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Main language + region
af-NA
Currency
NAD · Namibian Dollar
Region
not grouped

Namibia

Namibia has 2.8M people, and 1.8M of them are online. Afrikaans is the most widely spoken language at 75%, one of 8 languages CLDR lists here. English is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to af-NA.

English

Market summary

Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.

People online

1.8M

0%world median 81%100%

65% of 2.8M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.

Income per person

$4,876

Higher than 34% of 213 territories

GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to spending power, not revenue.

Can pay online

73%

0%world median 71%100%

Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2024. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.

Languages

8

Afrikaans 75% · Kuanyama 35% · Ndonga 21%

Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.

English proficiency

—

Not in the EF EPI 2025 table. Absent is not the same as low.

Adult literacy

89%

0%world median 95%100%

Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before another language.

What people speak

Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.

Most spoken in Namibia

share of 2.8M people

Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%.

CLDR records Afrikaans in 3 territories and 10M speakers in total; Namibia holds 21% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Afrikaans profile maps the whole footprint.

Day-one requirements

What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (af-NA).

Plural categories

2

Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".

Script family

Latin

Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.

Reading direction

Left-to-right

Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.

Date

21 April 2026

Short: 2026-04-21

Time

6:30 nm.

Week starts Mon

Currency

$1 234,56

1,234.56 in NAD · Namibian Dollar