Botswana will take 23 years to reach three million
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
As at 2011, the official population count for Botswana is 2,024,904, with non-citizens accounting for 5.5 percent of the population (111,846 people in real terms.)
Statistics Botswana’s Deputy Statistician General Dabilani Buthali said yesterday that at the current rate, and with the prevailing socio-economic, political and environmental conditions, a one million-mark increase would be in 23 years’ time.
It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...