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Botswana

525 tracked trade-flow records · 0 of 2 ports tracked
NOT IN TOP CORRIDORS
Live from the production database.
Coverage
MetricValueNotes
Tracked flow records525Raw count of trade-flow records in the database naming Botswana as an origin or destination — a record count, never a summed dollar total.
Port coverage0of 2Ports catalogued for Botswana with verified cargo statistics tracked on PortIndex.

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Trade partner concentration — by country, all commodities, current

How concentrated Botswana's trade is across its top partner countries, computed from currently-tracked trade flows (not the historical 1997–2015 World Bank dataset). Measures country-to-country concentration only — Botswana's trade_flows records don't carry product-level detail to break this down further.

2216HHI · Moderately concentrated

+ 181 more tracked partners not shown above.

Top trading partners — Statistics Botswana merchandise trade digest by principal partner (monthly)
Botswana's own official trading-partner ranking, Jun 2026. Published directly by Botswana's own national statistics office or customs authority -- a different measurement from the computed concentration figures above, and not the frozen World Bank Exporter Dynamics vintage below. Currency is each source's own reported unit, not converted here (no FX-rate table exists on this site).
PartnerExportsImports
South AfricaBWP 646.7MBWP 4.2B
United Arab EmiratesBWP 1.2B—
ChinaBWP 737.6MBWP 415.6M
IndiaBWP 574.6MBWP 411.2M
NamibiaBWP 67.9MBWP 853.4M
BelgiumBWP 522.8M—
AustraliaBWP 518.0M—
Mozambique—BWP 247.5M
ZimbabweBWP 169.3MBWP 32.9M
Germany—BWP 143.7M
ZambiaBWP 37.5MBWP 58.2M
United States—BWP 86.1M
AnguillaBWP 78.6M—
Japan—BWP 76.1M
Finland—BWP 63.4M
EswatiniBWP 4.8MBWP 31.0M
LesothoBWP 600.0KBWP 2.1M
Goods trade — current (customs basis)
Live dataset — Statistics Botswana IMTS monthly trade, Jan 2025 to Jun 2026. Reported directly by this country's own customs authority. Updates as Botswana's own reporting authority publishes new months — not the frozen World Bank Exporter Dynamics vintage below.
Reported in PULA, Botswana's own national currency — not USD, and not converted here (no FX-rate table exists on this site). Not directly comparable in magnitude to other countries' USD-denominated figures without converting first.
MetricLatest valueMonthTrend (Jan 2025–Jun 2026)
Goods exportsPULA 5.0BJun 202618 months data points (Jan 2025–Jun 2026)
Goods importsPULA 7.3BJun 202618 months data points (Jan 2025–Jun 2026)
Bilateral trade flows
Botswana is not among the top tracked corridors — its bilateral flow records exist in the full 1,821,338-row dataset but aren't yet browsable individually on this site.
Full partner list for 2023

Every one of Botswana's 125 real trading partners reported for 2023 under UN Comtrade (BW) — a complete, deduplicated partner breakdown for this exact country/source/period combination, not a global top-N slice.

