er prices):
7% (2004 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
25.5% of GDP (2004 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $3.735 billion
expenditures: $3.743 billion, including capital expenditures of NA
(2004 est.)

Public debt:
8.6% of GDP (2004 est.)

Agriculture - products:
livestock, sorghum, maize, millet, beans, sunflowers, groundnuts

Industries:
diamonds, copper, nickel, salt, soda ash, potash; livestock
processing; textiles

Industrial production growth rate:
4.4% (2004 est.)

Electricity - production:
930 million kWh (2002)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 100%
hydro: 0%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
1.89 billion kWh (2002)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2002)

Electricity - imports:
1.025 billion kWh (2002)

Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - consumption:
16,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA

Oil - imports:
NA

Current account balance:
$337 million (2004 est.)

Exports:
$2.94 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Exports - commodities:
diamonds, copper, nickel, soda ash, meat, textiles

Exports - partners:
European Free Trade Association (EFTA) 87%, Southern African
Customs Union (SACU) 7%, Zimbabwe 4% (2000)

Imports:
$2.255 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Imports - commodities:
foodstuffs, machinery, electrical goods, transport equipment,
textiles, fuel and petroleum products, wood and paper products,
metal and metal products

Imports - partners:
Southern African Customs Union (SACU) 74%, EFTA 17%, Zimbabwe 4%
(2000)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$5.7 billion (2004 est.)

Debt - external:
$531 million (2004 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$73 million (1995)

Currency (code):
pula (BWP)

Currency code:
BWP

Exchange rates:
pulas per US dollar - 4.6929 (2004), 4.9499 (2003), 6.3278 (2002),
5.8412 (2001), 5.1018 (2000)

Fiscal year:
1 April - 31 March

Communications Botswana

Telephones - main lines in use:
142,400 (2002)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
435,000 (2002)

Telephone system:
general assessment: the system is expanding with the growth of
mobile cellular service and participation in regional development
domestic: small system of open-wire lines, microwave radio relay
links, and a few radiotelephone communication stations; mobile
cellular service is growing fast
international: country cod