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🇳🇦 Namibia
Republic of Namibia
NAM NA $ Namibian dollar (NAD)
Every statistic we track for Namibia — 139 indicators, each with its latest value and world rank. Open the interactive profile →
$12,666
65.4 yrs
4.78
0.52
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📈 Economy
👥 Demographics
| Fertility Rate (WB) | 3.2 | #50/217 | 2024 |
| Gender Inequality Index | 0.4 | #57/172 | 2023 |
| Median Age | 21.5 | #185/235 | 2026 |
| Population | 2.4 | #142/229 | 2013 |
| Population | 3.1 | #131/191 | 2026 |
| Population Density | 3.8 | #230/235 | 2026 |
| Refugees by Country of Origin | 685 | #110/195 | 2025 |
| Urban Population | 50.4% | #151/213 | 2024 |
🌐 Connectivity
| Access to Electricity | 59.3% | #187/214 | 2024 |
| Get News from the Internet (Afrobarometer) | 47.5% | #12/39 | 2023 |
| Internet Users | 64.9% | #131/182 | 2024 |
| Mobile Subscriptions | 100.6 | #136/209 | 2022 |
| Read News Online | 45.2% | #34/75 | 2024 |
🫀 Health
🎓 Education
| Adult Literacy | 87.6% | #23/31 | 2023 |
| Mean Years of Schooling | 6.9 | #113/146 | 2020 |
🌱 Environment
| CO₂ per Capita (WB) | 1.2 | #135/203 | 2024 |
| Energy Use per Person | 697 | #109/149 | 2023 |
| Environmental Performance Index | 44 | #99/179 | 2024 |
| Renewable Electricity | 97.6% | #11/195 | 2024 |
🏛️ Governance
📰 Media & news
| Press Freedom Index | 77 | #23/177 | 2026 |
🛡️ Safety
| Felt Unsafe in the Neighbourhood (Afrobarometer) | 57.4% | #16/39 | 2023 |
| Global Peace Index | 1.8 | #111/160 | 2025 |
| Homicide Rate | 34.4 | #7/204 | 2023 |
| Road Traffic Deaths | 22 | #30/195 | 2021 |
| Trust in the Police (Afrobarometer) | 62.8% | #7/39 | 2023 |
⚠️ Risk & resilience
| Climate Seen as a Threat | 85.3% | #81/142 | 2023 |
| Confident Can Protect Family | 43.5% | #81/142 | 2023 |
| Disaster Exposure (WRI) | 1.9 | #76/193 | 2026 |
| Experienced a Disaster | 50.9% | #18/142 | 2023 |
| Experienced Discrimination (Skin Colour) | 15.1% | #17/139 | 2023 |
| INFORM Risk Index | 4.3 | #77/191 | 2025 |
| Resilience to Risk (WRP) | 52.3 | #74/141 | 2023 |
| World Risk Index | 7.2 | #71/193 | 2026 |
| Worry About Violent Crime | 76.8% | #38/142 | 2023 |
😊 Wellbeing
| Happiness (Cantril Ladder) | 4.8 | #108/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Freedom | 0.7 | #131/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: GDP | 1.4 | #99/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Generosity | 0 | #129/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Healthy Life Expectancy | 0 | #143/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Low Corruption | 0.1 | #124/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Social Support | 1.4 | #56/147 | 2025 |
| Human Development Index | 0.7 | #136/193 | 2023 |
| Went Without a Cash Income (Afrobarometer) | 77.3% | #30/39 | 2023 |
| Went Without Enough Food (Afrobarometer) | 63.1% | #18/39 | 2023 |
🧭 Attitudes & values
| Attended a Demonstration | 15.2% | #36/151 | 2017 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Effective | 78.6% | #99/143 | 2018 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Safe | 83.5% | #51/143 | 2018 |
| China’s Influence Seen as Positive (Afrobarometer) | 56.9% | #30/39 | 2023 |
| Country Going in the Right Direction (Afrobarometer) | 23.9% | #28/39 | 2023 |
| Trade Union Membership | 14.4% | #44/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in Fellow Citizens (Afrobarometer) | 57.1% | #22/39 | 2023 |
| Trust in parliament | 6 | #13/151 | 2017 |
| Trust in Science | 52.8% | #130/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in Scientists | 45.8% | #130/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in the legal system | 6.2 | #23/153 | 2017 |
| US Influence Seen as Positive (Afrobarometer) | 64% | #21/39 | 2023 |
Latest available period per indicator. The rank counts down from the highest value, whatever that means for the series: on child mortality or extreme poverty the country at #1 is the worst in the world, not the best. Sources are credited on each indicator page.