South Africa Analytics

South Africa is a large country with 0.8% of the world's population. South Africa is a democratic republic country. It has 10 world heritage sites. It is rich in resources and has 4.5% of Fluorite and 9.2% of Diamonds, of the World.

LANGUAGES

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

Mother Tongue : English

Literacy Rate (%) : 95.00

Details

Country Capital	:	Pretoria
GDP Per capita	:	6,766
GDP Per Capita Rank	:	93^rd/195
Life Expectancy	:	62
Unemployment Rate	:	33
Number of Internet Users	:	42,480,000
Internet Users Rank	:	24^th/195
Area	:	1,220,807
Area Rank	:	23^rd/195
Total Population	:	59,392
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 3^rd highest ranked in Flourite prod. out of 195 countries in the world. This implies that the country has a robust aluminium/steel/ceramics industry or may be a huge exporter of Flourite.
2. The average Unemployed Labour Force. of 195 countries in the world is 1,648,234. South Africa is the 5^th highest ranked country out of 195 countries. This implies adequacy of job availability in this country when compared to other countries.
3. Out of the 195 countries in the world, South Africa is the 23^rd highest ranked in Urban Population (2021) . This implies that there is higher economic development or may imply that the formal economy of the country is more compared to other countries

Worse than World Average-

1. South Africa is the 94^th worst ranked in Rice prod. out of 195 countries in the world. This is indicative of less focus on the production of rice, or scarcity of fertile land, or higher industrialisation as compared to other countries.
2. The average Natural Gas Prod. of the countries in the world is 216,389. South Africa is the 102^nd worst-ranked country out of 195 countries. 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.
3. Out of the 195 countries in the world, South Africa is the 103^rd worst ranked in GDP Per Capita (USD) . This implies that this country is a developing country.

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	1129
2	Sotho	# People	33,988	1	1126
3	Swazi	# People	11,794	1	1128
4	Xhosa	# People	9,743	1	1127
5	Afrikaans as a % of total Afrikaans speakers	% People	0	1	1128
6	Northern Sotho as a % of total Northern Sotho speakers	% People	0	1	1127
7	Swazi as a % of total Swazi speakers	% People	0	1	1130
8	Tsonga as a % of total Tsonga speakers	% People	0	1	1128
9	Tswana as a % of total Tswana speakers	% People	0	1	1125
10	Zulu as a % of total Zulu speakers	% People	0	1	1129
11	Ndebele	# People	20,528	2	1130
12	Venda	# People	15,384	2	1128
13	Ndebele as a % of total Ndebele speakers	% People	0	2	1125
14	Sotho as a % of total Sotho speakers	% People	0	2	1130
15	Venda as a % of total Venda speakers	% People	0	2	1130
16	Xhosa as a % of total Xhosa speakers	% People	0	2	1125
17	English	# People	3,175,743	10	1127
18	English as a % of total English speakers	% People	0	11	1127
Below than World Average-
1	Standard Chinese	# People	6,821,357	31	1234
2	Swahili	# People	104,667	16	1235
3	Telugu	# People	536,655	14	1235
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	1128
2	Christian Population	# People	11,763,461	15	1129
3	World Heritage Sites	Count	7	31	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Islamic Population	# People	9,744,062	78	1233
2	# Olympic Medals	Count	126	33	1233
3	Jewish Population	# People	77,566	12	1234

