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Botswana vs Namibia

117 shared metrics.

BotswanaLeads in 59

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NamibiaLeads in 58

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Botswana

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Identity

Formal name: Republic of Botswana.

CIA 2026

Curated stat

Botswana's Okavango Delta floods during the dry season and never reaches the sea.

UNESCO

Namibia

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Identity

Formal name: Republic of Namibia.

CIA 2026

Curated stat

Namibia's Namib Desert is considered the oldest desert on Earth.

NASA

Analysis

Botswana leads in 59 of 117 shared metrics, while Namibia leads in 58.

Botswana's Coal Electricity Share is 39.3x that of Namibia (98.25% vs 2.4%).

Botswana's Electricity Carbon Intensity is 16.4x that of Namibia (851.31 gCO2/kWh vs 48.78 gCO2/kWh).

Botswana's Water Stress (%) is 4.3x that of Namibia (8.9% vs 1.7%).

Botswana's High-Tech Exports (%) is 3.6x that of Namibia (0.54% vs 0.12%).

Botswana's Government Debt (% GDP) is 3.2x that of Namibia (19.6% of GDP vs 4.6% of GDP).

Key Comparisons

Coal Electricity ShareBotswana leads

Botswana

98.25%

Namibia

2.4%

Electricity Carbon IntensityBotswana leads

Botswana

851.31 gCO2/kWh

Namibia

48.78 gCO2/kWh

Water Stress (%)Botswana leads

Botswana

8.9%

Namibia

1.7%

High-Tech Exports (%)Botswana leads

Botswana

0.54%

Namibia

0.12%

Government Debt (% GDP)Botswana leads

Botswana

19.6% of GDP

Namibia

4.6% of GDP

Forest Coverage (%)Botswana leads

Namibia

Namibia

Botswana

2.4% of GDP

Namibia

14.76% of GDP

84% lower

GNI Per Capita

Botswana

$7,750

Namibia

$4,240

83% higher

Seafood Consumption per Person

Namibia

Botswana

2.4 kg/person/yr

Namibia

12.11 kg/person/yr

80% lower

Comparison of Botswana and Namibia across 117 metrics
				Winner
Coal Electricity Share	98.25%	2.4%	3927% higher	Botswana
Electricity Carbon Intensity	851.31 gCO2/kWh	48.78 gCO2/kWh	1645% higher	Botswana
Water Stress (%)	8.9%	1.7%	432% higher	Botswana
High-Tech Exports (%)	0.54%	0.12%	360% higher	Botswana
Government Debt (% GDP)	19.6% of GDP	4.6% of GDP	322% higher	Botswana
Forest Coverage (%)	26.29%	7.8%	237% higher	Botswana
Air Passengers	172.7K	60.3K	186% higher	Botswana
CO2 Per Capita	3.0 t/person/yr	1.1 t/person/yr	159% higher	Botswana
Forest Area	149.0K km²	64.3K km²	132% higher	Botswana
Spirits Consumption	1.0 L/person/yr	0.46 L/person/yr	120% higher	Botswana
Water Withdrawal	0.21 B m³	0.10 B m³	107% higher	Botswana
Solar Electricity Share	0.29%	35.37%	99% lower	Namibia
Vehicles per 1,000 People	292.32 per 1k people	148.11 per 1k people	97% higher	Botswana
Beer Consumption	2.6 L/person/yr	1.3 L/person/yr	95% higher	Botswana
Mobile Subscriptions (%)	164 per 100 people	85 per 100 people	93% higher	Botswana
Total CO2 Emissions	6.9 Mt CO2e	3.6 Mt CO2e	89% higher	Botswana
Sanitation Access (%)	72.12%	38.72%	86% higher	Botswana
FDI Inflows (% GDP)	2.4% of GDP	14.76% of GDP	84% lower	Namibia
GNI Per Capita	$7,750	$4,240	83% higher	Botswana
