Editing Namibia (section)

===Ethnic groups===
[[File:Nama Woman Smoking Kalahari Desert Namibia Luca Galuzzi 2004.JPG|thumb|A [[Nama people|Nama]] woman]]
Namibia has many ethnic groups.<ref name="Census2023"/> The majority of the Namibian population is made of [[Bantu peoples|Bantu]]  and [[Khoisan]] peoples. The Bantu groups include the  [[Ovambo people|Ovambo]], [[Herero people|Herero]], [[Kavango people|Kavango]], [[Lozi people|Lozi]], [[Tswana people|Tswana]] and [[Himba people|Himba]] peoples. The Khoisan groups encompass the [[Damara people|Damara]], [[Nama people|Nama]], and [[San people|San]] peoples. There is also a mixed ancestry population consisting of [[Coloured people in Namibia|Coloureds]] (2.1%) and [[Basters]] (1.5%).<ref name="Census2023"/> There is a substantial [[Chinese people in Namibia|Chinese minority in Namibia]]; it stood at 40,000 in 2006.<ref>{{cite web|author=Malia Politzer|date=August 2008|title=China and Africa: Stronger Economic Ties Mean More Migration|url=http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?id=690|access-date=10 September 2013|publisher=Migration Information Source|archive-date=29 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140129114909/http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?id=690|url-status=live}}</ref>[[File:Himba Woman and Family.JPG|thumb|[[Himba people]] in northern Namibia]]

[[White Namibians|Whites]] (being mainly of [[Afrikaner people|Afrikaner]], German, British and [[Portuguese diaspora|Portuguese]] origin) make up 1.8% of the population. Although their proportion of the population decreased after [[Independence of Namibia|independence]] due to emigration and lower birth rates, they still form the second-largest population of [[Ethnic groups in Europe|European ancestry]], both in terms of percentage and actual numbers, in [[Sub-Saharan Africa]] (after South Africa).<ref name="Census2023"/> The majority of [[White Namibians|Namibian whites]] and nearly all those who are of [[Basters|mixed race]] speak [[Afrikaans]] and share similar origins, culture, and religion as the white and coloured populations of South Africa. A large minority of whites (around 30,000) trace their family origins back to the [[German Namibians|German]] settlers who colonised Namibia prior to the South African invasion during the First World War, and they maintain German cultural and educational institutions. Nearly all Portuguese settlers came to the country from the former [[Portuguese West Africa|Portuguese colony]] of Angola.<ref>{{cite news|date=16 August 1975|title=Flight from Angola|url=https://www.economist.com/world/mideast-africa/displayStory.cfm?story_id=12079340|access-date=10 September 2013|newspaper=The Economist|archive-date=25 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180825050453/http://www.economist.com/world/mideast-africa/displayStory.cfm?story_id=12079340|url-status=live}}</ref> The 1960 census reported 526,004 persons in what was then South West Africa, including 73,464 whites (14%).<ref>{{Cite book|last=Singh|first=Lalita Prasad|title=The United Nations and Namibia|publisher=East African Publishing House|year=1980}}</ref>