Does Botswana have mandatory military service?
No conscription
No conscription
Botswana is one of 123 countries classified “No conscription” for military conscription — 64% of the 192 with data. (Also searched as the draft, national service.)
Source
- Taken from
- Wikipedia: Conscription
- Last checked
- 15 September 2026
- How it was classified
- Read directly from the source’s own table, without interpretation.
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- Death Penalty
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- Restrictive
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