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- <title>
- Botswana: People
- </title>
- <article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Botswana
- People</hdr><body>
- <p>Population: 1,325,920 (July 1993 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Population growth rate: 2.53% (1993 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Birth rate: 33.39 births/1,000 population (1993 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Death rate: 8.05 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Infant mortality rate: 40.6 deaths/1,000 live births (1993
- est.)
- </p>
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- <l>Life expectancy at birth:</l>
- <l> total population: 62.54 years</l>
- <l> male: 59.52 years</l>
- <l> female: 65.65 years (1993 est.)</l>
- </list>
- <p>Total fertility rate: 4.25 children born/woman (1993 est.)
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Nationality:</l>
- <l> noun: Motswana (singular), Batswana (plural)</l>
- <l> adjective: Motswana (singular), Batswana (plural)</l>
- </list>
- <p>Ethnic divisions: Batswana 95%, Kalanga, Basarwa, and
- Kgalagadi 4%, white 1%
- </p>
- <p>Religions: indigenous beliefs 50%, Christian 50%
- </p>
- <p>Languages: English (official), Setswana
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Literacy: age 15 and over able to read and write simple
- sentences (1990)</l>
- <l> total population: 72%</l>
- <l> male: 67%</l>
- <l> female: 74%</l>
- </list>
- <p>Labor force: 400,000
- </p>
- <p> by occupation: 198,500 formal sector employees, most others
- are engaged in cattle raising and subsistence agriculture (1990
- est.); 14,600 are employed in various mines in South Africa
- (1990)
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