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Namibia 

Namibia is a constitutional multiparty democracy. International observers characterized elections as generally free and fair. The government took steps to prosecute or administratively punish officials who committed abuses, whether in the security services or elsewhere in the government.

The overall score indicates that there are medium risks of potential human rights violations in this country. This may also include the tourism sector. Relevant risks for the tourism sector are, e.g.:
  • Government corruption

For better comparability, we have converted the original scores of the indices to a uniform scale of 1-100 (1 most negative, 100 most positive).

In the following table you find these recalculated values and the original score in brackets behind them.

For information and a link to the original index click on "?" in the table.

The Overall Score is the geometric mean of all converted values for each country. It is subcategorized in five risk categories with colour gradations that can be seen in the map.

You can find more details on the methodology here.

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Overall Score

65/100

Global Rights Index

70,0/100 (2)

Human Development Index

61,5/100 (0,615)

Kids Rights Index

67,7/100 (0,677)

Children's Rights in the Workplace Index

46,0/100 (5,4)

Global Slavery Index

51,9/100 (48,14)

Trafficking in persons report

87,5/100 (T1)

Global Gender Gap Index

80,7/100 (0,807)

Rule of Law Index

61,0/100 (0,61)

Fragile States Index

47,6/100 (62,9)

Freedom in the World Index

77,0/100 (77)

Environmental Performance Index

50,9/100 (50,9)

Corruption Perceptions Index

49,0/100 (49)

Equality Index

58,0/100 (58)