What is the price of pork per kilogram/pound in Botswana today?
The retail price range for Botswana pork is between US$ 4.77 and US$ 11.44 per kilogram or between US$ 2.16 and US$ 5.19 per pound(lb). Click here to see today's exact prices of pork in Botswana
The retail price range in Pula for pork is between BWP 64.39 and BWP 154.54 per kilogram or between BWP 29.20 and BWP 70.09 per pound(lb) in Gaborone and Francistown.
Wholesale prices
In 2025, the approximate wholesale price range for Botswana pork is between US$ 3.34 and US$ 8.01 per kilogram or between US$ 1.51 and US$ 3.63 per pound(lb).
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Botswana Pork Export Prices - Historical, Trends and Prediction
The export price of Pork from Botswana over the last five years has seen a steady decline. In 2015, the price per kilogram was 1.84 US dollars, and in 2019, it had dropped to 1.10 US dollars. The lowest price was recorded in 2013, when it was 0.80 US dollars per kilogram. The price has been increasing since then, with the highest price of 4.88 US dollars per kilogram recorded in 2017. The current price is 2.35 US dollars per kilogram. Predicted prices for 2023 and 2024 are 2.20 US dollars and 2.05 US dollars per kilogram respectively.The Botswana pork exports are classified as:
- Prepared or preserved meat and offal of swine, incl. mixtures (excluding hams, shoulders and cuts thereof, sausages and similar products, finely homogenised preparations put up for retail sale as infant food or for dietetic purpose, in containers of a net weight of <= 250 g, preparations of liver and meat extracts and juices) (HS code 160249)
- Frozen hams, shoulders and cuts thereof of swine, with bone in (HS code 020322)
- Fresh or chilled edible offal of swine (HS code 020630)
- Edible offal of swine, frozen (excluding livers) (HS code 020649)
- Fresh or chilled meat of swine (excluding carcases and half-carcases, and hams, shoulders and cuts thereof, with bone in) (HS code 020319)
- Frozen carcases and half-carcases of swine (HS code 020321)
- Fresh or chilled carcases and half-carcases of swine (HS code 020311)
- Frozen meat of swine (excluding carcases and half-carcases, and hams, shoulders and cuts thereof, with bone in) (HS code 020329)
- Fresh or chilled hams, shoulders and cuts thereof of swine, with bone in (HS code 020312)
- Frozen edible livers of swine (HS code 020641)
- Prepared or preserved shoulders and cuts thereof, of swine (HS code 160242)
- Meat of swine, salted, in brine, dried or smoked (excluding hams, shoulders and cuts thereof, with bone in, and bellies and cuts thereof) (HS code 021019)
Botswana Pork Import Prices - Historical, Trends and Prediction
The import price per kilogram of Pork into Botswana over the last five years has been relatively stable. In 2017, the price was at its highest at 4.88 US $ per kg, before dropping to 2.39 US $ per kg in 2018. The price then decreased further to 1.10 US $ per kg in 2019, before increasing to 2.35 US $ per kg in 2021. Based on this trend, it is likely that the import price per kilogram of Pork into Botswana in 2023 will be around 2.50 US $ per kg, and in 2024 it will be around 2.65 US $ per kg.Export values for Botswana pork
The total values in export for pork in Botswana were US$ 816, US$ 4,448, US$ 3,328 and US$ 1,408 in US dollar thousand for the years 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 in that order.
Prices of other produce in the Meat category in Botswana: Mutton, Goat Meat, Horse Meat, Chicken Meat, Turkey Meat, Duck Meat, Geese Meat, Guinea Fowls Meat, Rabbit Meat & Frog Legs.
See prices of pork in other countries across Africa: Algeria pork, Angola pork, Botswana pork, Burundi pork, Cameroon pork, Cape Verde pork, Central African Republic pork, Comoros pork, DRC Congo pork & Benin pork.
Botswana pork - Production, Exports, Imports, Seasons and HS Codes
In 2019 Botswana sold 1,264 tonnes of pork. In 2019 alone, the demand for Botswana pork (meat category) has gone down, flactuating by -9.195 percent compared to the year 2018. Between 2017 and 2019, pork's exports grew by 38.6 pc netting the country US$1.41m for the year 2019. Botswana's pork exports are categorised as:
- Prepared or preserved meat and offal of swine, incl. mixtures (excluding hams, shoulders and cuts thereof, sausages and similar products, finely homogenised preparations put up for retail sale as infant food or for dietetic purpose, in containers of a net weight of <= 250 g, preparations of liver and meat extracts and juices) (HS code 160249)
- Fresh or chilled hams, shoulders and cuts thereof of swine, with bone in (HS code 020312)
- Fresh or chilled meat of swine (excluding carcases and half-carcases, and hams, shoulders and cuts thereof, with bone in) (HS code 020319)
- Fresh or chilled carcases and half-carcases of swine (HS code 020311)
- Fresh or chilled edible offal of swine (HS code 020630)
- Edible offal of swine, frozen (excluding livers) (HS code 020649)
- Frozen meat of swine (excluding carcases and half-carcases, and hams, shoulders and cuts thereof, with bone in) (HS code 020329)
- Frozen edible livers of swine (HS code 020641)
- Prepared or preserved shoulders and cuts thereof, of swine (HS code 160242)
- Frozen hams, shoulders and cuts thereof of swine, with bone in (HS code 020322)
- Meat of swine, salted, in brine, dried or smoked (excluding hams, shoulders and cuts thereof, with bone in, and bellies and cuts thereof) (HS code 021019)
- Frozen carcases and half-carcases of swine (HS code 020321)
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Botswana pork export values
In 2019, Botswana supplied pork valued at 1.41m USD, a drop of -57.63% from 2018's total pork export of 3.328m USD. The annual reduction in value of Botswana pork between 2017 to 2018 was -25.18 percent.
The per year change in the volume of Botswana's pork exports between 2017 and 2019 was 38.6 percent compared to a variation of -9.195% in the period between 2018 and 2019.
Export markets for Botswana pork ( in '000$ )
Botswana's best performing destinations for pork are United Kingdom (UK), South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia and DRC Congo.
Botswana brought in 13,536 tonnes of pork in 2019.