As even the most cursory googler will discover almost instantly, “facts” and opinions concerning Namibia’s seal population and human “management” thereof are widely/wildly divergent/contested.
Suffice for now that all of Namibia’s seals are Cape Fur Seals, and that an enormous number (and major proportion of the global population) of them live and die on Namibia’s coast.
Circa 1.5 million is the most commonly quoted “current” estimate, which is a deal more than half the size of Namibia’s human population.
Humans live in many parts of this large, mostly-arid or semi-arid nation, its seal colonies occupy a tiny portion of Namibia’s Atlantic shoreline.
Unless you regard Greenland – an “independent” country, but within the kingdom of Denmark – as a nation, Mongolia is the world’s least densely human-populated nation, followed by Namibia.
Fun fact: if Western Australia’s secessionists’ dreams became real, their newly independent nation would be the world’s least densely populated nation, hands down.
Western Australia’s circa 2.85 million people live within more than 2.5 million hectares…but more than 2 million of them live in Perth.
Namibia’s circa 2.65 million people are spread across a little more than 824 thousand hectares.
Windhoek – its capital and largest city – is home to circa 461 thousand; Namibia is very much less “urban” than is Australia.
(photo of Cape Fur Seal pup is copyright Doug Spencer, taken on the Skeleton Coast at 10.13 am, 15 November 2022)