Botswana will take 23 years to reach three million

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Having taken 28 years to increase by one million, the population of Botswana is projected to take another 23 years before it reaches the three million people mark.

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.

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