context: Botswana is one of the greatest development success stories in the world. The countries are small and landlocked with about 1.9 million people and they were one of the poorest countries in Africa with a GDP of $ 70 per capita on independence from Britain in 1966. In the four decades after independence, Botswana moved itself To middle-income classes to become one of the fastest growing economies in the world with an average annual growth rate of about 9%.
question: What is the population of the Republic of Botswana?
answers.text: 1.9 million