Namibia is located in southern Africa. Its economy relies heavily on mining and tourism. Mining contributes 25% of GDP, especially from diamonds, copper, gold, zinc, and uranium. Tourism is also a major industry, accounting for 14.5% of GDP. Agriculture employs many Namibians but only contributes around 9.5% to GDP due to the arid climate. The population is diverse and includes the Ovambo, Kavango, Herero, and Bushmen peoples, each with their own traditions and languages.

1. NAMIBIA
BY: JOHANNES JORDAN
&
SINDIMBA S PINDUKENI

3. Country Profile
Country: Namibia
Capital City: Windhoek
Currency: Namibian Dollar
Official language: English.
Others languages: German,
Afrikaans, Rukwangali, Silozi,
Setswana, Damara, Herero
and Oshiwambo.
1USD= N$13.96

4. Economy
GDP:$25,990,000,000.00 (USD)
GDP (Per Capita): $11,800.00 (USD)
Export Commodities: main exports are diamonds, copper, gold, zinc, lead, and uranium.
Import Commodities: major imports include foods, petroleum products and fuel.
GDP by sector: agriculture: 9.5%, mining: 12.5%, manufacturing: 15.4% (2018), Tourism:
14.5%
Inflation (CPI): 7.1% (2017) • Population below poverty line: 34.9% of the population live
on $1 per day and 55.8% live on $2 per day • Labour force: 955,745
Labour force by occupation: agriculture: 47%, industry: 25.8%, services: 67.6% (2017
est.)

5. Economy Cont…
Main industries: meatpacking, fish processing, dairy products;
mining (diamonds, lead, zinc, tin, silver, tungsten, uranium, copper)
Exports $2.04 billion f.o.b. (2005 est.)
Export goods: diamonds, copper, gold, zinc, lead, uranium; cattle,
processed fish, karakul skins
Imports $2.35 billion f.o.b. (2005 est.) •
Import goods: foodstuffs; petroleum products and fuel, machinery
and equipment, chemicals

6. Education
Primary Education
The Namibian education system has been evolving since the nation achieved
independence.
Middle Education
Secondary education takes place in Namibia in 2 phases, of which the first 3 years are
spent in a middle school environment and culminate in the junior secondary school
certificate examination
Secondary Education
The final 2 years of secondary school are optional and paid for, and this education is
mainly available only in urban areas.

7. Education cont…
Vocational Education
The Namibian government is in the process of rebuild its vocational training
centers so as to make a more meaningful contribution to trade and industry. This
includes developing a wide variety of unit standards to ensure that a competent,
job-ready worker is produced.
Tertiary Education
There are 2 general tertiary education institutions in Namibia (and a further 3
specialized ones) namely the Namibia University of Science and Technology
(NUST) and the University of Namibia. While the former admits students with a
qualifying Grade 12 Certificate, the latter is more restrictive.

8. Agriculture
Agriculture in Namibia contributes around 9.5% of the national Gross Domestic Product
though 25% to 40% of Namibians depend on subsistence agriculture and herding. Primary
products included livestock and meat products, crop farming and forestry.
Only 2% of Namibia's land receives sufficient rainfall to grow crops. As all inland rivers are
ephemeral, irrigation is only possible in the valleys of the border rivers Orange, Kunene, and
Kavango river.
Although Namibian agriculture--excluding fishing--contributed between 9.5% and 12% of
Namibia's GDP, a large percentage of the Namibian population depends on agricultural
activities for livelihood, mostly in the subsistence sector. Animal products, live animals, and
crop exports constituted roughly 10.7% of total Namibian exports.
The government encourages local sourcing of agriculture products. Retailers of fruits,
vegetables, and other crop products must purchase 27.5% of their stock from local farmers.

9. Agriculture Cont…
 In the largely white-dominated commercial sector, agriculture
consists primarily of livestock ranching. There are about 4,000
commercial farms in Namibia, 3,000 of which are owned by whites.
Cattle raising is predominant in the central and northern regions,
while karakul sheep and goat farming are concentrated in the more
arid southern regions.
Subsistence farming is mainly confined to the "communal lands" of
the country's populous north, where roaming cattle herds are
prevalent and the main crops are millet, sorghum, corn, and peanuts.
Table grapes, grown mostly along the Orange River in the country's
arid south, are becoming an increasingly important commercial crop
and a significant employer of seasonal labor.

10. Mining
Mining is the biggest contributor to Namibia's economy in terms of
revenue.
It accounts for 25% of the country's income. Its contribution to the gross
domestic product is also very important and makes it one of the largest
economic sectors of the country. The majority of revenue (12.5% of GDP)
comes from diamond mining. ,
Diamond.
Copper.
Lead and Zinc .
Cement .
 Uranium.

