Country comparison: Botswana / United States of America

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

General information

	Botswana	United States
Region:	Southern Africa	North America
Area:	581,730 km²	9,831,510 km²
National language:	English	English
Government form:	Parliamentary republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1966 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Gaborone	Washington, D.C.

Population

Details for Botswana and the United States

	Botswana	United States
Population:	2,588,000	331,894,000
Inhabitants/km²:	4.4	33.8
Life expectancy males:	Ø 59 years	Ø 74 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 64 years	Ø 79 years
Average age:	Ø 25.7 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birth rate:	23.58 ‰	11.00 ‰
Death rate:	9.46 ‰	10.40 ‰
Migrationrate:	2.77 ‰	3.01 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Botswana	United States
Political stability:	64	67
Civil rights:	66	83
Health:	20	69
Climate:	84	66
Cost of Living:	55	34
Popularity:	50	71

Economy

Details for Botswana and the United States

	Botswana	United States
Currency:	pula (1 BWP = 100 Thebe)	US dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	20.7 %	3.6 %
Inflation rate:	11.67 %	8.00 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	44.25 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	25.10 %	36.60 %
Average income:	6,430 US$	70,930 US$
Government debt (% of GDP):	20.16 %	115.28 %
Corruption index:	40 (moderate)	31 (moderate)

	BWA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	17,615 M US$	6.81 M US$	23,315,081 M US$	70.25 M US$
Gross national product:	16,635 M US$	6.43 M US$	23,539,918 M US$	70.93 M US$
Exported goods:	7,931 M US$	3.06 M US$	2,556,638 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	9,277 M US$	3.58 M US$	3,401,688 M US$	10.25 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Botswana and the United States

	BWA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	31,747 km	12.26 km	6,586,610 km	19.85 km
Railways:	888 km	0.34 km	293,564 km	0.88 km
Passenger airports:	10	0.0039	436	0.0013

Energy balance

Details for Botswana and the United States

	BWA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Production capacity:	6.71 bn kWh	2.59 m kWh	10.015 tn kWh	30.18 m kWh
Energy consumption:	3.52 bn kWh	1.36 m kWh	3.898 tn kWh	11.74 m kWh
Energy production:	3.05 bn kWh	1.18 m kWh	4.049 tn kWh	12.20 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	14.13 bn kWh	42,587.96 kWh
Energy imports:	1.10 bn kWh	425,355.52 kWh	61.45 bn kWh	185,146.19 kWh
CO2 emissions:	7.25 m t	2,801.90 t	4.82 bn t	14,515.85 t

Telecommunication

Details for Botswana and the United States

	Botswana	United States
International dialing:	+267	+1
Internet domain:	.bw	.us

	BWA total	BWA per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	132,457	51	101,526,000	306
Mobile cellulars:	4,160,553	1607	351,477,000	1059
Internet server:	1,806	1	505,000,000	1522
Internet users:	1,656,591	640	301,691,414	909
Broadband Internet:	203,020	78	125,885,000	379

Healthcare system

Details for Botswana and the United States

	Botswana	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	1.80	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.37	2.59
Diabetes:	5.8 %	10.8 %
HIV:	6.03 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	2.35 ‰	0.03 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	78.0 %	74.0 %
Smokers:	19.4 %	23.0 %

Climate

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

	Botswana	United States
Daytime temperatures:	28.6 °C	18.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	12.9 °C	7.3 °C
Rel. humidity:	49 %	67 %
Rain days:	3.7	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	9.3	7.2

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
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Native languages

	Botswana	United States
English:	2.1 %	82.1 %
Tswana:	78.2 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Kalanga:	7.9 %	n/a
San:	3.5 %	n/a
Sekgalagadi:	2.8 %	n/a
Khoekhoe:	2.5 %	n/a
Ndebele:	1.3 %	n/a
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
French:	n/a	0.7 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
German:	n/a	0.6 %
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Korean:	n/a	0.3 %
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	1.7 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Botswana	United States
Christianity:	71.6 %	78.5 %
Nondenominational:	20.6 %	n/a
Badimo:	6.0 %	n/a
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Islam:	n/a	1.1 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	1.8 %	15.3 %

Data inventory and updates

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