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Namibia
Republic of Namibia
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EconomyNamibia
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Economy - overview:
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The economy is heavily dependent on the extraction and processing of minerals for export. Mining accounts for 8% of GDP, but provides more than 50% of foreign exchange earnings. Rich alluvial diamond deposits make Namibia a primary source for gem-quality diamonds. Namibia is the fourth-largest exporter of nonfuel minerals in Africa, the world's fifth-largest producer of uranium, and the producer of large quantities of lead, zinc, tin, silver, and tungsten. The mining sector employs only about 3% of the population while about half of the population depends on subsistence agriculture for its livelihood. Namibia normally imports about 50% of its cereal requirements; in drought years food shortages are a major problem in rural areas. A high per capita GDP, relative to the region, hides one of the world's most unequal income distributions. The Namibian economy is closely linked to South Africa with the Namibian dollar pegged one-to-one to the South African rand. Increased payments from the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) put Namibia's budget into surplus in 2007 for the first time since independence, but SACU payments will decline after 2008 as part of a new revenue sharing formula. Increased fish production and mining of zinc, copper, uranium, and silver spurred growth in 2003-07, but growth in recent years was undercut by poor fish catches and high costs for metal inputs.

GDP (purchasing power parity):
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$11.23 billion (2008 est.)
$10.87 billion (2007)
$10.45 billion (2006)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars

GDP - per capita (PPP):
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$5,400 (2008 est.)
$5,300 (2007 est.)
$5,100 (2006 est.)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars

GDP (official exchange rate):
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$7.781 billion (2008 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:
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3.3% (2008 est.)
4.1% (2007 est.)
7.1% (2006 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
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agriculture: 10.4%
industry: 36.2%
services: 53.4% (2008 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
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27.4% of GDP (2008 est.)

Population below poverty line:
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the UNDP's 2005 Human Development Report indicated that 34.9% of the population live on $1 per day and 55.8% live on $2 per day

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
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lowest 10%: 0.5%
highest 10%: 64.5% (2003)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
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70.7 (2003)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
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10.3% (2008 est.)

Central bank discount rate:
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10.5% (31 December 2007)

Commercial bank prime lending rate:
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12.88% (31 December 2007)

Stock of money:
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$2.149 billion (31 December 2007)

Stock of money - per capita:
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1,020 USD per capita

Stock of quasi money:
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$1.493 billion (31 December 2007)

Stock of quasi money - per capita:
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709 USD per capita

Stock of domestic credit:
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$4.446 billion (31 December 2007)

Stock of domestic credit - per capita:
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2,109 USD per capita

Labor force:
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667,000 (2008 est.)

Labor force participation rate:
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31.63 % of population

Labor force - by occupation:
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agriculture: 47%
industry: 20%
services: 33% (1999 est.)

Unemployment rate:
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5% (2008 est.)

Budget:
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revenues: $2.668 billion
expenditures: $2.896 billion (2008 est.)

Budget revenues per capita:
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1,266 USD per capita

Public debt:
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24.8% of GDP (2008 est.)

Industries:
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meatpacking, fish processing, dairy products; mining (diamonds, lead, zinc, tin, silver, tungsten, uranium, copper)

Industrial production growth rate:
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6.5% (2008 est.)

Electricity - production:
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1.606 billion kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - production per capita:
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762 kWh per capita

Electricity - consumption:
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3.194 billion kWh (2006 est.)

Electricity - consumption - per capita:
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1,515 kWh per capita

Electricity - exports:
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40 million kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - imports:
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1.948 billion kWh; note - electricity supplied by South Africa (2006 est.)

Oil - production:
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0 bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil - production per capita:
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void

Oil - consumption:
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19,840 bbl/day (2006 est.)

Oil - consumption - per capita:
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3.43 bbl/year per capita

Oil - exports:
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0 bbl/day (2005)

Oil - imports:
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17,750 bbl/day (2005)

Oil - proved reserves:
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0 bbl (1 January 2006 est.)

Natural gas - production:
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0 cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - production per capita:
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void

Natural gas - consumption:
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0 cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - consumption - per capita:
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void

Natural gas - exports:
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0 cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - imports:
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0 cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - proved reserves:
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62.29 billion cu m (1 January 2008 est.)

Agriculture - products:
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millet, sorghum, peanuts, grapes; livestock; fish

Current account balance:
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$326 million (2008 est.)

Current account balance - per capita:
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155 USD per capita

Exports:
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$2.98 billion f.o.b. (2008 est.)

Exports per capita:
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1,414 USD per capita

Exports - commodities:
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diamonds, copper, gold, zinc, lead, uranium; cattle, processed fish, karakul skins

Exports - partners:
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void

Imports:
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$3.56 billion f.o.b. (2008 est.)

Imports per capita:
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1,689 USD per capita

Imports - commodities:
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foodstuffs; petroleum products and fuel, machinery and equipment, chemicals

Imports - partners:
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void

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
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$1.375 billion (31 December 2008 est.)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold - per capita:
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653 USD per capita

Debt - external:
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$1.151 billion (31 December 2008 est.)

Debt - external - per capita:
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546 USD per capita

Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:
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$NA

Stock of direct foreign investment - at home - per capita:
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void

Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:
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$NA

Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad - per capita:
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void

Market value of publicly traded shares:
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$702 million (31 December 2007)

Market value of publicly traded shares - per capita:
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333 USD per capita

Economic aid - donor:
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void

Economic aid - recipient:
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ODA, $123.4 million (2005 est.)

Economic aid - recipient per capita:
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59 USD per capita

Currency (code):
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Namibian dollar (NAD); South African rand (ZAR)

Exchange rates:
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Namibian dollars (NAD) per US dollar - 7.75 (2008 est.), 7.18 (2007), 6.7649 (2006), 6.3593 (2005), 6.4597 (2004)

Fiscal year:
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1 April - 31 March
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