Namibia
Republic of Namibia
- Capital
- Windhoek
- Region
- Southern Africa
- Population, 2025
- 3.1 million
- Currency
- NAD
- Area
- 825,615 km²
Across Namibia's 2 priced cities, one person needs about $1,180 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $1,020.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
- Purchasing power25%56
- Safety20%36
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%83
- Connectivity10%3
- Cost10%63
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 37%
- SourcePwC
- Lowest income tax rate
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 31%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 15%
- SourcePwC
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 36.4
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 63.6
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2021
- 11.2
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #144 worldwide
- 18
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- —
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +14%
Cities in Namibia
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Windhoek | 56 | 43.0 | $535 | $1,020 | 98.8 | 386.2K | High confidence, 32 contributors |
| 2Tsumeb | 47 | 44.0 | $302 | — | — | 22.8K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 3Rundu | 40 | — | — | — | — | 75.2K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 4Walvis Bay | 40 | — | — | — | — | 73.6K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 5Swakopmund | 40 | — | $431 | — | — | 53K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 6Arandis | 40 | — | — | — | — | 6.1K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 7Henties Bay | 40 | — | — | — | — | 5.6K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |