Live population of Botswana

According to official figures released by the United Nations and World Bank Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, the population of Botswana as of 2023 Apr 2 was 2,437,803

According to the 2022 Census, Botswana's share of the world population is 0.030%

Botswana population (2022) and previous data

Year	Over-all-population	Male	Female	Rural-population	Density- /km2	fertility-rate /women	Death-rate		Life-expectancy
Year	Over-all-population	Male	Female	Rural-population	Density- /km2	fertility-rate /women	M	F	M	F
2020	2,351,625	1,139099	1,212,526	703,554	4.149	2.81	38,831	33,957	66.72	72.69
2015	2,120,716	1,021,216	1,099,500	725,610	3.742	2.89	34,496	30,374	66.03	71.86
2010	1,987,106	971,864	1,015,242	757,339	3.506	3.01	39,117	36,066	61.76	66.96
2005	1,799,077	874,870	924,207	817,614	3.174	3.03	54,762	50,999	53.64	58.14
2000	1,643,333	795,433	847,900	808,537	2.899	3.19	64,050	57,737	47.86	52.52
1995	1,469,173	706,299	762,874	800,543	2.592	3.49	50,776	43,782	49.90	55.62
1990	1,286,756	615,288	671,468	800,111	2.270	4.13	39,501	30,591	52.62	60.53
1985	1,069,585	509,559	560,026	871,330	1.887	4.90	26,953	21,368	57.41	64.77
1980	897,860	424,234	473,626	836,174	1.584	5.95	24,314	20,402	56.74	63.38
1975	741,346	356,429	384,917	727,696	1.308	6.35	23,449	20,197	54.66	61.11
1970	627,714	302,104	325,610	641,102	1.107	6.55	23,014	20,299	51.91	58.24
1965	559,996	272,037	287,959	574,267	0.988	6.70	23,084	20,564	49.53	55.84
1960	502,733	243,920	258,813	508,499	0.887	6.65	23,173	21,061	47.50	53.38
1955	463,353	224,929	238,424	456,197	0.817	6.57	23,557	21,670	45.01	50.67
1950	412,541	199,707	212,834	401,326	0.727	6.50	23,435	21,867	42.24	47.56