Country Risk Index · BWA

Botswana

Southern Africa · May 2026 snapshot

8/ 100 CRI
Contained

Peer rank #10 of 10

MoM +0.1

CRI trend

Apr 2026 · May 2026

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Pillar scores

Currency (20%)
1
Sovereign (20%)
0
Regulatory (15%)
0
Counterparty (15%)
0
Liquidity (15%)
45
Political (15%)
4

Indicator inputs


Currency

1
Parallel-vs-official FX premium
0 %n0
12-month local-currency depreciation
5 %n0
Inflation (YoY)
4 %n2

Sovereign

0
External debt / GDP
21 %n0
In external arrears
0 0/1n0
ICRG-style sovereign band
3 1–10n0

Regulatory

0
Months since last RBZ/FX directive
73 monthsn0
Investment-approval backlog
3 weeksn0
FATF grey/black-list status
0 0/1/2n0

Counterparty

0
Banking-sector NPL ratio
4 %n0
State-owned-enterprise share of economy
18 %n0

Liquidity

45
Equity-market turnover / market-cap
5 %n90
Days to repatriate USD
5 daysn0

Political

4
Months to next national election
35 monthsn13
ACLED conflict-events trend
8 indexn0
Governance percentile
71 0–100n0

Each row shows the raw indicator value and (n) its peer-relative normalised 0–100 risk value. Source: desk estimates from public data.

Indicative composite · Not investment advice · May 2026