Even if that were true (I doubt it), Botswana remains way behind on economic prospects for the average individual, the core issue when we talk about development.

> Based on these estimates, 17.2 percent of the population in Botswana (446 thousand people in 2021) is multidimensionally poor, while an additional 19.7 percent is classified as vulnerable to multidimensional poverty (509 thousand people in 2021).

https://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/Country-Profiles/MP...