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Botswana

2,562,122

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+40.98K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+52.7%from 1.68M
Life expectancy69.3 years2024
Fertility rate2.70births per woman · 2024
Urban population68.0%2025
RegionSub-Saharan Africa Upper middle income

A country at every age

How Botswana is shaped by age.

A younger population means schools, jobs, and future families will shape the decades ahead.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1432.0%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6464.0%Working-age population
Ages 65+4.1%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate24.4births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate5.7deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+18.6births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-5.67Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Botswana look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 3.44M in 2050—36.3% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 20242.52M
  2. 20503.44M
  3. 21003.84M
Median age in 205030.3years
Births in 205055.37Kduring the year
Deaths in 205025.26Kduring the year
Life expectancy72.6years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 1960516.17K
  2. 1970590.33K
  3. 1980937.49K
  4. 19901.31M
  5. 20001.68M
  6. 20102.03M
  7. 20202.37M
  8. 20252.56M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/19/2026

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