Namibia
65 figures for Namibia, each the latest the source has. Pick one to see how Namibia compares.
Economy
- GDP per person $4,876 (2025)
- GDP per person, price-adjusted $11,986 (2025)
- Economic growth +1.7% (2025)
- Unemployment 19.3% (2025)
- Inflation +4.2% (2024)
- Exports 41.1% (2024)
- Income per person $10,916 (2023)
- Household wealth 54.2 (2016)
- Poorer households 51.0% (2016)
- Wealth inequality 0.31 (2016)
- Women in paid work 41.0% (2016)
People
- Population 2.96 million (2023)
- Population growth +2.05% (2025)
- Births per woman 3.21 (2024)
- Typical age 21.0 (2023)
- Living in cities 50.9% (2025)
- Human Development Index 0.665 (2023)
- Women’s vs men’s development 1.011 (2023)
- People per household 6.2 (2016)
- People over 65 5.5% (2016)
- Children under 15 37.5% (2016)
- Women’s age at first marriage 24.0 (2016)
- Mothers’ age at first birth 20.9 (2016)
Health
- Life expectancy 67.4 (2023)
- Child deaths (under 5) 39.5 (2024)
- Mothers dying in childbirth 139 (2023)
- Health spending per person $397 (2023)
- Measles vaccination 79% (2024)
- Overweight adults 36.5% (2022)
- Stunted children 17.5% (2016)
- Overweight children 4.9% (2016)
- Homes with piped water 51.8% (2016)
- Homes with a flush toilet 47.3% (2016)
Education
- Years of schooling 7.3 (2023)
- Expected years in school 11.8 (2023)
- Secondary school enrollment 81.6% (2023)
- Education spending 9.4% (2022)
- Teens in school 89.0% (2016)
Environment
- CO₂ per person 1.14 (2024)
- Total CO₂ emissions 3.47 million (2024)
- Forest cover 7.8% (2023)
- Air pollution (PM2.5) 15.5 (2024)
- Renewable energy share 30.0% (2021)
- Average temperature 22.1 (2022)
Energy
- Energy use per person 697 (2023)
- Access to electricity 59.3% (2024)
- Renewable electricity 97.6% (2024)
- Nuclear electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Coal electricity 2.4% (2024)
- Cooking with wood or dung 52.2% (2016)
Technology
- Internet users 64.9% (2024)
- Mobile phone subscriptions 100.6 (2022)
- Home broadband 3.3 (2022)
- Homes with internet 9.2% (2017)
- Homes with a mobile phone 99.9% (2016)
Food and farming
- Hunger 18.1% (2023)
- Cereal yield 451 (2023)
- Farmland 47.1% (2023)
- Jobs in farming 22.3% (2025)
Government
- Electoral democracy 0.63 (2025)
- Human rights 0.88 (2025)
- Control of corruption +0.15 (2025)
- Women in parliament 42.3% (2025)
- Military spending 2.7% (2024)
- Clean government 64.0 (2022)