South Africa Analytics

LANGUAGES

Official Language:
1. English : 5,800,000
2. Northern Sotho : 4,700,000

Mother Tongue : English

Literacy Rate (%) : 95.00

Country Capital	:	Pretoria
GDP Per capita	:	16,009
GDP Per Capita Rank	:	106^th/195
Life Expectancy	:	66
Unemployment Rate	:	32
Number of Internet Users	:	47,530,029
Internet Users Rank	:	23^rd/195
Area	:	1,220,807
Area Rank	:	23^rd/195
Total Population	:	64,747
Total Population Rank	:	24^th/195

Continent: Africa

Cities with > 100K popln: 33

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South Africa Highlights

South Africa is the 24^th ranked country in population and 23^rd ranked in area out of 195 countries in the world.Please keep the country rank in perspective, for the highlights below.

Better than World Average-

1. South Africa is the 1^st highest ranked in Northern Sotho out of 195 countries in the world. This implies that this country has significantly more people speaking Northern Sotho when compared to other countries.
2. The average Sotho of 195 countries in the world is 33,988. South Africa is the 1^st highest ranked country out of 195 countries. This implies that this country has significantly more people speaking Sotho when compared to other countries.
3. Out of the 195 countries in the world, South Africa is the 1^st highest ranked in Swazi . This implies that this country has significantly more people speaking Swazi when compared to other countries.

Worse than World Average-

1. South Africa is the 90^th worst ranked in GDP Per Capita (USD) out of 195 countries in the world. This implies that this country is a developing country.
2. The average Rice prod. of the countries in the world is 6,981,685. South Africa is the 94^th worst-ranked country out of 195 countries. This is indicative of less focus on the production of rice, or scarcity of fertile land, or higher industrialisation as compared to other countries.
3. Out of the 195 countries in the world, South Africa is the 102^nd worst ranked in Natural Gas Prod. . This indicates that natural resources are scarce in this country when compared to other countries, and it may be a huge importer of such resources.

