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Africa > Namibia > Government

NAMIBIAN GOVERNMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Capital city Windhoek
Corruption 4.3 [49th of 160]
Parliamentary seats > Female 22% [15th of 143]
Procedures to build a warehouse > number 11 ... [148th of 168]
Procedures to enforce a contract > number 31 ... [93rd of 170]
Procedures to register property > number 9 ... [17th of 167]
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament > % 26.9 % ... [29th of 174]
Start-up procedures to register a business > number 10 ... [61st of 171]
Status pseudo-democracy
Suffrage
18 years of age; universal
Time required to build a warehouse > days 105 days ... [150th of 168]
Time required to enforce a contract > days 270 days ... [147th of 171]
Time required to register property > days 23 days ... [130th of 167]
Time required to start a business > days 95 days ... [15th of 171]
Time to resolve insolvency > years 1.5 years ... [128th of 151]
Trademarks, nonresidents 1,257 ... [70th of 99]
Trademarks, residents 57 ... [83rd of 98]
Transnational Issues > Disputes > International
concerns from international experts and local populations over the Okavango Delta ecology in Botswana and human displacement scuttled Namibian plans to construct a hydroelectric dam on Popa Falls along the Angola-Namibia border; managed dispute with South Africa over the location of the boundary in the Orange River; Namibia has supported, and in 2004 Zimbabwe dropped objections to, plans between Botswana and Zambia to build a bridge over the Zambezi River, thereby de facto recognizing a short, but not clearly delimited, Botswana-Zambia boundary in the river
UN membership date 23 Apr. 1990
United Nations mission
http://www.un.int/namibia/na_pgs/pg_1.htm

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Transparency International; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; World Development Indicators database; electionworld.org; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; Wisconsin High School Model United Nations

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Namibia, Republic of Namibia

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