Seafood Consumption per Person	2.4 kg/person/yr	12.11 kg/person/yr	80% lower	Namibia
Scientific Publications	392.69	219.77	79% higher	Botswana
Women in Parliament (%)	8.7%	40.63%	79% lower	Namibia
GDP Per Capita (PPP)	$20,538.13	$11,686.6	76% higher	Botswana
Irrigated Land	25 km²	80 km²	69% lower	Namibia
Energy Use (Per Capita)	1.2K kg oil eq/person	692.46 kg oil eq/person	68% higher	Botswana
Railway Length	888 km	2.6K km	66% lower	Namibia
Milk Consumption per Person	117.74 kg/person/yr	73.05 kg/person/yr	61% higher	Botswana
Airports	127	294	57% lower	Namibia
Firms Asked for Bribes	6.1% of firms	13.77% of firms	55% lower	Namibia
Time Zones Count	3.0 time zones	2.0 time zones	50% higher	Botswana
ATMs per 100,000 Adults	35.62 per 100k	67.43 per 100k	47% lower	Namibia
Firms Making Informal Payments	8.6% of firms	5.9% of firms	46% higher	Botswana
GDP (Nominal)	$19,402,063,512.91	$13,372,354,511.72	45% higher	Botswana
Armed Forces Personnel	9.0K	16.0K	44% lower	Namibia
Alcohol Consumption	7.3 L/adult/yr	5.0 L/adult/yr	44% higher	Botswana
Highest Elevation	1.5K m	2.6K m	42% lower	Namibia
Tourism Revenue	$217,000,000	$155,000,000	40% higher	Botswana
Capital Elevation	1.0K m	1.6K m	39% lower	Namibia
Health Spending (% GDP)	5.7% of GDP	9.3% of GDP	38% lower	Namibia
Electricity Generation	2.6 TWh	1.9 TWh	37% higher	Botswana
Imports (% GDP)	43.71% of GDP	67.98% of GDP	36% lower	Namibia
Informal Employment Share	75.58% of employed people	55.64% of employed people	36% higher	Botswana
Electricity Access (%)	76%	56.7%	34% higher	Botswana
Exports (% GDP)	27.39% of GDP	41.64% of GDP	34% lower	Namibia
Urban Population (%)	67.46%	50.41%	34% higher	Botswana
Smoking Rate	18.7%	14.1%	33% higher	Botswana
Inflation Rate	2.8%	4.2%	33% lower	Namibia
Tax Revenue (% GDP)	22.49% of GDP	32.96% of GDP	32% lower	Namibia
Land Area	566.7K km²	823.3K km²	31% lower	Namibia
Doctors (per 1,000)	0.38 per 1k	0.55 per 1k	31% lower	Namibia
Food Waste per Person	96.68 kg/person/yr	136.75 kg/person/yr	29% lower	Namibia
Life Evaluation Score	3.5 pts	4.8 pts	28% lower	Namibia
Protected Land (%)	29.1%	39.9%	27% lower	Namibia
Internet Users (%)	81%	64%	27% higher	Botswana
Corruption Perceptions Index	58 pts	46 pts	26% higher	Botswana
Political Corruption Index	0.20	0.27	26% lower	Namibia
Minimum Paid Vacation Days	15 days/yr	20 days/yr	25% lower	Namibia
Broadband Access (%)	3.0 per 100 people	4.0 per 100 people	25% lower	Namibia
Road Traffic Death Rate	16.5 per 100k	22 per 100k	25% lower	Namibia
Border Neighbors	3.0	4.0	25% lower	Namibia
Electricity Use (Per Capita)	1.5K kWh/person	1.2K kWh/person	24% higher	Botswana
Population Density	4.4 /km²	3.6 /km²	22% higher	Botswana
Youth Unemployment Rate	46% of youth labor force	38.05% of youth labor force	21% higher	Botswana
Unemployment Rate	23.14%	19.15%	21% higher	Botswana
Credit Card Ownership	7.3% of adults	9.2% of adults	21% lower	Namibia
Meat Consumption per Person	24.44 kg/person/yr	30.53 kg/person/yr	20% lower	Namibia
Firms Hit by Power Outages	64.16% of firms	53.68% of firms	20% higher	Botswana
All-Time Olympic Medals	4.0 medals	5.0 medals	20% lower	Namibia
Teen Birth Rate	53.8 per 1k	66.03 per 1k	19% lower	Namibia
