Windheok, July 16 — The Namibia Statistics agency today reveals that over 1.6 million of the over 3 million Namibia Population are eligible to participated in the upcoming Presidential and National Assembly election on 27 November 2024.
The data is about all the Namibians who were 17 years by the time of the Census reference night (24 September 2023) as well as all the people who where 18 years and older on the same night. The 2023 Census preliminary report included figures at various different age levels. A subset of people with ages of 17 and above by the time of the Census reference night, 24
September 2023 could also be obtained from the data that was used to produce the 2023 Census preliminary report. In order to take a view of the number of people who are eligible to register for voting, the Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA) hereby releases the following two sets of figures (by Sex, Region and Constituency): All Namibians only (excluding non-citizens) of ages 18 years and above; as well as, Namibians only (excluding non-citizens) of age 17 years when they were enumerated
for the 2023 Census with the Census Reference Night of 24 September 2024;
All the Namibians (excluding non-citizens) in the category of 18 years and above are eligible voters and can thus register for the upcoming elections. This amount is: 1,615,910 (763,772 Male and 852,138 Female)
Some of the Namibians (excluding non-citizens) who were 17 years by 16 July 2024 or
earlier, should by today be 18 years of age or older. The number of all Namibians (excluding non-citizens) enumerated to be 17 years by 24 September 2023 (the Census Reference Night) is: 51,868 (26,003 Male and 25,865 Female).
In total, around 1,667,778 Namibian citizens (789,775 Male and 878,003 Female) are
eligible voters for the upcoming elections.
However, the Namibians in the diaspora are not included in the above mentioned figures because the Namibian 2023 Census used a De Facto Methodology (which was an enumeration based on the people found in Namibia during the Census Reference Night, thus including Foreigners) as opposed to the De Jure Methodology (for which the Census enumeration would count the number of all Namibians only including those in the diaspora). Attached are the two sets of the figures mentioned above (17 years as well as 18 years
and above).
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