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Namibia has no mining or refining share on record for the ten materials. In 2024 it imported $729M and exported $908M of them, by value (CEPII BACI).

$908M

exports of the ten materials in 2024, by value; most of it copper

ANNUAL 2024

  • Sites on record

    1

    Mines and plants in the open sources. Coverage is partial.

  • Exports of the ten materials

    $908M

    2024; most of it copper; 33 partner countries

  • Grid emissions intensity

    52gCO2e/kWh

    2024

  • Imports of the ten materials

    $729M

    2024; most of it copper; 20 partner countries

OverviewSupply chainMoneySustainabilityRisks & policySourcesHistory & talk

Overview

Trade partners

4 recorded flows, 2024

Basemap: Natural Earth (public domain)
  • Recorded trade flow; a thicker line is a larger value
  • Namibia

Lines join the middle of each country. They are not shipping routes.

Recorded trade flows of Namibia: Cobalt
PartnerMaterialYearValue, US$Source
Import fromDem. Rep. of the CongoCobaltProcess2024$142M
Export toChinaCobaltProcess2024$73M
Export toSaudi ArabiaCobaltProcess2024$16M
Export toSwitzerlandCobaltProcess2024$15M

Reconciled customs data (CEPII BACI), by value. The data holds only the largest flows of each material, so this is not the country’s full trade.

Key facts

Country code
NAM
GDP
$15bn (2025)
Mineral rents, share of GDP
3.2% (2021)
Ores and metals, share of goods exports
32% (2024)
Mining area, all commodities
495 km² (2019; rank 25 of 144)

Money →Sustainability →Risks & policy →

Map

Basemap: Natural Earth (public domain)
  • Namibia
  • Mine or brine operation
  • Processing site

Sites are those in the open sources. A site missing here is missing from the sources, not from the world.

Sites on record · 1

1 of 1 shown

One entry per site. Where two sources describe the same site, the atlas lists the record of the source it ranks higher.

Supply chain

Every figure the sources give for this country, its trade partners per material, and where its sites are.

Production, refining and reserves

No data yet. No production, refining or reserves figure names this country.

Trade partners

4 recorded flows, 2024

Basemap: Natural Earth (public domain)
  • Recorded trade flow; a thicker line is a larger value
  • Namibia

Lines join the middle of each country. They are not shipping routes.

Recorded trade flows of Namibia: Cobalt
PartnerMaterialYearValue, US$Source
Import fromDem. Rep. of the CongoCobaltProcess2024$142M
Export toChinaCobaltProcess2024$73M
Export toSaudi ArabiaCobaltProcess2024$16M
Export toSwitzerlandCobaltProcess2024$15M

Reconciled customs data (CEPII BACI), by value. The data holds only the largest flows of each material, so this is not the country’s full trade.

1 sites, deposits and projects on record are listed with the map in the Overview →

Money

What the trade data and the World Bank record in money terms. Every value is a reported figure with its own year.

All recorded trade flows of 2024 under the customs codes that isolate one of the ten materials, by value (CEPII BACI, reconciled estimates, current US dollars). Codes that mix several materials are left out, so trade in those materials is understated; gallium and germanium have no usable code at all. Each material lists its five largest partners. Why trade data blurs some materials

Exports of the ten materials

$908Min 2024, with 33 partner countries

Imports of the ten materials

$729Min 2024, with 20 partner countries

The economy around mining

World Bank indicators. Each has its own latest year, shown next to the value; mineral rents are often several years old.

  • GDP (current US$)

    $15bn

    Year 2025

  • Mineral rents (% of GDP)

    3.2%

    Year 2021

  • Ores and metals exports (% of merchandise exports)

    32%

    Year 2024

Government revenue from extractives

No data yet. Namibia has no EITI summary record with a government total. Countries report only if they implement the EITI Standard; a missing record does not mean there is no such revenue.

EITI open data

Investment pipeline

announced figures

Planned and under-construction projects in Namibia with a publicly announced capital cost, public financial backing, or both. Each line is one statement by the named publisher on the given date; the atlas adds nothing to it.

