World population/Botswana
Africa
Population of Botswana
2,603,392
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#146
world rank
0.03%
of world population
+1.59%
yearly change
+41,255
people this year
60,884
births a year
14,979
deaths a year
How the figure for Botswana is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Botswana at 2,603,392 on 1 July 2026, and projects 2,644,647 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.00 people added every second.
That places Botswana at number 146 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.03 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 58 entries in Africa.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 60,884 births and 14,979 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in Africa
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