125 of 125 partners — page 1 of 3
PartnerReported value
United Arab Emirates (AE)$1.6B
Belgium (BE)$985.9M
India (IN)$674.2M
South Africa (ZA)$653.0M
China (CN)$351.7M
Hong Kong (HK)$322.9M
Israel (IL)$215.1M
Australia (AU)$121.2M
United States (US)$111.9M
Singapore (SG)$97.8M
Zimbabwe (ZW)$84.1M
Namibia (NA)$60.9M
Anguilla (AI)$33.6M
Cambodia (KH)$32.3M
Sri Lanka (LK)$26.7M
Zambia (ZM)$26.4M
Viet Nam (VN)$17.4M
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the (CD)$14.6M
Japan (JP)$7.8M
Mozambique (MZ)$5.1M
United Kingdom (GB)$3.7M
Angola (AO)$2.2M
Germany (DE)$1.9M
Armenia (AM)$1.6M
Nigeria (NG)$1.4M
Malawi (MW)$1.3M
Tanzania, United Republic of (TZ)$1.2M
Canada (CA)$1.2M
Pakistan (PK)$972.7K
Netherlands (NL)$931.8K
Thailand (TH)$739.7K
Lesotho (LS)$736.4K
Norway (NO)$604.3K
Uganda (UG)$600.7K
Kenya (KE)$493.5K
Mali (ML)$479.7K
Eswatini (SZ)$367.2K
Eritrea (ER)$281.7K
Mauritius (MU)$279.3K
Sierra Leone (SL)$235.4K
France (FR)$182.0K
Liberia (LR)$168.8K
Switzerland (CH)$134.1K
Hungary (HU)$89.5K
Congo (CG)$88.9K
Ghana (GH)$83.1K
Czechia (CZ)$55.4K
Portugal (PT)$50.6K
Poland (PL)$40.5K
Austria (AT)$25.5K
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Historical Exporter Dynamics
Historical dataset — World Bank Exporter Dynamics Database, 1997–2014, frozen. The World Bank has not published a newer edition; this never updates. Botswana also has a single-year firm entry/exit snapshot on /labor-market.

Firm-level entry/exit/survival dynamics for Botswana's exporting firms, whole economy (not broken down by product) so every figure below is a genuine national rate — never an average across incompatible product categories. See /exporter-dynamics to compare Botswana against all 68 covered countries.

MetricLatest valueYearTrend (2003–2013)
Number of exporting firms1,773201311 yearly data points (2003–2013)
Incumbent exporting firms1,130201310 yearly data points (2004–2013)
New entrant exporting firms643201310 yearly data points (2004–2013)
Exiting exporting firms756201310 yearly data points (2004–2013)
Firm entry rate36.3%201310 yearly data points (2004–2013)
Firm exit rate40.1%201310 yearly data points (2004–2013)
Exporter concentration (EDD HHI, 0–1 scale)0.420201311 yearly data points (2003–2013)
Product categories exported (distinct HS4 codes)942201311 yearly data points (2003–2013)
Avg. export value per exporting firm$4.1M201311 yearly data points (2003–2013)
Median export value per exporting firm$3.4K201311 yearly data points (2003–2013)
Avg. destination countries per exporting firm1.5201411 yearly data points (2004–2014)
Median destination countries per exporting firm1.0201411 yearly data points (2004–2014)

The 2013 mean is 1208x the median — a small number of large exporting firms account for most of the export value; the typical firm exports far less than the average figure suggests.

Entrant survival curve — 2012 cohort of new exporting firms: 35.5% still exporting after 1 year — later years not yet available for this cohort (the World Bank vintage ends before enough time passed to observe them).

Top product categories among Botswana's exporting firms by number of exporters, 2013 — each row is a real, separately-reported HS2 product category, never combined with another.

Product category (HS2)Exporting firms
Machinery and mechanical appliances HS 84705
Electrical machinery and equipment HS 85470
Vehicles other than railway HS 87362
Articles of iron or steel HS 73342
Plastics and articles thereof HS 39244
Optical, medical, precision instruments HS 90238
Furniture, bedding, lamps HS 94204
Tools, cutlery of base metal HS 82179

Top manufacturing industries among Botswana's exporting firms by number of exporters, 2013 — each row is a real, separately-reported ISIC industry, never combined with another.

Manufacturing industry (ISIC)Exporting firms
Other fabricated metal products; metalworking ISIC 289411
General purpose machinery ISIC 291380
Special purpose machinery ISIC 292314
Plastics products ISIC 252290
Other chemical products ISIC 242280
Office, accounting and computing machinery ISIC 300228
Other manufacturing ISIC 369210
Medical, measuring, checking, testing instruments ISIC 331203