Namibia

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Climate

Deserts

Population

Main article: Population of Africa

Migration

2021: Net outflow over 4 years

Overweight

Mortality

2022: Life expectancy - 58.1 years

2016: Number of deaths from opioid use disorders

Traffic safety

President

2024

Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwa is Namibia's first female president

A woman became president of Namibia for the first time: at the end of November 2024, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwa won the election. She will succeed Nangolo Mbumba. Read more here.

Death of President Hage Geingob

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.

Foreign policy

2023: Refusal to condemn Russia in Ukraine conflict

Economy

GDP $5,923 per person

Mining

2024: Billions of barrels of oil discovered

Namibia is preparing to become the world's newest oil point. By 2024, billions of barrels of oil were discovered on the shelf in Namibia. As drilling volumes grow, multibillion-dollar deals are being discussed.

2023

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

R&D

2020: R&D expenses - $81 million

Namibia IT Market

2022: More than 1 start-up

Agriculture

2019: Low use of pesticides in agriculture

Consumption

2023: Fish consumption is higher than meat consumption

2019: Low rice consumption: 10.2 kg per person per year

2018: Vegetable consumption - 25 kg per capita

Power

2020: Low per capita energy consumption

and

2019: Electrification rate 57%

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

In 2008-2009, a two-year experiment on the payment of Unconditional Basic Income (DB) 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

2023:40% of wheat supplies come from Russia and Ukraine

2022: US is the biggest export destination

Automobile traffic

Namibia is a left-handed country.

Education

2019: Percentage of people who can read

Health care

2021: Maternity leave

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2020

Duration of guaranteed paid sick leave 6 months or more

Part of the population defecates on the street

Crime

Prisons

2019: Minimum age of imprisonment for children - 7 years

2018: Number of prisoners per 100 thousand citizens

Sport

2022: The most popular sport is football

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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

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