South Africa Metrics

Culture

Nature

Internet

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Northern Sotho	# People	24,102	1	1130
2	Sotho	# People	33,988	1	1127
3	Swazi	# People	11,794	1	1128
4	Afrikaans as a % of total Afrikaans speakers	% People	0	1	1128
5	Northern Sotho as a % of total Northern Sotho speakers	% People	0	1	1129
6	Swazi as a % of total Swazi speakers	% People	0	1	1130
7	Tsonga as a % of total Tsonga speakers	% People	0	1	1128
8	Tswana as a % of total Tswana speakers	% People	0	1	1125
9	Zulu as a % of total Zulu speakers	% People	0	1	1129
10	Ndebele	# People	20,528	2	1126
11	Venda	# People	15,384	2	1127
12	Xhosa	# People	12,820	2	1125
13	Ndebele as a % of total Ndebele speakers	% People	0	2	1126
14	Sotho as a % of total Sotho speakers	% People	0	2	1130
15	Venda as a % of total Venda speakers	% People	0	2	1127
16	Xhosa as a % of total Xhosa speakers	% People	0	2	1128
17	English	# People	3,175,743	10	1125
18	English as a % of total English speakers	% People	0	11	1126
Below than World Average-
1	Standard Chinese	# People	6,821,357	31	1233
2	Swahili	# People	104,667	16	1231
3	Telugu	# People	536,655	14	1232
4	Telugu as a % of total Telugu speakers	% People	0	12	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Cricket Playing Nations (ICC Members)	Count	1	1	1126
2	Christian Population	# People	11,885,917	14	1125
3	Christian Pop./Total Christian Pop.%	% People	0	14	1128
4	# Oscar Wins – Best International Feature Film		0	16	1130
5	Share of Best International Feature Film Wins (% World)		0	16	1129
6	World Heritage Sites	Count	7	27	1128
7	Christian Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	42	66	1130
Below than World Average-
1	Islamic Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	22	124	1232
2	Islamic Pop./Total Islamic Pop.%	% People	0	76	1230
3	Islamic Population	# People	9,936,734	77	1232
4	# Olympic Medals	Count	157	36	1233
5	Jewish Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	0	24	1233
6	Jewish Population	# People	78,295	11	1234
7	Jewish Pop./Total Jewish Pop. %	% People	0	11	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Tree density.	Density	9	1	1125
2	Tree density .	Density	8	1	1126
3	Flourite prod.	Tons	231,501	3	1128
4	Flourite Produced/Total Flourite Produced %	Weight	4	3	1128
5	Coal Production (in 1000 metric tons)	Weight	121,850	6	1129
6	Coal Production (% of Total Coal Production)	Percent	1	6	1128
7	Iron Production (in 1000 metric tons)	Weight	33,258	7	1125
8	Iron Production (% of Total Iron Production)	Percent	2	7	1130
9	Cow Beef Production (in tonnes)	Weight	320,761	12	1130
10	Apple Production (in tonnes)	Weight	1,044,287	12	1127
11	Cow Beef Production (% of Total Cow Beef Production)	Percent	0	12	1126
12	Apple Production (% of Total Apple Production)	Percent	1	12	1129
13	Orange Production (in tonnes)	Weight	618,959	13	1126
14	Orange Production (% of Total Orange Production)	Percent	0	13	1129
15	Chicken Meat Production (in tonnes)	Weight	588,164	14	1125
