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The province with the highest percentage of white population is Western Cape at 16.4%, while the white population is below 5% in Limpopo, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal and North West. [45] The Statistics South Africa Census 2011 showed that there were about 4,586,838 white people in South Africa, amounting to 8.9% of the country's population. [46]
At the time of Zimbabwean independence in 1980, it was estimated that around 38% of Rhodesians were UK-born, with slightly fewer born in Rhodesia, and around 20% from elsewhere in Africa. [43] The white population of that era contained a large transient element, and many white people might better be considered foreign migrants than settlers.
Statistics South Africa asks people to describe themselves in the census in terms of five racial population groups. [29] The 2011 census figures for these groups were African at 80.2%, White at 8.4%, Coloured at 8.8%, Indian/Asian at 2.5%, and Other/Unspecified at 0.5%. [30] The white percentage of the population has sharply declined.
The African country with the largest population of European descendants both numerically and proportionally is South Africa, where white South Africans number 4,504,252 people, making up 7.3% of South Africa's population, according to the 2022 South African census. [11]
As of 2019, the total population of Africa is estimated at 1.3 billion, representing 16 percent of the world's population. [13] According to UN estimates, the population of Africa may reach 2.49 billion by 2050 (about 26% of the world's total) and 4.28 billion by 2100 (about 39% of the world's total). [13]
The results of the 2011 census showed Limpopo's white population being 139,359; an increase of 5.2% from 132,420 in 2001. The white population was recorded as 2.6% of the total population, the lowest share of the population in any province and a 0.1% decrease from 2001.
Apart from Windhoek, coastal areas and Southern Namibia, there are large White communities in Otjiwarongo and towns in the Otavi Triangle, such as Tsumeb and Grootfontein. The 1981 census of the Republic of South Africa reported a White population of 76,430 in Namibia (71% Afrikaners and 17% German-speaking). [2]
White demographic decline is a decrease in the White populace numerically and or as a percentage of the total population in a city, state, subregion, or nation. It has been recorded in a number of countries and smaller jurisdictions.