According to the New Era newspaper of October 7 2009, 992 Namibians abroad registered during the September 17 to 30 supplementary registration period. During the last election in 2004 just over 800 people voted at Namibia's foreign missions. At that time it was not possible to register abroad. It is not known how many in the Namibian diaspora still retain their voter registration cards from 2004 and therefore did not need to register anew. Namibians abroad will vote on November 13. The breakdown for the various registration centres abroad is as follows:
Angola 13
Austria 28
Belgium 35
Botswana 23
Brazil 104
China 21
Cuba 60
Cape Town, South Africa 95
Democratic Republic of Congo 7
Ethiopia 9
Egypt 5
France 12
Germany 24
India 20
Malaysia 5
Nigeria 5
New York, USA 54
Pretoria, South Africa 94
Russia 26
Sweden 16
Tanzania 13
United Kingdom 33
Washington DC, USA 19
Zambia 14
Zimbabwe 257
TOTAL 992
Election Watch is a project of the Institute for Public Policy Research in Windhoek, Namibia.