Geography - note:
South Africa completely surrounds Lesotho and almost completely
surrounds Swaziland
People South Africa
Population:
44,187,637
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the
effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower
life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower
population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of
population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July
2006 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 29.7% (male 6,603,220/female 6,525,810)
15-64 years: 65% (male 13,955,950/female 14,766,843)
65 years and over: 5.3% (male 905,870/female 1,429,944) (2006 est.)
Median age:
total: 24.1 years
male: 23.3 years
female: 25 years (2006 est.)
Population growth rate:
-0.4% (2006 est.)
Birth rate:
18.2 births/1,000 population (2006 est.)
Death rate:
22 deaths/1,000 population (2006 est.)
Net migration rate:
-0.16 migrant(s)/1,000 population
note: there is an increasing flow of Zimbabweans into South Africa
and Botswana in search of better economic opportunities (2006 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.02 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.01 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.95 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.63 male(s)/female
total population: 0.95 male(s)/female (2006 est.)