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Mid-year population estimates for South Africa by population group and sex, 2020 Population Group Male Female Total Number % Distribution of Males Number % Distribution of Females Number % Distribution of Total Black African 23,519,474 80.7 24,634,253 80.8 48,153,727 80.8 Coloured 2,555,204 8.8 2,692,536 8.8 5,247,740 8.8 Indian/Asian 787,662 2.7
This population is dispersed across South Africa with 34 under the age of 15, 21,6% from 15 to 24, 28,3% from 25 to 44, 11.8% from 45 to 64 and 4,3% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age of a 'Black' South African is 21 years. For every 100 females there are 91,1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 86,2 males. [14]
The distribution of white South Africans is fairly evenly spread. According to the 2022 South African census, they comprise 7.3% of the total population and number 4,504,252. They are found in large numbers in practically every province in South Africa but always as a minority. They are high in concentration in large cities.
South Africa's population rose to 62 million people last year from 51.8 million in 2011, according to census data from the statistics agency released on Tuesday. The census found roughly eight in ...
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] This was a 6.8% increase since the 2001 census.
Gauteng was the province with the largest population in 2022, comprising 24.3% of the total population in South Africa, followed by KwaZulu-Natal (comprising 20%), and then the Western Cape (comprising 12%); the same order of population size as was the case in Census 2011.
Southern Africa’s middle-income countries will continue to miss out on the demographic opportunity of having above-average shares of people of working age in populations unless their governments ...
The South African National Census of 1996 was the first census conducted in post-apartheid South Africa. It was calculated on Census Day and reported a population of 2,558,956 white Afrikaans speakers. The census noted that Afrikaners represented the eighth largest ethnic group in the country, or 6.3% of the total population.