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Namibia

 

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 Namibia
All information: Namibia
 		 United States
All information: United States
 
Area:824,290 km² 9,831,510 km²
Population:2,495,000 328,240,000

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Government

Government form:Presidential republic Federal presidential republic
Independent since:1990 n.Chr. 1776 n.Chr.
Capital:Windhoek Washington, D.C.


Population

Inhabitants per km²:3.0 33.4
Life expectancy males:60.4 years 76.1 years
Life expectancy females:66.2 years 81.1 years
Average age:21.2 years 37.4 years
Birthrate:28.64 ‰ 11.60 ‰
Deathrate:8.06 ‰ 8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:0.00 ‰ 3.00 ‰


Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
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Political stability:60 74
Civil rights:57 83
Health:29 74
Climate:74 64
Cost of Living:55 38
Popularity:15 85


Economy

Currency:Namibian Dollar (1 NAD = 100 Cents) US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:20.6 % 3.9 %
Inflation rate:3.72 % 1.81 %
Cost of Living:66.10 % 110.20 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:20.70 % 36.60 %
Average income:4,520 € 58,821 €
Corruption index:52 (moderate) 69 (moderate)
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Gross domestic product:11,046 Mio €4.43 M € 19,145,356 M €58.33 M €
Gross national product:11,281 Mio €4.52 M € 19,308,457 M €58.82 M €
Exported goods:4,065 M €1.63 M € 2,258,389 M €6.88 M €
Imported goods:5,167 M €2.07 M € 2,773,678 M €8.45 M €

Infrastructure

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Roadways:48,875 km19.59 km 6,586,610 km20.07 km
Railways:2,628 km1.05 km 293,564 km0.89 km
Harbours:120.005 3,6730.011
Airports:1120.045 13,5130.041


Energy balance

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Energy consumption:3.89 bn kWh1.56 m kWh 3,902.00 bn kWh11.89 m kWh
Energy production:1.40 bn kWh562,430.60 kWh 4,095.00 bn kWh12.48 m kWh
Energy export:88.00 m kWh35,277.19 kWh 9.70 bn kWh29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:3.07 bn kWh1.23 m kWh 72.72 bn kWh221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:4.23 m t1,694.93 t 5.01 bn t15,251.98 t


Telecommunication

International dialing:+264 +1
Internet domain:.na .us
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Landlines:139,69856 107,281,000327
Mobile phones:2,822,9431,132 422,000,0001,286
Internet server:78,28031 505,000,0001,539
Internet users:918,920368 290,488,378885



Healthcare system

Hospital beds/1000 inh.:2.70 2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:0.37 2.59
Diabetes sufferers:4.5 % 10.8 %
HIV sufferers:5.34 % 0.22 %
Tuberculosis sufferers:4.9 % 0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:86.0 % 79.0 %
Smokers:17.9 % 25.1 %

Climate

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Daytime temperatures:29.3 °C 18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:13.9 °C 7.3 °C
Relative humidity:41 % 67 %
Absolute humidity:8 g/m³ 9 g/m³
Rain days per year:39.6 85.2
Sunshine hours per day:7.2 7.2


Native languages

English:3.4 % 82.1 %
Ovambo:48.9 % n/a
Nama:11.3 % n/a
Spanish:n/a 10.7 %
Afrikaans:10.4 % n/a
Herero:8.6 % n/a
Kavango:8.5 % n/a
Caprivi:4.8 % n/a
San:1.9 % n/a
Chinese:n/a 0.9 %
French:n/a 0.7 %
German:n/a 0.6 %
Italian:n/a 0.6 %
Tagalog:n/a 0.4 %
Korean:n/a 0.3 %
Polish:n/a 0.3 %
Vietnamese:n/a 0.2 %
Japanese:n/a 0.2 %
Portuguese:n/a 0.2 %
Russian:n/a 0.2 %
other:2.2 % 2.6 %


Religions

Christianity:85.0 % 78.5 %
Native religions:14.0 % n/a
Jewry:n/a 1.8 %
Sikhism:n/a 1.6 %
Islam:n/a 1.1 %
Hinduism:n/a 1.0 %
Buddhism:n/a 0.7 %
other:1.0 % 15.3 %