White Namibians

White Namibians

Blanke Namibiërs, Wit Namibiërs Weiße Namibier
Afrikaner children playing tug of war during a traditional Boeresport Day in Namibia.
Total population
c. 150,000
Regions with significant populations
Namibia	150,000 (6% of total population)[1]
Others	48,000
Languages
First language Afrikaans (60%) German (32%) English (7%) Portuguese (1%)
Religion
Predominantly Christian (Lutheranism Anglicanism Roman Catholicism Seventh-day Adventism)
Related ethnic groups
White South Africans, White Zimbabweans, Afrikaners, Coloureds, Basters, other White Africans

White Namibians (German: Weiße Namibier or Europäische Namibier) are people of European descent settled in Namibia. The majority of White Namibians are Dutch-descended Afrikaners (locally born or of White South African descent), with many of the White minority being German Namibians (descended from Germans who colonised Namibia in the late-nineteenth century). Many are also Portuguese or English immigrants. Estimates published in 2016 suggest that the White Namibian population run between 75,000^[2] and 150,000.^[3] This imprecision in data is because the Namibian government no longer collects data based on race.