- ISO 3166
NA- Primary locale
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.
At a glance
Each figure is drawn against the rest of the world, so a number means something before you have any other market to compare it with.
People online
1.8M
0%world median 81%100%
65% of 2.8M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. CLDR population multiplied by that share, so read it as an estimate rather than a headcount.
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 what people can spend, not what your product will earn.
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 it shifts toward another language.
What people speak
Shares count first and second languages, so they sum past 100% and one bilingual person is counted twice.
Most spoken in Namibia
share of 2.8M people
- Afrikaans75%2.1M
- Kuanyama35%981.3K
- Ndonga21%588.8K
- Nama11%308.4K
- Herero9%255.1K
- Englishofficial7%196.3K
- German0.9%25.2K
- Tswana0.6%15.7K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Every bar is drawn against the largest language rather than against 100%, so a 1% language stays visible.
One country understates a language. CLDR records diaspora too, so a language usually reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.
What you would ship
Configuration for day one, computed live with Intl.* against af-NA, the dominant locale for this market.
Plural categories
2
Standard. Use Intl.PluralRules for the few cases that matter.
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