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Botswana

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Content

Main article: Africa

Economy

GDP $8168 per person

Inflation

2022: Inflation in November - 13.1%

Data for November 2022

Alcohol market

Minimum age to purchase alcoholic beverages

Data for 2018

R&D

2020: R&D expenses - $183 million

R&D expenses, as of 2020

Botswana IT Market

2022: More than 1 start-up

Data for 2019-2022

Agriculture

2019: Low use of pesticides in agriculture

As of 2019

Consumption

Meat

2023: The most consumed type of meat
The most consumed type of meat (including fish and seafood) according to data available for June 2023.

Vegetables

2018: Vegetable consumption - 44 kg per capita
Потребление овощей в countries Africa, kg per capita population in 2018

Power

Electrification

Доступ к электричеству в countries Africa (2019)

Energy carriers

2020: Energy consumption per capita

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Energy consumption per capita, including electricity, transport heating in 2019-2020

Foreign trade

2022: US is the biggest export destination

According to data available for August 2023.

Population

Main article: Population of Africa

Migration

2021: Net population inflow in 4 years

Overweight

Overweight among adults in Africa, 2016

Mortality

Number of deaths from opioid use disorders per 100,000 people (2016)

Traffic safety

The number of deaths on the roads per 100 thousand vehicles. Data for 2018

Education

Percentage of people who can read

Data for 2019

Health care

2021: Maternity leave

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Число недель оплачиваемого maternity leave countries around the world for 2021

2020: Part of the population defecates on the street

494 млн людей на To the earth defecate on the street. Share of such population by country for 2020

Crime

Prisons

2022: The minimum age for children to be jailed is 8

Data for 2022

2018: Number of prisoners per 100 thousand citizens

World Prison Brief data for 2018

Sport

2022: The most popular sport is football

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Самый популярный вид sport countries of the world to to data June 2022

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 diamond Sewelô, which means "rare find" in Tswana, was discovered at the Karowe mine in Letlhakan (Lucara Diamond Corp).

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

Map of Africa in 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.

Calendar

Какой день считается первым в неделе в countries of the world, 2022