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In the latest Afrobarometer survey, nearly three quarters (73%) of Namibians said they or their family members did not have enough food to eat at least once in the past year. This is 26 percentage points higher than in the same survey in 2017.
More than half of Namibians (62%) say they did not have enough fuel to cook at least once in the past year. A quarter of Namibians (25%) did not have basic necessities such as enough food, enough clean water for household use, medicine or medical care, enough fuel to cook, or cash income in the past year. This puts them in a high state of poverty. Another 39% of Namibians experienced moderate poverty in the past year.
Only 8% of Namibians have not experienced any level of poverty in the past year.
Overall, the Afrobarometer survey showed that food shortages and famine were the third biggest problem Namibians wanted the government to solve. An overwhelming majority (63%) said unemployment was the biggest problem that needed to be solved, while a quarter of Namibians (25%) said education was the biggest problem that must be addressed. Food shortages came in third, with 23% of respondents saying it was the biggest problem.
The Afrobarometer survey is conducted on a sample of 1,200 people aged 18 years and above, who are representative of the demographics of a country. In Namibia, the sample population is provided by the Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA). This testing method provides a 95% confidence level within three percentage points.
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