Namibian Americans are Americans who are of Namibian ancestry or who were born in

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, a country located in Southern Africa. According to the National Planning Commission there were approximately 1,547 people born in Namibia living in the United States as of 2001. This number has likely increased in the years since but the

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does not collect data on the specific ancestry of American residents, so it is not possible to determine the total number of Namibian Americans in the United States through census data.

Demographics

Namibian Americans are a small but growing community in the United States, with the largest populations found in California,

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, and New York. Many Namibian Americans are the children or grandchildren of immigrants who have come to the United States seeking education or economic opportunities, while others are refugees who fled Namibia during times of political upheaval and conflict.

Language

The official languages of Namibia are English and Afrikaans, and many Namibian Americans are fluent in both languages. In the 2000 Census, 840 Namibian Americans reported their ethnic origins.https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial/tables/2000/stp-159/national/stp-159-namibia.pdf There are an estimated 28,400 Afrikaans language speakers among Namibian Americans, as recorded in 2016.2016 American Community Survey, 5-year estimates (https://usa.ipums.org/usa/sda/ )

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Demographics

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