics from the African Development Bank

The International Monetary Fund (IMF)

World Economic Outlook Databases: Source of the World Economic Outlook Reports. You can download macroeconomic data (GDP, Inflation, etc.) tables which list all countries, including Botswana.

United Nations Development Program (UNDP)

Human Development Index: Shows Botswana's ranking in the Human Development Report as well as a broad range of indicators from poverty to demographic trends to women's political participation, etc.

World Health Organization (WHO)

	Selected Health Indicators
	UNAIDS/WHO -- Epidemological Factsheets on Botswana: HIV/AIDS prevalence and related indicators.

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