Country comparison: Botswana / Germany

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Botswana and Germany. For further information and explanations, we provide many details per country that go far beyond this comparison. For example, there are separate sub-pages for both countries on economy, climate, energy, refugees, inflation, population and much more.
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General information

	Botswana	Germany
Region:	Southern Africa	Western Europe
Area:	581,730 km²	357,580 km²
Official language:	English	German
Government form:	Parliamentary republic	Federal parliamentary republic
Independent since:	1966 AD	1991 AD
Capital:	Gaborone	Berlin

Population

Details for Botswana and Germany

	Botswana	Germany
Population:	2,397,000	83,129,000
Inhabitants/km²:	4.1	232.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 67 years	Ø 79 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 73 years	Ø 83 years
Average age:	Ø 25.7 years	Ø 47.8 years
Birthrate:	23.65 ‰	9.30 ‰
Deathrate:	5.72 ‰	11.90 ‰
Migrationrate:	2.81 ‰	1.78 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Botswana	Germany
Political stability:	62	84
Civil rights:	64	95
Health:	41	96
Climate:	84	21
Cost of Living:	58	44
Popularity:	51	42

Economy

Details for Botswana and Germany

	Botswana	Germany
Currency:	pula (1 BWP = 100 Thebe)	euro (1 EUR =100 Cent)
Unemployment rate:	24.7 %	3.5 %
Inflation rate:	7.24 %	3.14 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	47.39 %	92.29 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	25.10 %	48.80 %
Average income:	6,940 US$	51,040 US$
Corruption index:	45 (moderate)	20 (good)

	BWA: total	per 1000 inh.	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	17,614 M US$	7.35 M US$	4,223,116 M US$	50.80 M US$
Gross national product:	16,635 M US$	6.94 M US$	4,242,859 M US$	51.04 M US$
Exported goods:	4,687 M US$	1.95 M US$	2,003,462 M US$	24.10 M US$
Imported goods:	7,349 M US$	3.07 M US$	1,774,553 M US$	21.35 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Botswana and Germany

	BWA: total	per 1000 inh.	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	31,747 km	13.24 km	625,000 km	7.52 km
Railways:	888 km	0.37 km	33,422 km	0.40 km
Passenger airports:	10	0.0042	37	0.0004

Energy balance

Details for Botswana and Germany

	BWA: total	per 1000 inh.	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	3.64 bn kWh	1.52 m kWh	536.50 bn kWh	6.45 m kWh
Energy production:	2.53 bn kWh	1.05 m kWh	612.80 bn kWh	7.37 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	78.86 bn kWh	948,642.83 kWh
Energy imports:	1.67 bn kWh	697,885.90 kWh	28.34 bn kWh	340,914.76 kWh
CO2 emissions:	7.25 m t	3,024.31 t	657.40 m t	7,908.16 t

Telecommunication

Details for Botswana and Germany

	Botswana	Germany
International dialing:	+267	+49
Internet domain:	.bw	.de

	BWA total	BWA per 1000 inh.	DEU total	DEU per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	140,003	58	38,300,000	461
Mobile cellulars:	3,829,408	1597	107,400,000	1292
Internet server:	1,806	1	20,043,000	241
Internet users:	1,534,234	640	74,660,856	898
Broadband Internet:	259,525	108	36,215,303	436

Healthcare system

Details for Botswana and Germany

	Botswana	Germany
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	1.80	8.00
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.37	4.21
Diabetes:	5.8 %	10.4 %
HIV:	6.03 %	0.06 %
Tuberculosis:	2.36 ‰	0.06 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	72.0 %	69.0 %
Smokers:	19.4 %	22.0 %

Climate

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

	Botswana	Germany
Daytime temperatures:	28.6 °C	13.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	12.9 °C	5.5 °C
Rel. humidity:	49 %	79 %
Rain days:	3.7	9.8
Sunshine hours per day:	9.3	4.7

Native languages

	Botswana	Germany
German:	n/a	90.1 %
Tswana:	78.2 %	n/a
Kalanga:	7.9 %	n/a
Russian:	n/a	3.6 %
San:	3.5 %	n/a
Sekgalagadi:	2.8 %	n/a
Turkish:	n/a	2.6 %
Khoekhoe:	2.5 %	n/a
English:	2.1 %	n/a
South Slavic languages:	n/a	1.4 %
Ndebele:	1.3 %	n/a
Italian:	n/a	0.7 %
Greek:	n/a	0.4 %
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
other:	1.7 %	0.9 %

Religions

	Botswana	Germany
Christianity:	71.6 %	58.5 %
Nondenominational:	20.6 %	31.0 %
Badimo:	6.0 %	n/a
Islam:	n/a	4.7 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.3 %
Yazidism:	n/a	0.3 %
Hinduism:	n/a	0.1 %
Jewry:	n/a	0.1 %
other:	1.8 %	5.1 %

Data inventory and updates

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