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Key facts

  • Currency: South African rand
  • Capital city: Pretoria
  • Region: Southern Africa
  • Continent: Africa
  • Land area: 1,213,090 km²
  • Population: 59,893,885
  • Political Leader: Cyril Ramaphosa (President)

Latest news

At least 45 people killed after bus plunges into South Africa ravine

Read: Al Jazeera

2024-03-29

South Africa bus crash kills 45, young girl the only survivor

Read: NZ Herald

2024-03-28

45 dead in South Africa after a bus plunges off a bridge

Read: Le Monde

2024-03-28

Horror South Africa bus crash kills 45 and girl, 8, is sole survivor after driver lost control

Read: Mirror

2024-03-28

Bus in South Africa plunges off bridge, killing 45

Read: CBS

2024-03-28

South Africa Bus Crash Kills 45, but 8-Year-old Survives

Read: The New York Times

2024-03-28

Girl, 8, sole survivor as 45 killed after bus plunges down ravine in South Africa

Read: The Sydney Morning Herald

2024-03-28

Metrics

Business

Central government debt 75.42 % of GDP
Expense 34.16 % of GDP
GDP 405,271,000,000.00 current US$
Inflation 7.04 annual %
Self-employed 28.99 % of total employment
Tax revenue 25.85 % of GDP
Unemployment 28.84 % of total labor force
Vulnerable employment 24.22 % of total employment


Environment

Agricultural land 963,410.00 km²
Alternative and nuclear energy 2.66 % of total energy use
Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) 393,242.00 kt
Electricity production from coal sources 92.71 % of total
Electricity production from natural gas sources 0.00 % of total
Electricity production from hydroelectric sources 0.32 % of total
Electricity production from nuclear sources 5.53 % of total
Electricity production from oil sources 0.07 % of total
Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric 1.93 % of total
Net energy imports -14.48 % of energy use
Fertility rate 2.37 births per woman
Forest area 170,137 km²
Fossil fuel energy consumption 86.79 % of total
Other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 49,022.20 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Median age 23.30 years
Methane emissions 72,213.20 kt of CO2 equivalent
Nitrous oxide emissions 17,993.00 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Female Population 30,725,879
Male Population 29,168,006
Renewable energy consumption 9.76 % of total final energy consumption
Rural land area 1,204,430.00 km²
Rural population 18,965,399
Urban land area 15,118.70 km²
Urban population 40,928,486
Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters 0.11 % of total population


Health

Birth rate 19.82 per 1,000 people
Death rate 11.43 per 1,000 people
Health expenditure per capita 489.64 current US$
Health expenditure 8.58 % of GDP
Incidence of HIV 4.19 per 1,000 uninfected population
Hospital beds 2.30 per 1,000 people
Life expectancy at birth 62 years
Suicide mortality rate 23.50 per 100,000 population


Other

Access to electricity 89.30 % of population
Individuals using the Internet 72.31 % of population
Net migration 58,496
Press freedom 3.52


Politics

Armed forces personnel 89,000
Democracy score 7.24
Democracy type Flawed democracy
Military expenditure 0.74 % of GDP
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments 46.50 %


Visualizations

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Datasets

Source

SIPRI, World Bank

Updated: 1 day ago

License

CC BY 4.0

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