University Enrollment Rate	21.41%	26.11%	18% lower	Namibia
Women's Political Empowerment	0.70	0.85	18% lower	Namibia
Health Spending Per Capita	$477.83	$405.59	18% higher	Botswana
Dependency Ratio	56.66% of working-age pop.	68.5% of working-age pop.	17% lower	Namibia
Electric Generating Capacity	758.0K kW	646.0K kW	17% higher	Botswana
Firms with Female Top Manager	22.97% of firms	27.53% of firms	17% lower	Namibia
Digital Payments Used	56.95% of adults	67.62% of adults	16% lower	Namibia
Obesity Rate	17.46%	15.29%	14% higher	Botswana
Insufficient Physical Activity	22.67% of adults	26.21% of adults	14% lower	Namibia
Youth Population (%)	32.13%	36.98%	13% lower	Namibia
Can Raise Emergency Money	78.75% of adults	90.87% of adults	13% lower	Namibia
Population	2.52M	2.85M	12% lower	Namibia
Birth Rate	21.16 per 1k	23.93 per 1k	12% lower	Namibia
Education Spending (% GDP)	8.1% of GDP	9.1% of GDP	11% lower	Namibia
Human Development Index	0.73	0.67	10% higher	Botswana
Elderly Population (%)	4.0%	3.7%	10% higher	Botswana
Median Age	22.9 years	21.0 years	9% higher	Botswana
Renewable Energy (%)	27.4%	30%	9% lower	Namibia
Nurses & Midwives	3.1 per 1k	3.4 per 1k	9% lower	Namibia
Death Rate	6.8 per 1k	6.4 per 1k	7% higher	Botswana
Mobile Money Accounts	51.62% of adults	48.45% of adults	7% higher	Botswana
Freedom of Expression Index	0.80	0.86	7% lower	Namibia
Electoral Democracy Index	0.67	0.63	5% higher	Botswana
Air Pollution (PM2.5)	18.91 µg/m³	19.99 µg/m³	5% lower	Namibia
Average Weekly Work Hours	42.92 hrs/week	44.91 hrs/week	4% lower	Namibia
Fertility Rate	2.7 children/woman	2.9 children/woman	4% lower	Namibia
Military Spending	2.8% of GDP	2.7% of GDP	4% higher	Botswana
Child Mortality	39.6 per 1k births	40.7 per 1k births	3% lower	Namibia
Agricultural Land (%)	45.63%	47.14%	3% lower	Namibia
Suicide Rate	8.3 per 100k	8.6 per 100k	3% lower	Namibia
Life Expectancy	69.2 years	67.4 years	3% higher	Botswana
Land Border Length	4.3K km	4.2K km	3% higher	Botswana
Hypertension Prevalence	44.4% of adults	44.7% of adults	1% lower	Namibia
Infant Mortality	38.2 per 1k births	38.4 per 1k births	1% lower	Namibia
Homicide Rate	11.37 per 100k	11.21 per 100k	1% higher	Botswana
Coastline Length	0 km	1.6K km	ranked lower	Namibia
Liberal Democracy Index	0.52	0.52	equal	Botswana
Wind Electricity Share	0%	1.2%	ranked lower	Namibia
Women in Senior Management	48.21% of managers	48.24% of managers	equal	Namibia
GDP Growth Rate	-2.99%	3.7%	ranked lower	Namibia
Nobel Laureates Born per Million People	0 per 1M people	0 per 1M people	ranked higher	Botswana
Lowest Elevation	513 m	0 m	ranked higher	Botswana
Official Languages Count	1.0	1.0	equal	Botswana
Current Account Balance (% of GDP)	3.7% of GDP	-13.2% of GDP	ranked higher	Botswana
UNESCO World Heritage Sites	2.0 sites	2.0 sites	equal	Botswana
EV Chargers per 100,000 PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)	0 per 100k people	0.07 per 100k people	ranked lower	Namibia
All-Time Olympic Gold Medals	1.0 gold medals	0 gold medals	ranked higher	Botswana
McDonald's Outlets per Million PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)	0 per 1M people	0 per 1M people	ranked higher	Botswana