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	1128
3	Flourite prod.	Tons	231,501	3	1127
4	Flourite Produced/Total Flourite Produced %	Tons	4	3	1125
5	Number of Trees	Count	9,751,992,148	30	1130
Below than World Average-
1	Rice prod.	Tons	5,090,580	102	1235
2	Natural Gas Prod.	Million cubic meters	216,389	77	1232
3	Oil Prod.	Barrels/day	4,369,531	86	1230
4	Honey Produced /Total Honey Produced %	Tons	0	77	1235
5	Honey prod.	Tons	16,211	77	1231
6	Barley prod.	Tons	1,576,534	46	1233
7	Sweet Potatoes prod.	Tons	895,180	46	1235
8	Barley Produced/Total Barley Produced.%	Tons	1	46	1232
9	Sweet Potatoes Produced/Total Sweet Potatoes Produced %	Tons	0	45	1234
10	Forest Area.	Area	21,142,892	40	1232
11	Country forest area / Global Forest area %		0	39	1232
12	Wheat prod.	Tons	6,698,590	39	1234
13	Wheat Produced /Total Wheat Produced. %.	Tons	0	38	1234
14	Onion prod.	Tons	773,539	27	1232
15	Onion Produced/Total Onion Produced %	Tons	0	27	1234
16	Potatoes Produced /Total Potatoes Produced %	Tons	0	25	1230
17	Potatoes prod.	Tons	2,538,925	25	1233
18	Sugarcane prod.	Tons	52,039,862	13	1235
19	Sugarcane Produced/Total Sugarcane Produced.%	Tons	2	13	1230
20	Soyabean prod.	Tons	3,684,006	12	1235
21	Soyabean Produced/Total Soyabean Produced %	Tons	1	12	1231
22	Uranium prod.	Tons	2,516	11	1233
23	Uranium Produced/Total Uranium Produced %	Tons	5	11	1234
24	Gold Prod.	Tons	125	8	1232
25	Gold Produced/Total Gold Produced %.		4	8	1235
26	Diamond prod.	Tons	10	4	1230
27	Diamond Produced/Total Diamond Produced %	Tons	10	4	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Unemployment Rate.	% People	13	2	1130
2	Unemployed Labour Force.	# People	1,648,234	5	1126
3	Labour Force Participation	# People	11,624,528	23	1127
4	Formal Jobs	# People	10,227,722	24	1129
5	Employment in Services	# People	9,747,273	27	1127
6	Total Labour Force (2021)	# People	19,636,200	28	1127
7	Non-Agricultural Labour Force	# People	14,402,736	28	1126
8	Wage & Salaried Workers / Total Labour Force %	% People	58	75	1128
9	Employment in Services / Total Labour Force %.	% People	55	79	1125
10	Employment in services/Total Labour force %.	% People	55	79	1129
11	Non-Agri Labour force/Total Labour force %.	% People	75	97	1130
Below than World Average-
1	Total Labour Force/Total Pop.	% People	43	118	1233
2	Employment in Services /Total pop.%.	% People	24	86	1231
3	Employment in Agri. / Total Labour Force % .	% People	24	82	1234
4	Employment in Agriculture/Total Labour force %.	% People	24	82	1230
5	Employment in Agriculture /Total Pop. %.	% People	9	77	1231
6	Employment in Agriculture	# People	5,233,463	30	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	# Cities>5M	# Cities	0	9	1130
2	# Cities>5M	# Cities	0	11	1125
3	# Cities>1M	# Cities	1	17	1125
4	# Cities>1M	# Cities	2	20	1128
5	Urban Population (2021)	# People	22,563,215	23	1127
6	# Cities>500000	# Cities	5	24	1126
7	# Cities>300000	# Cities	7	25	1126
8	# Cities>500000	# Cities	4	25	1126
9	# Cities>300000	# Cities	8	29	1129
10	Rural Pop.	# People	18,013,759	29	1129
11	# Cities>100000	# Cities	21	31	1125
12	# Cities>100000	# Cities	23	32	1130
13	Urban Population / Total Population % .	% People	59	79	1130
14	Pop. with access to Electricity (%)	% People	85	136	1125
15	Pop. without Electricity access	# People	3,489,572	31	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Rural Pop. /Total Pop. %	% People	41	118	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	# Phone Numbers /Total Pop. %	Percent	101	10	1130
2	# Mobile phone numbers	Count	40,393,496	17	1128

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Christian Pop./Total Christian Pop.%	% People	0	15	1126
2	Christian Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	42	74	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Islamic Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	22	123	1234
2	Islamic Pop./Total Islamic Pop.%	% People	0	75	1231
3	Jewish Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	0	18	1234
4	Jewish Pop./Total Jewish Pop. %	% People	0	12	1234