16	Chicken Meat Production (% of Total Chicken Meat Production)	Percent	0	14	1125
17	Number of Cows	Count	8,697,624	28	1130
18	Cows (% of Total Cows)	Percent	0	28	1127
19	Number of Trees	Count	15,642,617,148	30	1127
Below than World Average-
1	Rice prod.	Tons	6,981,685	102	1230
2	Natural Gas Prod.	Million cubic meters	216,389	77	1233
3	Oil Prod.	Barrels/day	4,369,531	86	1235
4	Honey Produced /Total Honey Produced %	Weight	0	77	1230
5	Honey prod.	Tons	16,211	77	1230
6	Goat Meat Production (in tonnes)	Weight	46,111	50	1235
7	Goat Meat Production (% of Total Goat Meat Production)	Percent	0	50	1232
8	Barley prod.	Tons	1,576,534	46	1230
9	Sweet Potatoes prod.	Tons	895,180	46	1231
10	Barley Produced/Total Barley Produced.%	Weight	1	46	1230
11	Sweet Potatoes Produced/Total Sweet Potatoes Produced %	Weight	0	45	1233
12	Cotton Production (% of Total Cotton Production)	Percent	1	40	1230
13	Forest Area.	Area	21,142,892	40	1231
14	Country forest area / Global Forest area %		0	39	1232
15	Cotton Production (in 1000 480 lb. Bales)	Weight	1,707	40	1232
16	Wheat prod.	Tons	6,698,590	39	1234
17	Wheat Produced /Total Wheat Produced. %.	Weight	0	38	1232
18	Cow Milk Production (in tonnes)	Weight	3,855,383	32	1233
19	Cow Milk Production (% of Total Cow Milk Production)	Percent	0	32	1232
20	Onion prod.	Tons	773,539	27	1230
21	Onion Produced/Total Onion Produced %	Weight	0	27	1230
22	Potatoes Produced /Total Potatoes Produced %	Weight	0	25	1231
23	Potatoes prod.	Tons	2,538,925	25	1231
24	Sugarcane prod.	Tons	52,039,862	13	1232
25	Sugarcane Produced/Total Sugarcane Produced.%	Weight	2	13	1232
26	Soyabean prod.	Tons	3,684,006	12	1231
27	Soyabean Produced/Total Soyabean Produced %	Weight	1	12	1230
28	Uranium prod.	Tons	2,516	11	1233
29	Uranium Produced/Total Uranium Produced %	Weight	5	11	1235
30	Gold Prod.	Weight	125	8	1235
31	Gold Produced/Total Gold Produced %.		4	8	1230
32	Diamond prod.	Tons	10	4	1232
33	Diamond Produced/Total Diamond Produced %	Weight	10	4	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Unemployment Rate.	% People	7	2	1127
2	Unemployed Labour Force.	# People	1,511,199	3	1125
3	Formal Jobs	# People	10,605,934	18	1128
4	Labour Force Participation	# People	14,659,929	23	1130
5	Total Labour Force (2021)	# People	20,409,734	25	1129
6	Employment in Services	# People	10,251,634	25	1127
7	Non-Agricultural Labour Force	# People	15,067,127	25	1128
8	Wage & Salaried Workers / Total Labour Force %	% People	58	41	1127
9	Employment in Services / Total Labour Force %.	% People	56	74	1128
10	Employment in services/Total Labour force %.	% People	56	74	1126
11	Employment in Services /Total pop.%.	% People	25	74	1125
12	Total Labour Force/Total Pop.	% People	43	88	1130
13	Non-Agri Labour force/Total Labour force %.	% People	76	94	1127
Below than World Average-
1	Employment in Agri. / Total Labour Force % .	% People	23	84	1233
2	Employment in Agriculture/Total Labour force %.	% People	23	84	1230
3	Employment in Agriculture /Total Pop. %.	% People	9	76	1233
4	Employment in Agriculture	# People	5,314,003	29	1234

