Botswana
Republic of Botswana
- Capital
- Gaborone
- Region
- Southern Africa
- Population, 2025
- 2.6 million
- Currency
- BWP
- Area
- 582,000 km²
Across Botswana's 5 priced cities, one person needs about $866 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $455.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
- Purchasing power25%39
- Safety20%49
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%80
- Connectivity10%26
- Cost10%83
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 25%
- SourcePwC
- Lowest income tax rate
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 22%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 14%
- SourcePwC
- Capital gains, individuals
- 25%
- SourcePwC
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 48.9
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 51.1
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2021
- 11.4
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #111 worldwide
- 52
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- —
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +68%
Cities in Botswana
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Francistown | 63 | — | — | — | — | 103.4K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 2Gaborone | 56 | 35.2 | $338 | $455 | 60.0 | 246.3K | Medium confidence, 17 contributors |
| 3Tlokweng | 49 | 35.0 | — | — | — | 55.5K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 4Palapye | 49 | 35.0 | — | — | — | 52.6K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 5Pilikwe | 49 | 35.0 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 6Bonwapitse | 49 | 35.0 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 7Maun | 41 | — | — | — | — | 85.4K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 8Serowe | 41 | — | — | — | — | 55.7K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 9Selibe Phikwe | 41 | — | — | — | — | 42.5K | Low confidence |
| 10Tonota | 41 | — | — | — | — | 23.3K | Low confidence |
| 11Bobonong | 41 | — | — | $1,151 | — | 21.2K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 12Gabane | 41 | — | $167 | — | — | 20K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 13Mmadinare | 41 | — | — | — | — | 13.2K | Low confidence |
| 14Bokaa | 41 | — | — | $1,306 | — | 9.1K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 15Sebina | 41 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence |