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Namibia

Mining and welding trades with real employers, and no price a foreigner can read.

4/5
ingredients confirmed
Still unknown: tuition
Living
39.9% of US prices
A comparison of prices, not a budget: it says what things cost here against the United States, not what a month will cost you. Compared at country level, so capital cities and large metros run higher. The price level prices the basket residents buy, and a foreign renter cannot reach the cheap end of local housing — poorer countries may still sit too low here.
Field reputation
Domestic
Industry access
An employer, and the same labour-market test
Safety
1.872 · 63rd of 163
Sixth in sub-Saharan Africa and sixty-third globally — well above South Africa, its neighbour and the country it is usually compared with

More is being checked.

Where these figures came from

One row per ingredient. Open any of them for the source, how far we trust it, and when we last checked.

TuitionNo data yet

No figure recorded. At tier 1 the Namibia Training Authority publishes what its centres teach and states that the subsidy covers Namibian citizens taking a first qualification; at tier 2 the centres publish only component charges for subsidised trainees — a registration fee of about N$750, N$100 per theory subject and a one-off N$250 for practicals — with no unsubsidised or international total. See the Pathoff method, section 14-5.

Confidence
no figure
Living39.9% of US prices

World Bank, 2024, CC BY 4.0: the PPP conversion factor for household consumption is 7.3212 local currency units per international dollar, against an official exchange rate of 18.3287 to the US dollar. Their ratio, 0.399, is the price level against the United States, whose own ratio is 1 by construction. Both figures are theirs; the division is ours. See the Pathoff method, section 12.

A comparison of prices, not a budget: it says what things cost here against the United States, not what a month will cost you. Compared at country level, so capital cities and large metros run higher. The price level prices the basket residents buy, and a foreign renter cannot reach the cheap end of local housing — poorer countries may still sit too low here.

Confidence
made by us from the source
Field reputationDomestic

Pathoff education rubric (the Pathoff method, section 9-2), special band "Locally useful only": The trades network trains capably for Namibian mining and construction employers. No institution here is a name the wider industry knows.

Confidence
made by us from the source
Industry accessAn employer, and the same labour-market test

Pathoff outcome rubric (the Pathoff method, section 10-3), special outcome band "A route you cannot plan around": Judged on its own and it lands with the degree route, because the employment permit and its advertising requirement are the same instrument whatever the qualification.

Confidence
made by us from the source
Rule
No change known to us
Last checked
2026-09
Safety1.872 · 63rd of 163

Global Peace Index 2026, Institute for Economics and Peace: score 1.872, ranked 63 of 163. Both figures are theirs; we publish them as they are.

Sixth in sub-Saharan Africa and sixty-third globally — well above South Africa, its neighbour and the country it is usually compared with

Confidence
printed in the source

What it is like here

Namibia trains for mining, construction and the offshore energy work now arriving on its coast, and the state vocational network is well organised for the people it was built for. It was not built for foreigners: the subsidy is limited to Namibian citizens and no centre publishes what anyone else would pay.

How the process works

1

Ask the centre whether it takes foreign trainees, and at what price

Neither question is answered in anything published.

Timing not confirmed

Where the training is

Arandis / Walvis Bay
Mining and port trades, and the training centres built around them

Open any ingredient above to see where its figure came from, how far we trust it and when we last checked. Nothing here is a substitute for the official source. Last reviewed 2026-09-04.

Photograph of Namibia by Daniel Kraft, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.