Namibia

GDP per person in Namibia

GDP per person in Namibia: $3,544 in 1980 and $4,019 in 2025, by World Bank estimates.

Latest, 2025
$4,019
Since 1980
+$475
World, 2025
$12,130
Watch it change on the map

US dollars at 2015 prices · World Bank

GDP per person in NamibiaGDP per person in Namibia: $3,544 in 1980 and $4,019 in 2025, by World Bank estimates. The highest was $4,774 in 2015, the lowest $2,857 in 1990.
Estimates, World BankWorld

What the numbers say

  • The highest was $4,774 in 2015, the lowest $2,857 in 1990.
  • Older estimates from Maddison reach back to 1950: 4,009 international dollars at 2011 prices.

The long run, in international dollars at 2011 prices

GDP per person in NamibiaMaddison Project Database, version 2023 by Bolt, Jutta and Jan Luiten van Zanden (2024), “Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update”, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1–41. DOI: 10.1111/joes.12618
Estimates, Maddison

Maddison Project Database, version 2023 by Bolt, Jutta and Jan Luiten van Zanden (2024), “Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update”, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1–41. DOI: 10.1111/joes.12618

Every year

US dollars at 2015 prices · World Bank

YearNamibiaWorld
2025$4,019$12,130
2024$4,032$11,890
2023$3,973$11,670
2022$3,906$11,450
2021$3,810$11,170
2020$3,787$10,580
2019$4,243$11,000
2018$4,400$10,820
2017$4,477$10,590
2016$4,649$10,360
2015$4,774$10,190
2014$4,702$10,000
2013$4,549$9,811
2012$4,421$9,654
2011$4,303$9,515
2010$4,165$9,322
2009$3,989$9,028
2008$4,036$9,266
2007$3,988$9,191
2006$3,835$8,913
2005$3,628$8,639
2004$3,583$8,409
2003$3,232$8,151
2002$3,146$8,011
2001$3,055$7,932
2000$3,084$7,880
1999$3,050$7,639
1998$3,025$7,479
1997$3,004$7,382
1996$2,958$7,203
1995$2,945$7,058
1994$2,918$6,944
1993$2,959$6,819
1992$3,104$6,801
1991$2,989$6,773
1990$2,857$6,804
1989$2,975$6,741
1988$3,112$6,620
1987$3,197$6,446
1986$3,188$6,326
1985$3,138$6,233
1984$3,214$6,120
1983$3,310$5,947
1982$3,462$5,903
1981$3,538$5,986
1980$3,544$5,980
1979–$5,978
1978–$5,843
1977–$5,710
1976–$5,591
1975–$5,410
1974–$5,467
1973–$5,465
1972–$5,236
1971–$5,061
1970–$4,964
1969–$4,885
1968–$4,707
1967–$4,535
1966–$4,461
1965–$4,321
1964–$4,176
1963–$3,999
1962–$3,889
1961–$3,759
1960–$3,667

Good to know

  • The value of everything produced in the country in a year, divided by its people, in 2015 US dollars so that years compare.
  • Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators.
  • Ranks count the 186 countries with a value in 2025, highest first.
  • The faint line is the world as a whole, as the same source counts it.

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