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	LinkedIn users	# People	6,064,509	16	1125
2	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total LinkedIn Users	% People	0	16	1126
3	Internet Users	# People	25,030,008	24	1128
4	Facebook users	# People	7,174,483	28	1128
5	Facebook Users as a % of Total facebook Users	% People	0	28	1128
6	Int. Users / Total Pop.%	% People	66	107	1127
Below than World Average-
1	FB Users / Total Int. Users %.	% People	35	122	1234
2	Facebook CPC in Rs.	Absolute	5	117	1233
3	FB Users / Total Pop. %.	% People	26	119	1231
4	Twitter Users as a % of Total Internet Users	% People	16	101	1230
5	Twitter Users as a % of Total Population	% People	14	99	1232
6	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Population	% People	30	75	1230
7	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Internet Users	% People	35	63	1232
8	Twitter users	# People	3,179,254	32	1234
9	Twitter Users as a % of Total Twitter Users	% People	0	32	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Police Officers	# People	138,224	22	1125
Below than World Average-
1	Military Force/Total Pop. %	% People	0	134	1230
2	Judges Per 100K	People Per 100K	11	66	1230
3	Military Force/Total World Military Force %.	% People	0	55	1232
4	Total Military Force	# People	122,909	55	1233
5	Military Budget (in Billion $)	$ Billion	15	51	1232
6	Military Budget/Total World Military Budget %.	Percent	0	50	1231
7	Lawyers Per 100K	People Per 100K	129	27	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Total Population (2021)	# People (In Thousands)	40,345	24	1130
2	Male Population	# People (In Thousands)	20,393	24	1126
3	Female Population	# People (In Thousands)	20,160	24	1130
4	Births	# People (In Thousands)	688	25	1130
5	Female % of Total Pop.	% People	49	32	1129
6	Total Deaths	# People (In Thousands)	355	20	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Male % of Total Pop.	% People	50	163	1230
2	Population Growth Rate (%)	% People	1	94	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Total Literate Pop.	# People	34,125,548	24	1130
2	Literacy Rate (%)	% People	86	102	1129
Below than World Average-
1	# Students per teacher in secondary edu.	Ratio	31	1	1230
2	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu/Total Literate Pop. %.	% People	9	108	1231
3	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu./ Total Pop. %.	% People	9	105	1235
4	# Students per teacher in Primary edu.	Ratio	260	74	1233
5	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Literate Pop.	% People	28	72	1235
6	Enrolment in Primary Edu./ Total Literate Pop %.	% People	36	63	1231
7	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	23	57	1234
8	Enrolment in Primary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	27	53	1232
9	Teachers in secondary edu.	# People	659,923	36	1235
10	Enrolment in tertiary edu.(all programmes)	# People	4,618,191	35	1232
11	# Total Students (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	38,831,325	19	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Import Ban(Number of products)	Count	12	27	1125
2	FDI / Total FDI of the World %.		0	38	1126
3	FDI (millions USD)	Amount	7,895	39	1127
Below than World Average-
1	Imports /Total GDP of the Country %.		52	112	1234
2	Exports/Total GDP of the Country %.		45	94	1235
3	GDP Per Capita (USD)	$	18,253	93	1230
4	Import of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	182,282	41	1234
5	Imports/Total Imports of the World %.		0	40	1234
6	GDP as a % of Total GDP	Percent	0	35	1232
7	GDP (Billions USD) 2022	$ Billions	531	37	1235
8	Export of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	184,833	37	1230
9	Exports /Total Exports of the World %.		0	37	1232
10	No. of Companies Listed in NYSE	Count	65	17	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Life Expectancy at Birth, both sexes	Age	71	163	1231
2	Total No. of Doctors	# People	73,975	41	1235

South Africa Language Details

Sr.	Language	% of people speaking the language in country.
1	English	9.77 %
2	Northern Sotho	7.91 %
3	Sotho	7.73 %
4	Swazi	3.87 %
5	Venda	2.19 %
6	Ndebele	2.14 %
7	Xhosa	1.35 %
8	Standard Chinese	0.04 %
9	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