World population/Namibia
Africa
Population of Namibia
3,153,248
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#137
world rank
0.04%
of world population
+1.89%
yearly change
+59,659
people this year
78,927
births a year
19,538
deaths a year
How the figure for Namibia is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Namibia at 3,153,248 on 1 July 2026, and projects 3,212,907 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.00 people added every second.
That places Namibia at number 137 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.04 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 58 entries in Africa.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 78,927 births and 19,538 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in Africa
Ranked by population.