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and where it came from.
Fact sheets, statistics, election results and downloads. This page also carries the site's data policy, because a constituency that asks for a land audit should be able to show its own working.
Published means traceable
Every number on this website traces either to a named source or to a calculation from one, both listed on this page.
Recorded or derived, always labelled
A recorded figure comes from a named published source. A derived figure is calculated here from recorded figures, and the method is printed with it.
One place to edit
All figures live in a single data file. Correcting a number there corrects it on every page at once.
Constituency statistics
The core record.
- ConstituencyMogoditshane East
- DistrictKweneng
- Sub-districtKweneng East
- Created2024
- Created fromMogoditshane constituency
- Population43,155
- Area20 km²
- CharacterEntirely urban
- Wards6
- Registered voters, 202412,710
- Turnout, 202410,009 (78.75%)
- Density2,158 per km²
- Households13,077
- New households a yearAbout 514
- Aged under 1513,180 (30.5%)
- Aged 15 to 3516,272 (37.7%)
- Working age, 15 to 6430,813 (71.4%)
- Growth, 2011 to 20223.93% a year
Recorded: 2022 Delimitation Commission Report and Botswana Press Agency election figures. Derived: density, households, age bands and growth rate, calculated as set out in the methodology below.
Population record
Growth, charted.
All three points are census returns for Mogoditshane. The 2022 Population and Housing Census records 88,098, making Mogoditshane the largest village in Botswana, ahead of Maun at 85,293 and Molepolole at 74,719.
2024 general election
The result in full.
Ward register
Six wards, six councillors.
Downloads
Documents.
The fact sheet and prospectus are generated from the same data file that drives this site, so the documents and the pages never disagree.
Methodology
How every derived figure was calculated.
Published in full so the numbers can be checked and challenged rather than taken on trust.
Households and new household formation
The recorded population of 43,155 divided by the national average household size of 3.3 people from the 2022 census gives 13,077 households. Applying the observed settlement growth rate of 3.93 per cent gives roughly 514 new households a year.
Age bands
National 2022 census proportions applied to the recorded population: 30.54 per cent under 15 and 5.56 per cent over 65, with the urban working-age share of 71.4 per cent. The 15 to 35 share of 37.7 per cent is derived from the Kweneng East youth count of 124,561 against that district's population.
Growth rates
Compound annual rates from the census returns. 2001 to 2011 gives 15.0 per cent a year; 2011 to 2022 gives 3.93 per cent a year, against a national rate of 1.40 per cent over the same period.
Ward populations
The constituency total apportioned across the six wards in proportion to each ward's 2024 council poll, then households at the national average size. Ward figures sum exactly to 43,155. This is a proxy for relative ward size, not a ward-level enumeration.
Demand indicators
Each indicator is scored 0 to 100 against the national benchmark, where 50 is the national position and 100 is three times it. The basis for each score is printed beside it on the investment page.
Sector opportunity scores
Scored 0 to 100 weighting three factors equally: the size of the measured service gap, the growth rate of demand for that service, and how quickly capital can be deployed given land and regulatory conditions.
Derived figures are planning estimates built on published data. They are sound enough to size an opportunity and to brief a board, and they are not a substitute for a ward-level survey or a formal appraisal.
Sources
The full list.
Constituency profile and boundaries
2022 Delimitation Commission Report, Independent Electoral Commission of Botswana. Population 43,155, area 20 km², wholly urban, created from the former Mogoditshane constituency.
Election results
Botswana Press Agency, published by Daily News, 1 November 2024. Constituency result and the 31 October 2024 council results for all six wards, which also provide the ward poll weights used to apportion ward populations.
Population history
Census returns for Mogoditshane: 14,246 in 2001, 57,637 in 2011 and 88,098 in 2022, the largest village population in Botswana.
Regional context
2022 Population and Housing Census, Statistics Botswana: national population 2,359,609, average household size 3.3, urban share 66.5 per cent, Gaborone 246,325 at 1,258 per square kilometre, the metropolitan area 534,842, Francistown 103,417, and Kweneng East carrying 14 per cent of the national population.
Labour market
Quarterly Multi-Topic Survey, first quarter 2024, Statistics Botswana: national unemployment 27.6 per cent.
Parliamentary record
Daily News reporting on the Mogoditshane Sub-Land Board audit motion and on the Parliament budget debate, together with Hansard published by the Parliament of Botswana.
Investment analysis
Sector scores and demand indices on this site are derived as set out in the methodology above. Vienna Capital Group is the investment advisory partner and its brief supersedes these figures where the two differ.
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