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	# Cities>5M	# Cities	0	9	1125
2	# Cities>5M	# Cities	0	11	1130
3	# Cities>1M	# Cities	1	17	1130
4	Urban Population (2021)	# People	23,726,053	20	1125
5	# Cities>1M	# Cities	2	20	1125
6	# Cities>500000	# Cities	5	24	1127
7	# Cities>300000	# Cities	7	25	1129
8	# Cities>500000	# Cities	4	25	1127
9	# Cities>300000	# Cities	8	29	1126
10	Rural Pop.	# People	18,013,759	29	1125
11	# Cities>100000	# Cities	21	31	1125
12	# Cities>100000	# Cities	23	32	1125
13	Urban Population / Total Population % .	% People	60	77	1127
14	Pop. with access to Electricity (%)	% People	86	139	1130
15	Pop. without Electricity access	# People	3,455,508	26	1127
Below than World Average-
1	Rural Pop. /Total Pop. %	% People	40	119	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	# Phone Numbers /Total Pop. %	Percent	101	10	1128
2	# Mobile phone numbers	Count	40,393,496	17	1126

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	LinkedIn users	# People	6,388,891	17	1129
2	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total LinkedIn Users	% People	0	17	1128
3	Internet Users	# People	28,408,774	23	1130
4	Facebook users	# People	6,757,917	29	1128
5	Facebook Users as a % of Total facebook Users	% People	0	29	1129
6	Twitter users	# People	3,173,740	31	1130
7	Twitter Users as a % of Total Twitter Users	% People	0	31	1128
8	Int. Users / Total Pop.%	% People	70	108	1127
Below than World Average-
1	FB Users / Total Int. Users %.	% People	31	127	1235
2	FB Users / Total Pop. %.	% People	25	123	1235
3	Facebook CPC in Rs.	Absolute	5	117	1234
4	Twitter Users as a % of Total Internet Users	% People	14	100	1230
5	Twitter Users as a % of Total Population	% People	13	96	1232
6	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Population	% People	31	74	1234
7	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Internet Users	% People	35	67	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Police Officers	# People	138,224	22	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Military Force/Total Pop. %	% People	1	140	1232
2	Military Force/Total World Military Force %.	% People	0	71	1233
3	Total Military Force	# People	358,465	73	1230
4	Judges Per 100K	People Per 100K	11	66	1234
5	Military Budget (in Billion $)	$ Billion	15	51	1233
6	Military Budget/Total World Military Budget %.	Percent	0	50	1234
7	Lawyers Per 100K	People Per 100K	160	34	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Total Literate Pop.	# People	34,678,001	23	1129
2	Literacy Rate (%)	% People	86	102	1129
Below than World Average-
1	# Students per teacher in secondary edu.	Ratio	31	1	1232
2	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu/Total Literate Pop. %.	% People	9	108	1235
3	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu./ Total Pop. %.	% People	9	105	1230
4	# Students per teacher in Primary edu.	Ratio	260	74	1230
5	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Literate Pop.	% People	28	72	1235
6	Enrolment in Primary Edu./ Total Literate Pop %.	% People	36	63	1230
7	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	23	57	1234
8	Enrolment in Primary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	27	53	1235
9	Teachers in secondary edu.	# People	659,923	36	1231
10	Enrolment in tertiary edu.(all programmes)	# People	4,618,191	35	1234
11	# Total Students (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	38,831,325	19	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Total Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	42,003	24	1125
2	Male Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	21,226	24	1128
3	Female Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	20,993	24	1129
4	Births	# People (In Thousands)	681	24	1125
5	Female % of Total Pop.	% People	50	33	1127
6	Population Growth Rate (%)	% People	0	83	1126
7	Total Deaths	# People (In Thousands)	319	22	1127
Below than World Average-
1	Male % of Total Pop.	% People	50	114	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Import Ban(Number of products)	Count	12	27	1127
2	FDI (millions USD)	Amount	3,115	49	1127
3	FDI / Total FDI of the World %.		0	49	1130
4	Corporate Tax Rates in %	Rate	23	62	1126
Below than World Average-
1	Imports /Total GDP of the Country %.		53	116	1232
2	GDP Per Capita (USD)	$	30,070	106	1234
3	Exports/Total GDP of the Country %.		46	96	1234
4	Import of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	183,299	41	1230
5	Export of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	186,399	41	1235
6	Imports/Total Imports of the World %.		0	41	1230
7	Exports /Total Exports of the World %.		0	40	1232
8	GDP (Billions USD) 2025	$ Billions	613	39	1235
9	GDP as a % of Total GDP	Percent	0	38	1230
10	No. of Companies Listed in NYSE	Count	65	17	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	No. of people HIV infected/Total pop.	# People	5,202	1	1126
Below than World Average-
1	Life Expectancy at Birth, both sexes	Age	73	161	1234
2	Total No. of Pharmacists	# People	19,528	68	1233
3	Total No. of Doctors	# People	78,648	44	1233

South Africa Language Details

Sr.	Language	% of people speaking the language in country.
1	Standard Chinese	0.03 %
2	Telugu	0.01 %

Sr.	City	Total City Population (2023)
1	Benoni	178,997
2	Bloemfontein	523,767
3	Botshabelo	204,840
4	Cape Town	3,867,941
5	Carletonville	168,088
6	Durban	3,140,799
7	East London	333,245
8	Embalenhle	134,042
9	Evaton	682,611
10	George	177,445
11	Johannesburg	8,861,879
12	Kimberley	253,879
13	Klerksdorp	213,633
14	Ladysmith	134,944
15	Mdantsane	193,341
16	Middelburg	184,660
17	Mthatha	155,123
18	Newcastle	328,623
19	Paarl	222,877
20	Pietermaritzburg	535,717
21	Polokwane	256,360
22	Port Elizabeth	988,010
23	Potchefstroom	167,750
24	Pretoria	1,987,858
25	Rustenburg	351,621
26	Sasolburg	127,842
27	Somerset West	211,942
28	Soshanguve	820,824
29	Stanger	151,629
30	Uitenhage	273,834
31	Vereeniging	426,026
32	Welkom	237,871
33	Witbank	351,395