Contents

- General Information
- Geography and Environment
- Population and HIV/AIDS
- Economy
- Communications, Information, Science and Technology
- Chronology of History

Communications, Information, Science and Technology

Namibia's international dialing code: +264

General [1] Per 1,000 people in 1998
Telephone mainlines: 69
Mobile telephones: 12
Personal computers: 18
Television sets: 37
Radios: 144
Daily newspapers: 19
Internet hosts (per 10,000 people, Jan. 2000): 11.74

Telephone system [2]
Domestic: Good urban services; fair rural service; microwave radio relay links major towns; connections to other populated places are by open wire
International: A fully automated digital network is being implemented

Sources:
[1] The World Bank. 2000. World Development Report 2000/2001. Attacking Poverty. New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press. The complete report is available on-line: http://worldbank.org/poverty/wdrpoverty/report/

[2] U.S. State Department of State. Background Notes. Namibia, http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/bgnotes/af/namibia9504.html

- General Information
- Geography and Environment
- Population and HIV/AIDS
- Economy
- Communications, Information, and Science and Technology
- Chronology of History