Training of the trainers – Country profiles
Countries (nb of participants per countries)
Independence date
Size (km2)
Colonial Power
Official languages
Botwana (1)
30-Sep-66
236 040
Britain
English
Malawi (2)
6-Jul-64
118 480
Britain
Chichewa, English
Mozambique (2)
25-Jun-75
801 590
Portugal
Portuguese
Namibia (3)
21-Mar
825 418
English
South Africa (2)
31-May-61
121 9912
Germany, South Africa Britain, The Netherlands
Zambia (1)
24-Oct-64
752 614
Britain
Zimbabwe (2)
18 – Apr-80
390 540
Britain
Afrikaans, English, IsiNdebele, IsiXhosa, IsiZulu, Sepedi, Sesotho, Setswana, SiSwati, Tshivenda, Xitsonga Bemba, Nyanja, Tonga
English, Shona, Sindebele
Population (million)
Religion/s
Population under 15 (%)
Capital City
Population (m)
Christian, Badimo/indige nous Christian, Muslim Catholic, Muslim, Zionist Christian Christian
2
34
Gaborone
0,2
15,4
45
Lilongwe
0,6
24
45
Maputo
1,2
2,3
37
Windhoek
0,3
Christian, Muslim, Hindu
50,6
30
Bloemfontei n / Pretoria / Cape Town
0,3 /0,7 / 0,4
English Christian, Muslim, Hindu Syncretic, Christian, Indigenous
13,5
47
Lusaka
1,3
12,8
40
Harare
1,5
Countries (nb of partiticipants per country)
Form of government
Botwana (1)
Parliamentary republic
Malawi (2)
Presidential system Presidential system
Mozambique (2) Namibia (3)
Presidential system
South Africa (2) Zambia (1)
Parliamentary republic Presidential system Semipresidential system
Zimbabwe (2)
Head of state
President Seretse Khama Ian Khama President Joyce Banda President Armando Guebuza President Hifikepunye Lucas Pohamba President Jacob Zuma President Michael Sata President Robert Mugabe
7220
Human development index (HDI) (world ranking) 119
4,5
291
2005
15,8
2005
Life expectancy
HIV/AIDS infection rate (% of pop)
Adult literacy (% of pop)
Population living in poverty (% of pop)
Internet users (% of pop)
Cellphone users (% of pop)
53
24,8
84,5
30,3
11,5
149
170
54
11
75
53
4,4
28
617
185
50
11,5
56
54,6
4,8
33
12,8
5107
128
52
13,1
89
55,8
12,9
114
2009
402,2
7284
121
52
17,8
89
23
41
123
2011
21,3
2003
163
41
13,5
71,2
64
13,5
63
1987
12,3
659
172
51
14,3
92
68
17,1
75
In power since
GDP (Billion $)
Per capita GDP ($)
2008
18,2
2012
References : Africa by Numbers, Arterial Network, 2013