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NXS-GRX-BWA · Southern Africa

Botsuana

Country risk profile on The Global Risks Index: hazard and threat exposure, vulnerability, macro-financial fragility, coping capacity and systemic coupling, with intervals, sources and corrections on every value.

Seite GRX-BWAAusgabe Basisausgabe 2026Evidenzschluss 2026-09-30ISO BWA / BWStatus UN member stateWerte noch nicht veröffentlichtMethode v1.0.0-draft
ABB. 1 · Botswana in Southern Africa
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FidschiVereinigte Republik TansaniaDemokratische Republik KongoSüdafrikaLesothoSimbabweBotsuanaNamibiaSambiaMalawiMosambikEswatiniAngolaMadagaskarKomorenMauritius
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Domänenindizes
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country indicators
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hazard domains
4
sub-regional peers
02Humanitarian data

Botswana in humanitarian data

Source observations from the Humanitarian Data Exchange, each with its reference date, provider and licence. They are not index values.

Population · 2023-12-31

2,418,064

people. UNFPA · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

Poverty headcount · 2016-12-31

17.2%

of people in multidimensional poverty. Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative · Public Domain / No restrictions (CC0).

Refugees hosted · 2025-12-31

901

refugees and asylum-seekers in the country. UNHCR – The UN Refugee Agency · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

Refugees from the country · 2025-12-31

1,203

refugees and asylum-seekers abroad, most in Ireland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Canada. UNHCR – The UN Refugee Agency · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

Rainfall

1 units

with rainfall against the long-term average, on the unit pages. WFP – World Food Programme · Creative Commons Attribution International (CC BY).

03Bereiche

The full profile of Botswana, area by area

Fourteen areas from macroeconomy to frontier technology, and the planned innovation index. Each card says whether its sources are cleared, shows the mix, and gives two actions: what the area needs, and a scenario you can run now on open data.

LesehilfeAdmitted: usableUnder legal review: waitingProhibited: excludedNot in the register: not yet assessedAcross the 14 areas: 113 admitted · 63 under legal review · 23 prohibited · 170 not in the register
Partly admitted14 indicators · 2 composites

Macroeconomy and external position

Output, prices, external balance and reserves, monetary conditions and labour, with intervals and the change since the last edition.

GDP
US$ 19.9 billion 2025
GDP per person
US$ 7,778 2025
GDP growth
-0.7% 2025
4 admitted · 4 under legal review · 1 not in the register
Partly admitted37 indicators · 7 composites

Fiscal position and public debt

Debt path fan charts, gross financing needs, debt service and fiscal stress, with the assumptions published.

Government revenue
28.1% 2023
Government expense
26.5% 2024
Central government debt
19.8% 2023
7 admitted · 13 under legal review · 8 not in the register
Partly admitted32 indicators · 7 composites

Financial system

Banking-system capital and liquidity, credit growth, asset prices and contagion on the dependency network.

Domestic credit from the financial sector
55.9% 2025
Non-performing loans
3.3% 2025
Bank capital to assets
9.5% 2025
9 admitted · 4 under legal review · 1 prohibited · 8 not in the register
Partly admitted18 indicators · 5 composites

Trade, economic structure and supply chains

Trade openness and concentration, commodity dependence and supply-chain exposure by sector.

Handel
69.5% 2025
Exporte
32% 2025
Fuel exports
0.7% 2023
8 admitted · 6 under legal review · 5 not in the register
Partly admitted13 indicators · 5 composites

Wasser

Water stress, drought, access and quality, coupled to food, energy and health in the water, energy, food, health and biodiversity nexus.

Safely managed drinking water
63.3% 2024
Wasserstress
2.2% 2022
Renewable internal freshwater per person
984 m³ 2022
3 admitted · 2 under legal review · 2 prohibited · 4 not in the register
Partly admitted23 indicators · 6 composites

Energie

Supply security, import dependence, grid reliability, transition exposure and access.

Access to electricity
80.2% 2024
Renewable energy
27.4% 2021
Energy imports, net
25.3% 2024
7 admitted · 5 under legal review · 1 prohibited · 18 not in the register
Partly admitted23 indicators · 6 composites

Food systems

Availability, access, prices and nutrition, and the drivers from water, energy, trade and conflict.

Undernourishment
18.2% 2024
Cereal yield
900 2024
Agriculture, value added
1.8% 2025
14 admitted · 4 under legal review · 2 not in the register
Partly admitted31 indicators · 6 composites

Gesundheitssicherheit

Health-system capacity, outbreak preparedness, disease burden and the health effects of other systems.

