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Botswana's unemployment levels grew in 2021 on the back of continued negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the fifth report of the Labour Force Module from the quarterly Multi Topic Survey (QMTS) by Statistics Botswana has reported.  The Employed Population (15 years and above) recorded a decline of 2.2 percent between quarters four (4) 2020 and four (4) of 2021, from 733,875 to 717,418 persons.

Botswana's trade deficit went down in November 2021 on the back of improved export activity. According to the International Merchandise Trade Statistics for the month of November 2021 released by Statistics Botswana on Friday, total exports value for the month went up by 18.0 percent (P901.3 million), from the revised October 2021 figure of P5, 013.8 million to P5, 915.0 million. 

An account of goods sold by the country to foreign markets during the month of November 2021 shows an 18 percent upward movement with the hike attributed to

December inflation goes up by 0.1 percent Although it is expected to slow down this year, the annual inflation continued to increase with the December inflation going up by 0.1 percent on the backdrop of fuel price increase. The annual inflation in December stood at 8.7 percent, way above the Bank of Botswana’s medium term […]

Food worth P995m imported in October 2021 Total imports value is P8 billion Botswana’s food production value chain weak BAKANG

Botswana's inflation continued to rise in December 2021, after registering a slight increase of 0.1 percent, Statistics Botswana has reported.  In its monthly release of the Consumer Price Index, the country's central data authority stated that annual inflation rate was 8.7 percent in December 2021, registering an increase of 0.1 of a percentage point from the November 2021 rate of 8.6 percent.

The local economy has a looming bogeyman ----and that is stagflation. In the discipline of Economics, when an economy experiences a collusion of elevated

Effective regulatory reform has made Botswana’s telecom market one of the most liberalised in the region. There is a service-neutral licensing regime adapted to the convergence of technologies and services, and several operators now compete in all telecom sectors.

The local mining industry is on the rise again, emerging out of the COVID-19 pandemic induced headwinds. 

Botswana exports took a knock in October 2021 registering only P4,960.7 million, a 22.1 percent decline from the revised September 2021 value of P6,365.1 million, latest International Merchandise Trade Statistics  have revealed.  According to this monthly data, released by Statistics Botswana late December 2021 the decline is attributed largely to the reduction in the exportation […]