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This is a list of the provinces of South Africa by Human Development Index as of 2022. [1] Rank Province HDI (2022) High human development 1 Western Cape: 0.755 2
Pretoria was founded in 1855 by Marthinus Pretorius, a leader of the Voortrekkers, who named it after his father Andries Pretorius and chose a spot on the banks of the Apies rivier (Afrikaans for "Monkeys river") to be the new capital of the South African Republic (Dutch: Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek; ZAR).
They vary widely in population, from the mostly-urban Gauteng, which contains over 20% of the national population, to the mostly-desert Northern Cape, which contains less than 3%. The following table shows the provincial populations according to the 2011 National Census , [ 1 ] the 2016 Community Survey, [ 2 ] and the most recent 2022 Census.
Statistics South Africa asks people to describe themselves in the census in terms of five racial population groups. [30] 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%. [31] The white percentage of the population has sharply declined.
The number shown is the average annual growth rate for the period. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship—except for refugees not permanently settled in the country of asylum, who are generally considered part of the population of the country of origin ...
Questionnaire C was for the population in transit (at ports of entry and exit) on Census night, including the homeless. The recruitment process for permanent and temporary staff was held between early-2007 and May 2011, it involved Capacity Building Training Projects, targeted recruitment, employment agencies and a nationwide advertising ...
The population decreased most over one year in these cities. Spring Valley, Nevada, had the largest one year-drop at -10.14%, after losing just over 22,000 people from 2022 to 2023.
The Demography of the World Population from 1950 to 2100. Data source: United Nations — World Population Prospects 2017. Demography (from Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos) 'people, society' and -γραφία (-graphía) 'writing, drawing, description') [1] is the statistical study of human populations: their size, composition (e.g., ethnic group, age), and how they change through the ...