Life expectancy
69.3 years 2024
Under-5 mortality
33.3 2024
Health spending
6.3% 2023
4 admitted · 2 under legal review · 15 prohibited · 8 not in the register
Partly admitted22 indicators · 6 composites

Environment and biodiversity

Ecosystem condition, biodiversity pressure, land and ocean change and nature dependence of the economy.

Forest area
27.8% 2024
Protected areas
27.6% 2025
PM2.5 air pollution
13.2 µg/m³ 2023
9 admitted · 5 under legal review · 1 prohibited · 22 not in the register
Partly admitted31 indicators · 8 composites

Climate: physical and transition

Chronic and acute physical risk under scenarios, and transition exposure of the economy and the public balance sheet.

CO₂ emissions per person
2.7 t CO₂e 2024
Greenhouse gas emissions
12.1 Mt CO₂e 2024
People below 5 m elevation
0% 2015
10 admitted · 7 under legal review · 24 not in the register
Partly admitted39 indicators · 10 composites

Conflict, governance and security

Violence and its spillovers, institutional quality, rule of law and state capacity.

Intentional homicides
11.4 2021
9 admitted · 4 under legal review · 1 prohibited · 14 not in the register
Partly admitted27 indicators · 10 composites

Frontier technology and innovation

Frontier technology risk and capacity side by side: AI, compute, semiconductors, quantum, space, biotech, cyber resilience and digital infrastructure, with the innovation index below.

Research and development spending
0.56% 2013
Researchers in R&D
180 2013
High-technology exports
0.5% 2023
9 admitted · 5 under legal review · 1 prohibited · 26 not in the register
Partly admitted18 indicators · 5 composites

Coping capacity and disaster finance

Preparedness, response and recovery capacity, risk financing and social protection.

Social protection coverage
3.8% 2015
9 admitted · 1 under legal review · 1 prohibited · 18 not in the register
Partly admitted46 indicators · 11 composites

Society, demography and mobility

Human development, inequality, ageing, urbanisation and displacement.

Bevölkerung
2.6 million 2025
Urban population
68% 2025
Poverty at $3.00 a day
21.4% 2015
11 admitted · 1 under legal review · 12 not in the register
Geplant12 planned indicators

Innovation index

Research, patents, talent, compute, digital infrastructure and capital for Botswana, read beside frontier technology risk. Not in Indicator Standard yet; each indicator needs its source admitted.

04Quote

Botswana composite risk

Value, change since the previous edition, 90% interval and class probability; the history and the published indicators follow.

NXS-GRX-BWA · CRI · Southern Africa · 0–10 scale
Botswana composite risk
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Values publish with the edition; the interval, class and change appear here.
Previous edition
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Range since 2016
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Coupled composite
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Coupling score S
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Pulse, latest week
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Outlook, 12 months
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Methode
Indicator Standard 1.0 · NXS-GRX 2026
Draws
1,000
Botswana composite risk, by edition

No released values yet. The first edition draws the history here with its interval band and class bounds.

The line is the point value by edition; the band is the 90% interval; dashed lines are the class bounds at 2, 3.5, 5 and 6.5.

“Botswana: published indicators” is not connected: the Foundry connection it needs is switched off on this network.

05Profile

Four pillars, composite and coupled composite

The composite is shown only with its four pillars and twenty domain indices beside it; each value carries a 90% interval and a class with its probability.

InstrumentWertVeränderungVeränderung %90%-IntervallKlasse · WahrscheinlichkeitTrendSpanne
NXS-GRX Composite-RisikoNXS-GRX-BWA · CRI–––––
NXS-GRX Gekoppeltes RisikoNXS-GRX-BWA · CPL–––––
Gefahren- und BedrohungsexpositionNXS-GRX-BWA · HTE–––––
Verwundbarkeit von Menschen und SystemenNXS-GRX-BWA · VUL–––––
Makrofinanzielle und strukturelle FragilitätNXS-GRX-BWA · MSF–––––
Fehlende Bewältigungs- und AnpassungskapazitätNXS-GRX-BWA · LCC–––––
Sehr niedrig0.0 bis < 2.0
Niedrig2.0 bis < 3.5
Mittel3.5 bis < 5.0
Hoch5.0 bis < 6.5
Sehr hoch6.5 bis 10.0
07Kopplung

How Botswana is coupled to the world

Not yet estimated. Coupling strengths through trade and inputs, finance and debt, energy, food trade, infrastructure and information are ◆ ESTIMATED per edition with their method and references; the coupled composite is reported beside the standalone one.
09Peers

Profiles in Southern Africa

A peer group is a reading context, not a ranking; profiles are listed by name.

Explore Botswana

Indices, hazards, the map and the data behind every value.

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