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| Demographics of South Africa | |
|---|---|
 South Africa population pyramid in 2020 | |
| Population | 62 million (2022 Census)[1][2] |
| Density | 48.1/km2 (125/sq mi) |
| Growth rate | 1.06%[2]: 26 |
| Birth rate | 19.5 births/1,000 population (2022 est.)[2]: 21 |
| Death rate | 11.0 deaths/1,000 population (2022)[2]: 21 |
| Life expectancy | 64.7 years (2019 est.)[citation needed] |
| • male | 64.8 years (2022 est.)[2]: 15 |
| • female | 71.3 years (2022 est.)[2]: 15 |
| Fertility rate | 2.34 children born/woman (2022 est.)[2]: 15 |
| Infant mortality rate | 24.3 deaths/1,000 (2022 est.)[2]: 21 |
| Age structure | |
| 0–14 years | 28.8% (2019 est.)[citation needed] |
| 15–64 years | 65.2% (2019 est.)[citation needed] |
| 65 and over | 6% (2019 est.)[citation needed] |
| Sex ratio | |
| Total | 0.99 male(s)/female (2010 est.)[citation needed] |
| At birth | 1.02 male(s)/female[citation needed] |
| Under 15 | 1 male(s)/female[citation needed] |
| 15–64 years | 1.02 male(s)/female[citation needed] |
| 65 and over | 0.68 male(s)/female[citation needed] |
| Nationality | |
| Nationality | South African |
| Language | |
| Official | See Languages of South Africa |
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According to the 2022 census, the population of South Africa is about 62 million people of diverse origins, cultures, languages, and religions.[1] The South African National Census of 2022 was the most recent census held; the next will be in 2032.[3]
In 2011, Statistics South Africa counted 2.1 million foreigners in total.[4] Reports[specify] suggest that is an underestimation. The real figure may be as high as five million,[5] including some three million Zimbabweans.[6]
History
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Population
Earlier Censuses, 1904 to 2011
1904 Census
South African population figures for the 1904 Census.[7]
Colony Pop.
Group |
Cape Colony | Natal | Transvaal | Orange River Colony |
Total | Percent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black | 1,424,787 | 904,041 | 937,127 | 225,101 | 3,491,056 | 67.5% |
| White | 579,741 | 97,109 | 297,277 | 142,690 | 1,116,805 | 21.6% |
| Coloured | 395,034 | 6,686 | 24,226 | 19,282 | 445,228 | 8.6% |
| Indian | 10,242 | 100,918 | 11,321 | 253 | 122,734 | 2.4% |
| Total | 2,409,804 | 1,108,754 | 1,269,951 | 387,315 | 5,175,463 | 100.0% |
| % of S. Africa | 46.6% | 21.4% | 24.5% | 7.5% | 100% |
1960 Census
Sources: Statesman's Year-Book 1967–1968;[8] Europa Year Book 1969[9]
Province Pop. Group
|
Cape of Good Hope |
Natal | Transvaal | Orange Free State |
Total | Percent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black | 3,011,080 | 2,199,920 | 4,633,378 | 1,083,886 | 10,928,264 | 68.3% |
| White | 1,003,207 | 340,235 | 1,468,305 | 276,745 | 3,088,492 | 19.3% |
| Coloured | 1,330,089 | 45,253 | 108,007 | 25,909 | 1,509,258 | 9.4% |
| Indian | 18,477 | 394,854 | 63,787 | 7 | 477,125 | 3.0% |
| Total | 5,362,853 | 2,980,262 | 6,273,477 | 1,386,547 | 16,003,139 | 100.0% |
| % of S. Africa | 33.5% | 18.6% | 39.2% | 8.7% | 100.0% |
1904–85 national census numbers
Bantustan demographics were removed from South African census data during Apartheid and for this reason official figures on the national population of the country during that period will be inaccurate.[10]
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% | Popu- lation (1,000 people) |
% | Popu- lation (1,000 people) |
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