Namibia's households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (annual % growth) was -0.34% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 14.07 percentage points from 13.74% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | -0.34% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | -9.85% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 13.74% | 2015 |
| Highest | 36.64% | 1981 |
| Lowest | -17.36% | 1990 |
| Average since 2016 | 4.15% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 36.64% | 1981 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Namibia's households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (annual % growth) fell 13.95 percentage points on 2024 (from 13.61% to -0.34%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +0.43 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 9.36 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.5 standard deviations below that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 31.91 percentage points in 1991 and the biggest yearly fall was 34.67 percentage points in 1982. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 2% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2025, Namibia had the 123rd highest value of the 129 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Namibia | -0.34% | 2025 |
| World | 3.02% | 2024 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 4.36% | 2025 |
| Lower middle income | 6.82% | 2025 |
Closest to Namibia in the 2025 ranking
- Slovak Republic — 120th of 129: 0.24%
- Estonia — 121st of 129: -0.13%
- Finland — 122nd of 129: -0.24%
- Iran, Islamic Rep. — 124th of 129: -0.4%
- Brunei Darussalam — 125th of 129: -1.77%
- Botswana — 126th of 129: -2.24%
What this measures
This field includes expenditure on goods and services by the Household and NPISH sector for the direct satisfaction of human needs or wants, whether individual or collective. This indicator denotes the percentage change over each previous year of the constant price (base year 2015) series in United States dollars.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 45 values
| Year | Households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (annual % growth) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | -0.338 |
| 2024 | 13.61 |
| 2023 | 5.27 |
| 2022 | 9.49 |
| 2021 | 14.59 |
| 2020 | -9.85 |
| 2019 | -0.1012 |
| 2018 | -0.1905 |
| 2017 | -6.76 |
| 2016 | 15.81 |
| 2015 |
Households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (annual % growth) in nearby economies
- Angola — 5.69% (2024)
- Benin — 7.51% (2025)
- Botswana — -2.24% (2025)
- Burkina Faso — 2.34% (2025)
- Burundi — 2.75% (2025)
- Cabo Verde — 2.88% (2025)
- Cameroon — 7.13% (2025)
- Central African Republic — 3.2% (2025)
- Chad
More economic policy & debt data for Namibia
- Adjusted savings, education expenditure (% of GNI) — 8.92% (2021)
- Adjusted savings, net forest depletion (current US$) — US$106.2 million (2021)
- Adjusted savings, mineral depletion (current US$) — US$262.77 million (2021)
- General government final consumption expenditure (current US$) — US$3.36 billion (2025)
- General government final consumption expenditure (current LCU) — 60.11 billion (2025)
- General government final consumption expenditure (constant 2015 US$) — US$3.51 billion (2025)
- General government final consumption expenditure (constant LCU) — 45.2 billion (2025)
- General government final consumption expenditure (% of GDP) — 22.28% (2025)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Namibia's households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (annual % growth)?
- -0.34% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1981?
- It is down 36.98 percentage points from 36.64% in 1981. The highest value was 36.64% in 1981 and the lowest -17.36% in 1990.
- How does Namibia rank?
- 123rd highest of 129 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (annual % growth) unusual for Namibia?
- In 2025, Namibia's households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (annual % growth) fell 13.95 percentage points on 2024 (from 13.61% to -0.34%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +0.43 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 9.36 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.5 standard deviations below that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator NE.CON.PRVT.KD.ZG, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks; National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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