Country comparison: Brazil / Botswana

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Brazil and Botswana. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	Brazil	Botswana
Region:	South America	Southern Africa
Area:	8,515,770 km²	581,730 km²
National language:	Portuguese	English
Government form:	Federal presidential republic	Parliamentary republic
Independent since:	1822 AD	1966 AD
Capital:	Brasilia	Gaborone

Population

Details for Brazil and Botswana

	Brazil	Botswana
Population:	214,326,000	2,588,000
Inhabitants/km²:	25.2	4.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 71 years	Ø 63 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 77 years	Ø 68 years
Average age:	Ø 33.2 years	Ø 25.7 years
Birth rate:	13.08 ‰	24.20 ‰
Death rate:	7.42 ‰	6.95 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.19 ‰	2.77 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Brazil	Botswana
Political stability:	46	64
Civil rights:	44	66
Health:	59	30
Climate:	65	84
Cost of Living:	41	57
Popularity:	31	50

Economy

Details for Brazil and Botswana

	Brazil	Botswana
Currency:	Brazilian real (1 BRL = 100 Centavos)	pula (1 BWP =100 Thebe)
Unemployment rate:	9.5 %	20.7 %
Inflation rate:	9.28 %	11.67 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	49.77 %	44.25 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	65.10 %	25.10 %
Average income:	7,740 US$	6,430 US$
Corruption index:	62 (bad)	40 (moderate)

	BRA: total	per 1000 inh.	BWA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,608,981 M US$	7.51 M US$	17,615 M US$	6.81 M US$
Gross national product:	1,658,600 M US$	7.74 M US$	16,635 M US$	6.43 M US$
Exported goods:	379,783 M US$	1.77 M US$	7,931 M US$	3.06 M US$
Imported goods:	375,639 M US$	1.75 M US$	9,277 M US$	3.58 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Brazil and Botswana

	BRA: total	per 1000 inh.	BWA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	2,000,000 km	9.33 km	31,747 km	12.26 km
Railways:	29,850 km	0.14 km	888 km	0.34 km
Passenger airports:	116	0.0005	10	0.0039

Energy balance

Details for Brazil and Botswana

	BRA: total	per 1000 inh.	BWA: total	per 1000 inh.
Production capacity:	1.709 tn kWh	7.97 m kWh	6.71 bn kWh	2.59 m kWh
Energy consumption:	541.00 bn kWh	2.52 m kWh	3.52 bn kWh	1.36 m kWh
Energy production:	622.01 bn kWh	2.90 m kWh	3.05 bn kWh	1.18 m kWh
Energy export:	395.00 m kWh	1,842.98 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
Energy imports:	25.11 bn kWh	117,171.85 kWh	1.10 bn kWh	425,355.52 kWh
CO2 emissions:	434.30 m t	2,026.34 t	7.25 m t	2,801.90 t

Telecommunication

Details for Brazil and Botswana

	Brazil	Botswana
International dialing:	+55	+267
Internet domain:	.br	.bw

	BRA total	BRA per 1000 inh.	BWA total	BWA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	28,883,475	135	132,457	51
Mobile cellulars:	219,660,524	1025	4,160,553	1607
Internet server:	26,577,000	124	1,806	1
Internet users:	174,338,723	813	1,656,591	640
Broadband Internet:	41,657,433	194	203,020	78

Healthcare system

Details for Brazil and Botswana

	Brazil	Botswana
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	2.09	1.80
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	2.15	0.37
Diabetes:	10.4 %	5.8 %
Malaria:	5.1 %	0.6 %
HIV:	0.39 %	6.03 %
Tuberculosis:	0.48 ‰	2.35 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	67.0 %	78.0 %
Smokers:	12.8 %	19.4 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Brazil and Botswana

	Brazil	Botswana
Daytime temperatures:	30.6 °C	28.6 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	20.8 °C	12.9 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	49 %
Rain days:	8.8	3.7
Sunshine hours per day:	6.6	9.3

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
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Native languages

	Brazil	Botswana
Portuguese:	93.2 %	n/a
Tswana:	n/a	78.2 %
Kalanga:	n/a	7.9 %
San:	n/a	3.5 %
Sekgalagadi:	n/a	2.8 %
Khoekhoe:	n/a	2.5 %
English:	n/a	2.1 %
Ndebele:	n/a	1.3 %
German:	0.5 %	n/a
Italian:	0.3 %	n/a
Japanese:	0.2 %	n/a
Quechua:	0.1 %	n/a
other:	5.7 %	1.7 %

Religions

	Brazil	Botswana
Christianity:	87.5 %	71.6 %
Nondenominational:	8.0 %	20.6 %
Badimo:	n/a	6.0 %
Spiritualism:	2.2 %	n/a
other:	2.3 %	1.8 %

Data inventory and updates

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