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Namibia

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Prison population

Sentenced + remand

Rate per 100,000

Per 100,000 residents

Occupancy

At or under capacity

Pre-trial / remand

Share not yet sentenced

Female prisoners

Foreign nationals

Conditions risk — across 11 facilities

Average of our computed Conditions Risk Score across the country's facilities. Methodology · Browse highest-risk

national average
abolitionist on capital punishment since 1990. Last known execution: 1988.ICCPR-OP2 (death-penalty abolition protocol): signatory

Seeded from Amnesty International 2024 categorisation + Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide.

Source: Amnesty International + Cornell Death Penalty Worldwide.

Prison population over time

Annual figures, latest survey year
2004: 4,442+66.6% over 12y2016: 7,400

Source: unodc

Prisons in Namibia

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11 facilities in our database.

Data completeness

10%

Score based on how many fields are populated. We surface this so you know where the gaps are.

National population
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