No data yet. The atlas has read no announcement of this kind for a project in Namibia. The list is short and hand-read; a missing project is missing from the list, not from the world.

A short, hand-read list, not a census: 19 projects in all. Announced amounts are not spending, a letter of interest or a conditional commitment is not a loan, and amounts stay in the currency of the announcement.

Public support instruments

Stockpiles, price floors, offtake and purchasing programmes and public funds of Namibia's government, as dated policy events of the type "public support". Each is one statement by its publisher.

No data yet. The atlas has read no public support instrument of Namibia's government. The list is short and hand-read.

Mining companies headquartered here · 2

Companies that Wikidata places in the mining industry with headquarters in Namibia, for every commodity, not only the ten materials. Wikidata is edited by volunteers: entries may be missing or out of date, and each name links to its item. A listing names an exchange and a ticker; it is not a price.

CompanyHeadquartersStock listingLEISource
NAMDEB Diamond Corporation (Pty) Ltd.Windhoek——
Namibian Marine PhosphateWalvis Bay——

These figures are informational, not financial advice.

Sustainability

Four indicators, the same on every profile. Each is a figure with its unit, year and source, or a plain statement that there is none.

  • Carbon

    Emissions intensity of the country's electricity grid.

    52gCO2e/kWh

    2024Reported

    Higher than 7% of the other 208 countries with a grid figure.

    • It describes the national grid, not mining or refining. Sites may run on their own power.

  • Water

    Share of the country's mine sites on record that lie in high or extremely high baseline water stress.

    0%of mine sites on record

    2023Estimated

    No world percentile: the number of sites on record differs too much between countries to compare them.

    • 0 of 1 sites with a class (1 mine and brine sites on record).
    • Counted by site, not by tonnage: it is not a share of production.
    • "Arid and Low Water Use" is a class of its own in the source and is not counted as high.

  • Land

    Land visibly used by mining in the country, every commodity together.

    495km²

    2019Estimated

    Higher than 83% of the other 143 countries with a mapped mining area.

    • Rank 25 of 144 countries by area.
    • Mapped from satellite images for all mining in a country. It cannot be attributed to one material or one site.

  • Circularity

    Recycling's share of demand.

    Not available per country: recycling rates in the atlas are published per material, for the EU as a whole.

There is no overall score: the four figures measure different things and are not added up. How to read these figures

Risks & policy

Export controls in force

Compiled by USGS, effective January 2026. Not a live feed.

  • ▲ BanNamibiaLithium2023

    Export ban: Ores and concentrates of cobalt, graphite, lithium, manganese, and rare earths (2023).

    Source ↗
  • ▲ BanNamibiaCobalt2023

    Export ban: Ores and concentrates of cobalt, graphite, lithium, manganese, and rare earths (2023).

    Source ↗
  • ▲ BanNamibiaGraphite2023

    Export ban: Ores and concentrates of cobalt, graphite, lithium, manganese, and rare earths (2023).

    Source ↗
  • ▲ BanNamibiaRare earths2023

    Export ban: Ores and concentrates of cobalt, graphite, lithium, manganese, and rare earths (2023).

    Source ↗

Chokepoints at sea

The atlas has no record of which minerals pass through which sea passage, so no chokepoint figure is attached to this profile. Current ship counts for the main passages are on the Live page. Open the Live page

Gaps

What the atlas is missing for Namibia

Computed from the data. Each line names a record that exists and one that does not. It marks missing data, not missing industry.

None of the checks finds a missing record. That does not mean the record is complete.

  • Trade is partial by design: the atlas holds only each material's largest flows. 5 of them name this country.

Add dataAll gaps, across materials

Sources

Every source this profile uses, with its licence, the years its figures describe and how sure the figures are. Each chip on the profile opens the single record.

The mining-area figure comes from a share-alike source (CC-BY-SA-4.0). It is kept in its own file under that licence, apart from the rest of the atlas's data.

History & talk

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