Namibia NAM
Tier 5b · Resource-Driven, Low/Mid-Income
Namibia stands at 22.8 of 100 on the Optional Work Index, the point at which paid work becomes economically optional1.
Supply measures whether machines can do the work; demand measures whether people can afford to stop. The index is their geometric mean, computed by the same method used for every country.
22.8 / 100
0 · pre-automation baseline100 · work optional
26.1
Supply
can machines do the work
19.9
Demand
can people afford to stop
Data coverage high · 5/5 inputs from primary data (supply 3/3, demand 2/2)
Components
Five sub-indices, fixed weights within each side
Supply
Capacity for machines to do the work26.1
AI Capabilityweight 40%
33.4
Humanoid Roboticsweight 31%
9.0
Labor Market Shiftweight 29%
34.2
AI system progress toward human-level and beyond cognitive performance.
Demand
Capacity for people to stop working19.9
Economic Abundanceweight 60%
27.5
Wealth Distributionweight 40%
8.6
Whether the cost of necessities (healthcare, housing, food, transport, education) is falling enough that work is less required.
Data sources for NAM
which series filled each input
ai_frontier— epoch globalai_adoption— wb wbrobot_density— wb ifrautomation_gap— derived wbunemployment— wb wbproductivity— none missingjob_openings— wb proxycost_healthcare— wb wbcost_food— wb proxycost_housing— wb proxycost_transport— wb proxycost_education— wb wbbs_electricity— wb wbbs_water— wb wbbs_sanitation— wb wbbs_ict_affordability— none missingincome_floor— wb wbinequality— wb wblabor_income_share— none missing
Calculated 2026-07-24 13:30:46 UTC · version 3.1.0