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Main article: Africa
Population
Main article: Population of Africa
Migration
2021: Net population inflow in 4 years
Mortality
Traffic safety
Economy
GDP $8168 per person
Inflation
2022: Inflation in November - 13.1%
Mining
2024: Britain's Aterian boosts exploration space in Botswana, mainly for copper and lithium
Aterian On April 8, 2024, the company said it held ten licenses to explore useful ones minerals in Botswana at the time. The focused company Africa announced it had secured six licenses to mine copper and silver in the Kalahari copper belt, one of the world's most promising areas with unused copper deposits.
R&D
2020: R&D expenses - $183 million
Botswana IT Market
2022: More than 1 start-up
Agriculture
2019: Low use of pesticides in agriculture
Consumption
2023: The most consumed type of meat
2018
Vegetable consumption - 44 kg per capita
Minimum age to purchase alcoholic beverages 18 years
Power
2020: Energy consumption per capita
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2019: Electrification
Foreign trade
2022: US is the biggest export destination
Education
Percentage of people who can read
Health care
2021: Maternity leave
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2020
Duration of guaranteed paid sick leave less than a month
Part of the population defecates on the street
2016: Overweight
Crime
Prisons
2022: The minimum age for children to be jailed is 8
2018: Number of prisoners per 100 thousand citizens
Sport
2022: The most popular sport is football
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History
2020: Louis Vuitton buys huge Botswana diamond
In January 2020, Louis Vuitton bought out a huge diamond from Botswana, found in April 2019.
The French fashion house has not revealed the price of the 1,758-carat stone. It is the second largest diamond found in a century.
2019: Ruling Botswana Democratic Party wins election, Mokwetsi Masisi remains president
In October 2019, the country's Chief Justice announced that the Botswana Democratic Party won 29 seats in the National Assembly, representing 51% of the vote. This means that Mokwetsi Masisi re-became President of Botswana.
The main opposition party, Umbrella for Democratic Change, won 13 seats, the Botswana Patriotic Front won three, and the Alliance of Progressives won one.
1914
200 thousand years ago: is Botswana the birthplace of modern humanity?
Analysis of ancient DNA indicated that the first members of Homo sapiens appeared off the banks of the Zambezi River, where they lived for about 70 thousand years before their descendants began to colonize Africa. This conclusion was reached by scientists whose article in October 2019 was published by the scientific journal Nature.
"The first two groups of people left the area approximately 130 and 110,000 years ago when it began to be favoured by a climate that opened up green corridors across deserts. The first group of migrants moved to the northeast, and the second to the southwest. The second managed to gain a foothold in new territories and begin to colonize southern Africa, "said Vanessa Hayes, a geneticist at the University of New South Wales, one of the authors of the work.
Scientists studied a small part of the genome in mitochondria - mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA).
The oldest mtDNA family includes Khoisan peoples, including South African Bushmen (San) and Gottentots (Koy-Koin). By comparing differences in the structure of this part of the genome, scientists tried to find regions where people with the least number of small mutations lived. 200 mtDNA samples of residents of the Kalahari Desert and other areas of South Africa, Namibia and Botswana were examined and decoded.
The result of the analysis showed that the first representatives of people appeared south of the Zambezi River on the coast of the now dry Lake McGadikgali.
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