Botswana is undergoing a quite transformation in how people fall in love, marry and have children. The country’s latest vital statistics suggests that the traditional sequence of relationship, marriage and parenthood ids being re-rewritten.
Of the 41,784 live births registered in 2024, 84,3% occurred outside wedlock, while only 15,7% were to married mothers, according to Statistics Botswana’s 2024 Vital Statistics Report.
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