11. Fishery
The clean, cold South Atlantic waters off the coast of Namibia
are home to some of the richest fishing grounds, with the
potential for sustainable yields of 1.5 million metric tones per
year.
 Commercial fishing and fish processing is the fastest-growing
sector of the Namibian economy in terms of employment,
export earnings, and contribution to GDP.
 The main species found in abundance of Namibia are:
pilchards (sardines), anchovy, hake, and horse mackerel, Sole,
squid, deep-sea crab, rock lobster, tuna fish.

12. Tourism
Tourism is a major contributor (14.5%) to Namibia's GDP, creating tens of
thousands of jobs (18.2% of all employment).
 There are many lodges and reserves to accommodate eco-tourists. Sport
Hunting is also a large, and growing component of the Namibian economy,
accounting for 14% of total tourism in the recently years or $19.6 million
US dollars, with Namibia boasting numerous species sought after by
international sport hunters.
 extreme sports such as sandboarding, skydiving and 4x4ing have become
popular, and many cities have companies that provide tours.
The most visited places include the Caprivi Strip, Fish River Canyon,
Sossusvlei, the Skeleton Coast Park, Sesriem, Etosha Pan and the coastal
towns of Swakopmund, Walvis Bay and Lüderitz etc.

13. Tourism cont…

14. People and Culture
The Ovambo (Ambo or Aawambo) are a Bantu ethnic group in
Namibia and Angola. The Ovambo people are approximately one million
people, including 713 000 in Namibia.
The Ovambo alone constitute half the population of Namibia. Most live in
the north, near the border with Angola (Ovamboland), living on both Across
the Kunene River which forms the border between the two countries and
up to Kavango, where they practice the agriculture and cattle ranching.
They are also very active in the Namibian capital, Windhoek. They consist
of 7 distinct tribes. The most numerous are the Kwanyama, the Ndongo,
and the Kwambi Kafima.

15. Kavango
The Kavangos are an ethnic group in northern Namibia, living near the border with
Angola. Numbering about 120,000, they represent 9.3% of the population in the
early 2000s.
The Kavangos form the second largest ethnic group in the country. They mainly live
in the north to the border with Angola.
They are traditionally farmers, fishermen and wood carvers. Divided into five
kingdoms, Kavangos arrived in Namibia in the sixteenth century with the push Bantu
in South West Africa. Each of these kingdoms Kavangos is headed by a Hompa or
fumu.
It is a matriarchal society and Christian like the Ovambo. Their language is
RuKwangali Kavango territory but each is a particular dialect. Only RuKwangali is
written. During the civil war in Angola in 1975, many refugees (Nyemba) settled in
Kavangoland.

16. Herero
The Herero live in the area of Omaheke. the Herero population is proud of where
women still wear dresses and colorful Victorian selling dolls in their own image to
tourists.
The Herero are a people of African Bantu language group speaking Herero,
currently consisting of approximately 320 000 people (164 000 Namibia 135 000 21
000 Angola and Botswana). So most of them live in Namibia, a few groups in
Botswana and others in Angola, where they occupy low-skilled jobs for rural
laborers, or servants or street vendors for city dwellers.
In 1904, the Herero rose against the German colonization of their territory (South-
West Africa). They were then victims of harsh repression under General Lothar von
Trotha, author of an extermination order against them. Thus, between 1904 and
1911, the Herero people of South West Africa increased from 80 000 to 15 000
individuals.

17. Sun/Bushmen
The Bushmen are the oldest inhabitants of Southern Africa where they lived for at
least 20,000 years. Their habitat is the vast desert of the Kalahari and Bushmanland.
Today, the Bushmen have largely been able to maintain a traditional lifestyle.
 They are grouped in small villages of huts in the vast plains of Bushmanland.
Namibia still has 27 000 Bushmen (or Bushmen) representing 3% of the total
population, Botswana (55 000) and South Africa (10 000). They are neither black nor
white, and rock carvings that testify They occupied the country for thousands?
Years, well before arrival of all other peoples, especially the Bantus, who have
emerged that from the fifteenth century.
Only some 2,000 Bushmen maintain Today, as the hero of 'Gods Must Be Crazy ",
their ancestral way of life, in the Kalahari Desert in East of the country. They only
have what they can carry, using poisoned arrowheads for hunting, and transport
layer of water in eggs of ostrich empt

18. Staple Food
Pap
Matangara

19. Pictures and People

20. Pictures and People

21. Pictures and People