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BusinessLive reports that SA was home to 62,027,503 persons as of 2022, which was over 10-million more than the 51.7-million counted in 2011. Of those, more than half – 31,948-million or 51.5% – were female and 30,078-million were male.
Stats SA announced the new population figures at an event at the Union Buildings on Tuesday, where statistician-general Risenga Maluleke handed over the results to President Cyril Ramaphosa. The population increase represented a population growth rate of 1.8% a year since the 2011 census, the largest growth rate since full population counts began in 1996. The first census, conducted that year, counted 40.6-million people. The most populous province remained Gauteng with 15-million people, while the Northern Cape was the most sparsely populated with 1.3-million people. Of the population groups, just over four out of five (81.4%) of South Africans were black African, while 8.2% were coloured, 7.3% were white and 2.7% were Indian/Asian. The number of whites has been steadily decreasing as a percentage of the overall population, from 11% of the total in 1996. Migration was also a key issue covered in the census. The provinces that gained people were Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, the Western Cape, the Northern Cape and Mpumalanga, while the Eastern Cape, Limpopo, the Free State and the North West lost people. More people had access to services in 2022 than they did in 2011. Access to electricity rose to 90% of the country’s residents, up from 58% in 1996.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Penwell Dlamini & Nicki Gules at BusinessLive
- Read too, Census 2022: 62 million people now live in SA, at The Citizen
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