Botswana’s population is on course to approach 3 million by 2038, with a rapidly expanding working-age population and accelerating urbanisation set to reshape the country’s economy while putting pressure on jobs, housing and infrastructure.
The population is projected to rise from 2.40 million people in 2023 to 2.95 million by 2038, an increase of about 558,000 people, according to the latest population projections from Statistics Botswana. The medium-variant scenario, which the report identifies as the country’s primary planning baseline, puts average annual population growth at 1.4% over the period.
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