Sr U’s Worldwide Travel - NAMIBIA

Imperial protectorate in 1884 and remained a German colony until the end of World War I. However, the port of Walvis Bay and the offshore Penguin Islands had been annexed by the Cape Colony under the British crown by 1878 and had become an integral part of the new Union of South Africa at its creation in 1910. In 1920, the League of Nations mandated the country to South Africa, which imposed its laws and, from 1948, its apartheid policy.

Uprisings and demands by African leaders led the UN to assume direct responsibility over the territory. It recognized the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) as the official representative of the Namibian people in 1973. Namibia, however, remained under South African administration during this time as South-West Africa. Following internal violence, South Africa installed an interim administration in Namibia in 1985. Namibia gained full independence from South Africa on 21 March 1990, following the Namibian War of Independence, with the exception of Walvis Bay and the Penguin Islands, which remained under South African control until 1994.

Namibia has a population of 2.1 million people and a stable multi-party parliamentary democracy. Agriculture, herding, tourism and the mining industry – including mining for gem diamonds, uranium, gold, silver, and base metals – form the basis of Namibia's economy. It is one of the few places in the world where diamonds are mined offshore at the bottom of the sea. Given the presence of the arid Namib Desert (considered to be the oldest desert in the world), it is one of the least densely populated countries in the world. Namibia enjoys high political, economic and social stability. Its capital and largest city is Windhoek.

From Wikipedia

NAMIBIA: The dry lands of Namibia were inhabited since early times by tribes of San, Damara, and Namaqua, and since about the 14th century AD by immigrating Bantu who came with the Bantu Expansion. Most of the territory became a German

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Sr U’s Worldwide Travel - NAMIBIA

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Country Namibia Angola Zambia Zimbabwe Botswana South Africa USA

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Country Motto: "Unity, liberty, justice" "Angola Avante" (Forward Angola) "One Zambia One Nation" "Unity, Freedom, Work" "Rain" "Unity in Diversity" "In God We Trust"

Independence: Germany 1990 Portugal 1975 UK 1964 UK 1980 UK 1966 UK 1961 UK 1776

Government: Republic Republic Republic Parlmt/Dem (Corrupt) Parlmt/Republic Republic Federal Republic

Area Sq Miles: 318,261 481,353 290,587 150,872 224,607 470,693 3,794,099

Size Relative to TX 1.2 x 1.8 x 1.1 x 0.6 x 0.8 x 1.8 x 14.1 x

Arable Land 1.0% 3.3% 4.5% 10.4% 0.5% 9.9% 16.3%

Population: 2,198,406 19,088,106 14,638,505 13,771,721 2,155,784 48,375,645 318,892,103

People per sq mi: 7 40 50 91 10 103 84

Pop Growth: 0.7% 2.8% 2.9% 4.4% 1.3% -0.5% 0.8%

Median Age: 22.8 17.9 16.7 20.2 22.9 25.7 37.6

Life Expectancy: 52 55 52 56 54 50 80

Adult HIV: 13.0% 2.3% 12.7% 14.7% 23.0% 17.9% 0.6%

Religious Makeup:80-90% Christian

10-20% Tribal Beliefs

53% Christian 47% Tribal Beliefs

95% Christian 3% Muslim

50% Syncretic 25% Christian

71% Christian 6% Badimo Tribal

80% Christian 1.5% Muslim

75% Christian 3.5% Jew+Mormon

0.6% Muslim

Ethnicity Makeup:50% Ovambo Tribe 38% Other African

6% European

37% Ovimbundu Tribe 60% Other African

1% European

86% African Tribal 14% Other

98% African Tribal <1%

European

79% Tswana Tribe 11% Kalanga

Tribe 7% European

79% African Tribal 9% European

9% Mixed

13% Black 15% Hispanic 65% European

Official Language(s) English (3.4%) (Oshiwambo 49%) Portuguese English (1.7%)

(16 Tribal-86%) English English (2%) (78% Setswana)

11 Official Languages (IsiZulu 23%

English 10%)

NO Official Language (English 82%, Spanish 11%)

Literacy age 15+: 89% 70% 61% 84% 85% 93% 99%

Avg School Yrs: 11 11 14 9 12 13 17

GDP Growth: 4.4% 5.6% 6.0% 3.2% 3.9% 2.0% 1.6%

Per Capita GDP: $8,200 $6,300 $1,800 $600 $16,400 $11,500 $52,800

Unemployment: 27% NA 14% 95% 18% 25% 7%

% Below Poverty: 29% 41% 61% 68% 30% 31% 15%

Inflation Rate: 6% 9% 7% 9% 6% 6% 2%

External Debt, $Billion $4 $23 $6 $8 $2 $139 $15,800

Debt as % of GDP: 27% 15% 32% 202% 18% 45% 72%

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

petroleum; diamonds, iron ore, phosphates, feldspar, bauxite,

uranium, and gold; cement; basic metal products; ship repair

copper mining and processing, emerald mining, construction,

foodstuffs, beverages, chemicals, textiles, fertilizer, horticulture

mining (coal, gold, platinum, copper, nickel, tin, diamonds, clay, numerous metallic and nonmetallic

ores), steel; cement, chemicals, fertilizer

diamonds, copper, nickel, salt, soda ash, potash, coal, iron ore, silver; livestock processing;

textiles

mining (world's largest producer of platinum, gold, chromium),

automobile assembly, metalworking, machinery, textiles,

iron and steel, chemicals

highly diversified, world leading, high-technology innovator,

petroleum, steel, motor vehicles, aerospace, telecommunications, chemicals, electronics, consumer

goods, lumber, mining

Natural Resouces: diamonds, copper, uranium, gold, silver, lead, tin, lithium, cadmium, tungsten, zinc, salt, hydropower,

fish

petroleum, diamonds, iron ore, phosphates, copper, feldspar, gold,

bauxite, uranium

copper, cobalt, zinc, lead, coal, emeralds, gold, silver, uranium,

hydropower

coal, chromium ore, asbestos, gold, nickel, copper, iron ore,

vanadium, lithium, tin, platinum group metals

diamonds, copper, nickel, salt, soda ash, potash, coal, iron ore,

silver

gold, chromium, antimony, coal, iron ore, rare earth elements,

uranium, gem diamonds, platinum, copper, salt, natural gas

coal, copper, lead, molybdenum, phosphates, rare earth elements, uranium, gold, iron, potash, silver,

zinc, petroleum, timber Data from CIA Factbook