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Namibia

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Government

2024: Namibian president dies

On February 3, 2024, Namibian President Hage Geingob died. He was 82 years old. He died in the hospital of the capital Windhoek. Read more here.

Climate

Deserts

Sand dunes meet the dry bottom of the lake. Namib Desert, Namibia.

Population

Main article: Population of Africa

Migration

2021: Net outflow over 4 years

Overweight

Overweight among adults in Africa, 2016

Mortality

Number of deaths from opioid use disorders per 100,000 people (2016)

Traffic safety

The number of deaths on the roads per 100 thousand vehicles. Data for 2018

Foreign policy

2023: Refusal to condemn Russia in Ukraine conflict

UN voting results

Economy

GDP $5,923 per person

Mining

2022: World No. 3 in uranium mining with 5,600 tons

Data for 2022

R&D

2020: R&D expenses - $81 million

R&D expenses, as of 2020

Namibia IT Market

2022: More than 1 start-up

Data for 2019-2022

Agriculture

2019: Low use of pesticides in agriculture

As of 2019

Consumption

Meat

2023: Fish consumption is higher than meat consumption
The most consumed type of meat (including fish and seafood) according to data available for June 2023.

Vegetables

2018: Vegetable consumption - 25 kg per capita
Потребление овощей в countries Africa, kg per capita population in 2018

Power

2020: Energy consumption per capita

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Energy consumption per capita, including electricity, transport heating in 2019-2020

2919: Electrification

Доступ к электричеству в countries Africa (2019)

Unconditional basic income: distribution of money to the population

2020: Discussing the launch of payments across the country

Since February 2020, the Ministry of Poverty Eradication of Namibia is again exploring the possibility of returning the BBD - but now throughout the country.

Prosperous Namibia is called "African Switzerland" for a reason. At least half of the budget is spent on the social sphere here. However, this South African country still has plenty of ulcers. Up to 70% of the land is still controlled by white farmers - descendants of German and South African colonists, as long as up to 40% of the population huddles in slums without minimal amenities. Unemployment in the country is also monstrous and does not fall below 40%. It is not surprising that salaries, pensions and benefits are always at the center of election campaigns and parliamentary discussions.

Fearing a social explosion and the effects of a three-year recession, the government is still leaning toward the BDB. True, the authorities have changed their priorities: the BBD in the amount of $250N will receive not all in a row, but the unemployed from 30 to 59 years old. Which, of course, is very cunning: the bulk of the unemployed are young people under 30. And in fact, this is no longer a BBD, but a manual.

Be that as it may, any BBD for Namibia is not some fantastic numbers. The fact is that its main population is succulents and desert insects, only 2.4 million people live there. According to ministerial sources, the current BBD project will cost taxpayers $3.6 billion, and 1.2 million citizens will become beneficiaries. In general, 1.36% of the country's GDP will go to the DB. For comparison, it takes 3.2 billion N $ to pay pensions (and this is N $1.3 thousand/month. for 214 thousand people). The universal children's allowance in the amount of 250N $ receives more than 800 thousand citizens (and this is 2.4 billion a year).

In short, the numbers are comparable, and the tax system, despite the reforms of à la Michoustine, does not function at full capacity. So potential sources of budget revenues are very large.

Of course, the conservative white community and its lobby are sharply opposed, supporters of the BBD are called populists and lazy. But pensions have doubled in recent years and no problems have arisen, and the coming crisis and ongoing economic contraction only reinforce the growing demand for social democracy.

2008: Two-year experiment in two villages

V 2008-2009, a two-year experiment on the payment of Unconditional Basic Income (DBD) was implemented in Namibia.

For 24 months - from 2008 to 2009 - in the remote villages of Ochivero and Omitaro, residents under 60 years old were paid from private funds for 100 Namibian dollars a month.

In the evaluation of the BBD pilot project, the national press was divided. There were critics and sympathizers. Thus, the right-wing conservative Allgemeine Zeitung categorically wrote that "no changes were noticed in Ochivero." But residents turned out to be of a different opinion.

Judging by the stories and interviews of the inhabitants of Ochivero and Omitaro, in two years the modest desert settlements tripled, their inhabitants moved from plastic hibaras to decent houses, child malnutrition decreased to a minimum. Small businesses developed - bakeries, sewing, brick workshops, school attendance increased, theft, robbery, poaching and other typical "crimes of the poor" decreased.

But after 2009, everything ended, and the residents of Ochivero received the last payments in 2012. Soon after a small business went bankrupt, young people lost their jobs, and the district was covered with old metastases of disadvantage: for example, disgusting breweries - shebeens - again bred in the district. And they paid, by the way, nothing at all: 100N $ is about 15USD or 10 €.

In general, since then, from year to year, discussions have been going on about the return of the project, and the government has been discussing it over and over again.

Foreign trade

2022: US is the biggest export destination

According to data available for August 2023.

Education

2019: Percentage of people who can read

Share of African Population Who Can Read, 2019

Health care

2021: Maternity leave

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Число недель оплачиваемого maternity leave countries around the world for 2021

2020: Part of the population defecates on the street

494 млн людей на To the earth defecate on the street. Share of such population by country for 2020

Crime

Prisons

2019: Minimum age of imprisonment for children - 7 years

Data for 2019

2018: Number of prisoners per 100 thousand citizens

World Prison Brief data for 2018

Sport

2022: The most popular sport is football

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Самый популярный вид sport countries of the world to to data June 2022

History

1946: UN rejects SAS request to include South West Africa in its membership

After World War II the newly created United Nations rejected the request of the South African Union to include South-West Africa in its composition. In response YUASA , he refused the proposal UN to replace the mandate of the dissolved League of Nations with a new one providing for international monitoring of the administration of the territory.

1915: SAS occupies German colony South West Africa

In 1915, during the First World War, the troops of the Union of South Africa (South Africa, since 1961 - South Africa) occupied the German colony of South-West Africa. Following the conclusion of the war, the League of Nations gave the SAS a mandate to administer the territory.

1914

Map of Africa in 1914

Calendar

Какой день считается первым в неделе в countries of the world, 2022