Botswana's diamond exports stood at $290.9 million in August 2010, an increase of 360.3% from August 2009, IDEX Online reported, quoting data released today by the Bank of Botswana.

The report stated that Botswana's diamond exports for the first eight months of 2010 comprised $1.83 billion, 60.3% more than the corresponding period last year, despite lower exports in June and July 2010.

In 2009, according to the Kimberley Process Annual Global Summary, Botswana exported 17.7 million carats of diamonds with a total value of $1.43 billion, a figure already surpassed this year according to the Bank of Botswana numbers.