Namibia

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
2,587,801 1
Urban
50.00% 1
Rural
50.00% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
3.8% 2
Level of Public Corruption
53 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
14 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 5
Fertility Rate
3.47 births per adult woman 6
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
4.50% 6
Life Expectancy at Birth
65 years 6
Adult Literacy Rate
76.49% 6
Internet Users
15% 6
Gross National Income per Capita
US$5,630 6
Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
22.6% 6
  • 1 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2018). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 Revision, Online Edition.
  • 2 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Trends in International Migrant Stock: The 2015 revision.
  • 3 United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Homicide Statistics 2015.
  • 4 Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index 2016.
  • 5 World Economic Forum, The Global Gender Gap Report, 2016.
  • 6 UNICEF, State of the World's Children, 2016.

These statistics are derived from the Vatican's official publication, Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022). The numbers may differ from data reported by other sources on this site.

Baptized Catholics
480,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
19.19
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
9,566
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
2,662
First Communions per Year
5,373
Confirmations per Year
3,087
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
7,851
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
2,965
Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
22
Church Marriages per Year
2,318
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
1,808
Priests
101
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
452
Catholics per Priest
4,757
Parishes
99
Mission Stations (no resident priests)
172
Catholic Hospitals
10
Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
4