Namibia
Republic of Namibia
- Region
- Africa · Southern Africa
- Capital
- Windhoek
- Population
- 3,092,816 (2025)
- Government
- presidential republic
- Currencies
- Namibian dollar (NAD), South African rand (ZAR)
- Official languages
- Afrikaans, English, German, Herero, Khoekhoe, Kwangali, Lozi, Ndonga, Tswana
- Spoken languages
- Oshiwambo languages 49.7%, Nama/Damara 11%, Kavango languages 10.4%, Afrikaans 9.4%, Herero languages 9.2%, Zambezi languages 4.9%, English (official) 2.3%, other African languages 1.5%
- Written scripts
- Latin
- Area
- 825,615 km²
- Coastline
- Coastal
- UN member
- Yes
- Affiliations
- African Union, IMF, SADC, WCO, WTO
- Borders
- Angola , Botswana , South Africa , Zambia
Political stability
75 / 100
Economic stability
56 / 100
Population stability
54 / 100
0–100, higher is more stable. Political: World Bank governance score. Economic: government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and inflation proximity to 2% (World Bank). Population: stability of growth and net migration rates (World Bank).
Trade profile
- Key exports
- gold, diamonds, radioactive chemicals, fish, refined petroleum (2023)
- Key imports
- refined petroleum, copper ore, ships, electricity, trucks (2023)
- Natural resources
- diamonds, copper, uranium, gold, silver, lead, tin, lithium, cadmium, tungsten, zinc, salt
- Critical minerals
- Major uranium supplier.
- Luxury goods
- diamonds
- Primary route
- Durban and Cape corridor to Asia and Europe
- Secondary route
- Regional overland corridors to inland markets
The xin.bz view
- Namibia’s Orange Basin keeps drawing majors — Equinor joining Chevron and QatarEnergy on an offshore licence — extending Africa’s Atlantic energy frontier south, while the SADC outlook leaves it on the drier side of the split.
xin.bz coverage
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Trade research
- WTO trade profile — tariffs, trade in goods and services, top partners
- World Bank country data — GDP, trade share of GDP, logistics indicators
- OEC trade profile — export/import composition and partners, visualized
- ITC Trade Map — detailed trade statistics by product (ITC/UN Comtrade)
- CIA World Factbook — geography, economy, transportation infrastructure
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Sources: mledoze/countries (ODbL), CIA World Factbook (public domain), World Bank Open Data (CC BY-4.0), flag-icons (MIT). Stability scores are xin.bz composites of the cited World Bank indicators; routes and commodity notes are xin.bz assessments. Informational only — verify with official sources.