Namibia

  • President:Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah
  • Prime Minister:Elijah Ngurare
  • Capital city:Windhoek
  • Languages:Oshiwambo languages 48.9%, Nama/Damara 11.3%, Afrikaans 10.4% (common language of most of the population and about 60% of the white population), Otjiherero languages 8.6%, Kavango languages 8.5%, Caprivi languages 4.8%, English (official) 3.4%, other African languages 2.3%, other 1.7% note: Namibia has 13 recognized national languages, including 10 indigenous African languages and 3 Indo-European languages (2011 est.)
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  • National statistics office
  • Population, persons:3,062,109 (2025)
  • Area, sq km:823,290
  • GDP per capita, US$:4,168 (2023)
  • GDP, billion current US$:12.4 (2023)
  • GINI index:59.1 (2015)
  • Ease of Doing Business rank:104
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    • February 2024
      Source: African Development Bank Group
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      Accessed On: 19 February, 2024
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      This dataset contains data for the African countries and aggregate countries such as crude oil producers ; Sub-Saharan Africa. Data is organized under sixteen socio-economic chapters such as prices, energy, agriculture, social and AFDB aggregates which covers country scores in regional integration, social protection among others.
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    • March 2022
      Source: The Africa Information Highway
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      Accessed On: 11 July, 2022
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      Data cited at: https://dataportal.opendataforafrica.org/rtufdnc/social This Dataset describes the list of common indicators from census datasets of African countries.
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    • March 2024
      Source: United Nations Development Programme
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      Accessed On: 10 April, 2024
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      Data Cited at: UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME, Human Development Data Center The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary measure of achievements in three key dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, access to knowledge and a decent standard of living. The HDI is the geometric mean of normalized indices for each of the the three dimensions.
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    • June 2025
      Source: World Bank
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      Accessed On: 01 July, 2025
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      The primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates