Namibia vs Papua New Guinea: Reserve position in the IMF, US dollar, per capita

Namibia
0.0663 units per person
in 2025
Papua New Guinea
0.0743 units per person
in 2025
Namibia rank
161st
Papua New Guinea rank
159th

Reserve position in the IMF, US dollar, per capita over time

  • Namibia
  • Papua New Guinea
0123196019922025

How they compare

Papua New Guinea currently reports 0.0743 units per person against 0.0663 units per person in Namibia, a difference of 0.008 units per person.

That makes Papua New Guinea's figure about 1.1 times Namibia's.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 66 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Papua New Guinea ahead.

Namibia ranks 161st and Papua New Guinea ranks 159th of 190 countries.

Across the 7 decades both report, Namibia averaged higher in 1 and Papua New Guinea in 5.

Head to head by decade

Decade Namibia Papua New Guinea Difference Ahead
1960s 0 units per person 0 units per person 0 units per person
1970s 0 units per person 0.1022 units per person 0.1022 units per person Papua New Guinea
1980s 0 units per person 1.6 units per person 1.6 units per person Papua New Guinea
1990s 0.0159 units per person 0.0123 units per person 0.0037 units per person Namibia
2000s 0.0458 units per person 0.087 units per person 0.0411 units per person Papua New Guinea
2010s 0.0552 units per person 0.0756 units per person 0.0204 units per person Papua New Guinea
2020s 0.0702 units per person 0.0712 units per person 0.001 units per person Papua New Guinea

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher reserve position in the imf, us dollar, per capita, Namibia or Papua New Guinea?
Papua New Guinea, at 0.0743 units per person against 0.0663 units per person in Namibia as of 2025.
What is the difference in reserve position in the imf, us dollar, per capita between Namibia and Papua New Guinea?
0.008 units per person, with Papua New Guinea ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Namibia and Papua New Guinea?
66 years are reported by both, from 1960 to 2025.
How do Namibia and Papua New Guinea rank globally for reserve position in the imf, us dollar, per capita?
Namibia ranks 161st and Papua New Guinea ranks 159th of 190 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Statizoid (derived), published as Reserve position in the IMF, US dollar, per capita. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Namibia vs Papua New Guinea: Reserve position in the IMF, US dollar, per capita. Statizoid, drawing on Statizoid (derived). Retrieved 03 September 2026, from https://financial-sector.statizoid.com/compare/reserve-position-in-the-imf-us-dollar-per-capita/namibia/papua-new-guinea/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page; please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://financial-sector.statizoid.com/compare/reserve-position-in-the-imf-us-dollar-per-capita/namibia/papua-new-guinea/">Namibia vs Papua New Guinea: Reserve position in the IMF, US dollar, per capita</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Reserve position in the IMF, US dollar, per capita
Unit
units per person
Source
Statizoid (derived)
Licence
Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page
Coverage
192 places, 12,362 data points, 1960–2025
Last refreshed

Reserve position in the IMF, US dollar divided by Population, total, matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.