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Namibia’s de facto population on the Census Reference Night, 24th Sep ‘23, was 3,022,401. The intercensal annual growth rate from 2011 is 3.0%. The urban population grew by 65.5% from 2011 to 2023, while rural area population increased by 26.3%. The urban population made up 49.5% of the total, while the rural population made up 50.5%. Real GDP per capita has been adjusted downwards significantly as the official intercensal annual growth rate came out significantly greater than the projected annual population growth rate of 1.9%. The economically active age group (age 15-59) makes up 57.4% of the population (2011 = 56.5%).