What does Namibia produce and export?

It is a top-ten exporter of uranium (#1, 68% of world export value in 2024).

Share of world production, 2024. Countries with no reported production are unshaded.

What does Namibia produce?

Namibia is not in the top ten producers of any commodity tracked here.

What does Namibia export?

Namibia's largest commodity exports by value. Each bar's share is that commodity's share of world trade in it, not its share of Namibia's own exports — the two are unrelated and shown so a bar near 100% marks a commodity Namibia dominates globally rather than one it merely exports a lot of.

Top 1 Namibia commodity exports in 2024
Rank	Commodity	Export value (US$)	Share of world
1	Uranium	$1.1 billion	68%
	Rest of world	$0	32%

Commodities where Namibia is a top-ten exporter
Commodity	World rank	Share of world exports	Export value	Year
Uranium	1	68%	$1.1 billion	2024

Sources: FAOSTAT (crops and livestock), USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries (minerals), Energy Institute Statistical Review (energy) for production; CEPII BACI for trade. Ranks count only the commodities on this site.

Namibia commodity by commodity

One page for each commodity where Namibia is a top-five producer or exporter with at least 3% of the world total.

Uranium #1 exporter

Namibia in the pattern reports

What the cross-commodity reports under Patterns say about Namibia, computed from the same data as this page.

What Namibia uses

Namibia had about 3 million people and a food supply of 2,581 kilocalories per person a day in FAO's 2023 food balance sheets. Its eight largest supplies among the commodities tracked there:

Largest domestic supplies of tracked commodities in Namibia, 2023
Commodity	Domestic supply	Share of world	kg per person	Self-sufficiency	Imported
Corn	658 thousand tonnes	0.1%	63 (#16 of 140)	16%	89%
Milk	196 thousand tonnes	<0.1%	57 (#93 of 142)	65%	44%
Wheat	192 thousand tonnes	<0.1%	62 (#80 of 143)	13%	94%
Sugar	127 thousand tonnes	0.1%	28 (#60 of 143)	<0.1%	104%
Rice	48 thousand tonnes	<0.1%	16 (#80 of 141)	<0.1%	102%
Potatoes	44 thousand tonnes	<0.1%	14 (#104 of 143)	30%	70%
Apples	34 thousand tonnes	<0.1%	11 (#46 of 143)	<0.1%	100%
Oranges	32 thousand tonnes	<0.1%	11 (#73 of 140)	6.3%	94%

FAOSTAT Food Balance Sheets. Per-person rank counts countries of at least 1 million people. See consumption and self-sufficiency.

Who supplies Namibia

Single-supplier markets. Namibia buys half or more of its imports from one country in 1 of 1 import markets of $250 million or more, among them copper from Peru (68%, $343 million). Import dependency.

Namibia and critical minerals

The export controls register lists 1 measure imposed by Namibia, of which 0 are in force, suspended or scheduled as of the register's date.

Namibia bans exports of unprocessed lithium ore, cobalt, manganese, graphite and rare earths (2023-06; Ban; Unconfirmed; Lithium, Cobalt, Manganese)

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Data updated 22 October 2026.

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