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Stock of money:

$1.008 billion (31 December 2008) country comparison to the world: 87 $1.026 billion (31 December 2007)

Stock of quasi money:

$4.183 billion (31 December 2008) country comparison to the world: 75 $4.336 billion (31 December 2007)

Stock of domestic credit:

$NA (31 December 2008)

$NA (31 December 2007)

Market value of publicly traded shares:

$3.556 billion (31 December 2008) country comparison to the world: 82 $5.887 billion (31 December 2007)

$3.947 billion (31 December 2006)

Agriculture - products:

livestock, sorghum, maize, millet, beans, sunflowers, groundnuts

Industries:

diamonds, copper, nickel, salt, soda ash, potash; livestock processing; textiles

Industrial production growth rate:

−2.4% (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 158

Electricity - production:

1.052 billion kWh (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 144

Electricity - consumption:

2.648 billion kWh (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 130

Electricity - exports:

0 kWh (2008 est.)

Electricity - imports:

2.181 billion kWh (2008 est.)

Oil - production:

0 bbl/day (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 116

Oil - consumption:

15,000 bbl/day (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 134

Oil - exports:

0 bbl/day (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 207

Oil - imports:

15,180 bbl/day (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 124

Oil - proved reserves:

0 bbl (1 January 2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 101

Natural gas - production:

0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 94

Natural gas - consumption:

0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 208

Natural gas - exports:

0 cu m (2008) country comparison to the world: 46

Natural gas - imports:

0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 71

Natural gas - proved reserves:

0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 105

Current account balance:

$750.3 million (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 49 $2.434 billion (2007 est.)

Exports:

$4.707 billion (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 112 $5.158 billion (2007 est.)

Exports - commodities:

diamonds, copper, nickel, soda ash, meat, textiles

Imports:

$4.486 billion (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 122 $3.447 billion (2007 est.)

Imports - commodities:

foodstuffs, machinery, electrical goods, transport equipment, textiles, fuel and petroleum products, wood and paper products, metal and metal products

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

$9.119 billion (31 December 2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 68 $9.79 billion (31 December 2007 est.)

Debt - external:

$409 million (31 December 2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 168 $408 million (31 December 2007 est.)

Exchange rates:

pulas (BWP) per US dollar - 6.7907 (2008 est.), 6.2035 (2007), 5.8447 (2006), 5.1104 (2005), 4.6929 (2004)

Communications ::Botswana

Telephones - main lines in use:

142,300 (2008) country comparison to the world: 135

Telephones - mobile cellular:

1.486 million (2008) country comparison to the world: 133

Telephone system:

general assessment: the system is expanding with the growth of mobile-cellular service and participation in regional development; system is fully digital with fiber-optic cables linking the major population centers in the east; fixed-line connections declined in recent years and now stand at roughly 8 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular telephone density currently is about 80 per 100 persons

domestic: small system of open-wire lines, microwave radio relay links, and a few radiotelephone communication stations; mobile-cellular service is growing fast

international: country code - 267; international calls are made via satellite, using international direct dialing; 2 international exchanges; digital microwave radio relay links to Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean) (2008)

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 8, FM 13, shortwave 4 (2001)

Television broadcast stations:

2 (1 state-owned, 1 private)

Internet country code:

.bw

Internet hosts:

7,341 (2009) country comparison to the world: 128

Internet users:

120,000 (2008) country comparison to the world: 146

Transportation ::Botswana

Airports:

77 (2009) country comparison to the world: 71

Airports - with paved runways:

total: 9

2,438 to 3,047 m: 2

1,524 to 2,437 m: 6

914 to 1,523 m: 1 (2009)

Airports - with unpaved runways:

total: 68

1,524 to 2,437 m: 4

914 to 1,523 m: 54

under 914 m: 10 (2009)

Railways:

total: 888 km country comparison to the world: 97 narrow gauge: 888 km 1.067-m gauge (2008)

Roadways:

total: 25,798 km country comparison to the world: 103 paved: 8,410 km

unpaved: 17,388 km (2005)

Military ::Botswana

Military branches:

Botswana Defense Force: Ground Forces (includes Air Arm) (2009)

Military service age and obligation:

18 is the apparent age of voluntary military service; the official qualifications for determining minimum age are unknown (2001)

Manpower available for military service:

males age 16–49: 487,853

females age 16–49: 464,278 (2008 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:

males age 16–49: 341,190

females age 16–49: 315,588 (2009 est.)

Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:

male: 23,420

female: 22,904 (2009 est.)

Military expenditures:

3.3% of GDP (2006) country comparison to the world: 42

Transnational Issues ::Botswana

Disputes - international:

Botswana still struggles to seal its border from thousands of Zimbabweans who flee economic collapse and political persecution; Namibia has long supported, and in 2004 Zimbabwe dropped objections to, plans between Botswana and Zambia to build a bridge over the Zambezi River at Kazungula crossing, thereby de facto recognizing the short, but not clearly delimited, Botswana-Zambia boundary

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@Bouvet Island (Antarctica)

Introduction ::Bouvet Island

Background:

This uninhabited volcanic island is almost entirely covered by glaciers and is difficult to approach. It was discovered in 1739 by a French naval officer after whom the island was named. No claim was made until 1825, when the British flag was raised. In 1928, the UK waived its claim in favor of Norway, which had occupied the island the previous year. In 1971, Norway designated Bouvet Island and the adjacent territorial waters a nature reserve. Since 1977, it has run an automated meteorological station on the island.

Geography ::Bouvet Island

Location:

island in the South Atlantic Ocean, southwest of the Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)

Geographic coordinates: