Latest NSA Survey Finds Significant Reduction in Poverty Rate

Findings from the Namibia Statistics Agency’s (NSA) Namibia Household Income & Expenditure Survey (NHIES) 2015/16 show a substantial drop in poverty rates over the past 13 years. The latest Economy Watch bulletin from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) states that poverty rates have dropped to 11.0% and 18.0% respectively adding that in 2003/04, 21.9% of the Namibian population …