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Analysis

Botswana leads in 59 of 117 shared metrics, while Namibia leads in 58.

Botswana's Coal Electricity Share is 39.3x that of Namibia (98.25% vs 2.4%).

Botswana's Electricity Carbon Intensity is 16.4x that of Namibia (851.31 gCO2/kWh vs 48.78 gCO2/kWh).

Botswana's Water Stress (%) is 4.3x that of Namibia (8.9% vs 1.7%).

Botswana's High-Tech Exports (%) is 3.6x that of Namibia (0.54% vs 0.12%).

Botswana's Government Debt (% GDP) is 3.2x that of Namibia (19.6% of GDP vs 4.6% of GDP).

Key Comparisons

Coal Electricity ShareBotswana leads

Botswana

98.25%

Namibia

2.4%

Electricity Carbon IntensityBotswana leads

Botswana

851.31 gCO2/kWh

Namibia

48.78 gCO2/kWh

Water Stress (%)Botswana leads

Botswana

8.9%

Namibia

1.7%

High-Tech Exports (%)Botswana leads

Botswana

0.54%

Namibia

0.12%

Government Debt (% GDP)Botswana leads

Botswana

19.6% of GDP

Namibia

4.6% of GDP

Forest Coverage (%)Botswana leads

Botswana

26.29%

Namibia

7.8%

Coal Electricity Share

98.25%

2.4%

Electricity Carbon Intensity

851.31 gCO2/kWh

48.78 gCO2/kWh

Water Stress (%)

8.9%

1.7%

High-Tech Exports (%)

0.54%

0.12%

Government Debt (% GDP)

19.6% of GDP

4.6% of GDP

Forest Coverage (%)

26.29%

7.8%

Air Passengers

172.7K

60.3K

CO2 Per Capita

3.0 t/person/yr

1.1 t/person/yr

Forest Area

149.0K km²

64.3K km²

Spirits Consumption

1.0 L/person/yr

0.46 L/person/yr

Water Withdrawal

0.21 B m³

0.10 B m³

Solar Electricity Share

0.29%

35.37%

Vehicles per 1,000 People

292.32 per 1k people

148.11 per 1k people

Beer Consumption

2.6 L/person/yr

1.3 L/person/yr

Mobile Subscriptions (%)

164 per 100 people

85 per 100 people

Total CO2 Emissions

6.9 Mt CO2e

3.6 Mt CO2e

Sanitation Access (%)

72.12%

38.72%

FDI Inflows (% GDP)

2.4% of GDP

14.76% of GDP

GNI Per Capita

$7,750

$4,240

Seafood Consumption per Person

2.4 kg/person/yr

12.11 kg/person/yr

Botswana vs Namibia

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Analysis

Key Comparisons

All Metrics

Coal Electricity Share

Electricity Carbon Intensity

Water Stress (%)

High-Tech Exports (%)

Government Debt (% GDP)

Forest Coverage (%)

Air Passengers

CO2 Per Capita

Forest Area

Spirits Consumption

Water Withdrawal

Solar Electricity Share

Vehicles per 1,000 People

Beer Consumption

Mobile Subscriptions (%)

Total CO2 Emissions

Sanitation Access (%)

FDI Inflows (% GDP)

GNI Per Capita

Seafood Consumption per Person

Scientific Publications

Women in Parliament (%)

GDP Per Capita (PPP)

Irrigated Land

Energy Use (Per Capita)

Railway Length

Milk Consumption per Person

Airports

Firms Asked for Bribes

Time Zones Count

ATMs per 100,000 Adults

Firms Making Informal Payments

GDP (Nominal)

Armed Forces Personnel

Alcohol Consumption

Highest Elevation

Tourism Revenue

Capital Elevation

Health Spending (% GDP)

Electricity Generation

Imports (% GDP)

Informal Employment Share

Electricity Access (%)

Exports (% GDP)

Urban Population (%)

Smoking Rate

Inflation Rate

Tax Revenue (% GDP)

Land Area

Doctors (per 1,000)

Food Waste per Person

Life Evaluation Score

Protected Land (%)

Internet Users (%)

Corruption Perceptions Index

Political Corruption Index

Minimum Paid Vacation Days

Broadband Access (%)

Road Traffic Death Rate

Border Neighbors

Electricity Use (Per Capita)

Population Density

Youth Unemployment Rate

Unemployment Rate

Credit Card Ownership

Meat Consumption per Person

Firms Hit by Power Outages

All-Time Olympic Medals

Teen Birth Rate

University Enrollment Rate

Women's Political Empowerment

Health Spending Per Capita