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 12 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

Details

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 3^rd highest ranked in HIV Infections (Per 1000) out of 195 countries in the world. This implies a poorer healthcare infrastructure in the country or lesser health awareness among people compared to other countries.
2. The average Flourite prod. of 195 countries in the world is 231,501. South Africa is the 3^rd highest ranked country out of 195 countries. This implies that the country has a robust aluminium/steel/ceramics industry or may be a huge exporter of Flourite.
3. Out of the 195 countries in the world, South Africa is the 3^rd highest ranked in Unemployed Labour Force. . This implies adequacy of job availability in this country when compared to other countries.

Worse than World Average-

1. South Africa is the 62^nd worst ranked in Pharmacists (Per 10,000) out of 195 countries in the world. This may indicate worse healthcare infrastructure investment by the country or may indicate lower population.
2. The average Doctors (Per 10,000) of the countries in the world is 20. South Africa is the 71^st worst-ranked country out of 195 countries. This may indicate worse healthcare infrastructure investment by the country or may indicate lower population.
3. Out of the 195 countries in the world, South Africa is the 90^th 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	1125
3	Swazi	# People	11,794	1	1126
4	Afrikaans as a % of total Afrikaans speakers	% People	0	1	1130
5	Northern Sotho as a % of total Northern Sotho speakers	% People	0	1	1127
6	Swazi as a % of total Swazi speakers	% People	0	1	1127
7	Tsonga as a % of total Tsonga speakers	% People	0	1	1125
8	Tswana as a % of total Tswana speakers	% People	0	1	1127
9	Zulu as a % of total Zulu speakers	% People	0	1	1126
10	Ndebele	# People	20,528	2	1126
11	Venda	# People	15,384	2	1127
12	Xhosa	# People	12,820	2	1129
13	Ndebele as a % of total Ndebele speakers	% People	0	2	1125
14	Sotho as a % of total Sotho speakers	% People	0	2	1128
15	Venda as a % of total Venda speakers	% People	0	2	1125
16	Xhosa as a % of total Xhosa speakers	% People	0	2	1129
17	English	# People	3,175,743	10	1130
18	English as a % of total English speakers	% People	0	11	1129
Below than World Average-
1	Standard Chinese	# People	6,821,357	31	1231
2	Swahili	# People	104,667	16	1234
3	Telugu	# People	536,655	14	1233
4	Telugu as a % of total Telugu speakers	% People	0	12	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Cricket Playing Nations (ICC Members)	Count	1	1	1125
2	Christian Population	# People	11,885,917	14	1129
3	World Heritage Sites	Count	7	27	1127
Below than World Average-
1	Islamic Population	# People	9,936,734	77	1233
2	# Olympic Medals	Count	157	36	1231
3	Jewish Population	# People	78,295	11	1234

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Unemployment Rate.	% People	7	2	1126
2	Unemployed Labour Force.	# People	1,511,199	3	1127
3	Formal Jobs	# People	10,605,934	18	1126
4	Labour Force Participation	# People	14,659,929	23	1128
5	Total Labour Force (2023)	# People	20,409,734	25	1125
6	Employment in Services	# People	10,251,634	25	1127
7	Non-Agricultural Labour Force	# People	15,067,127	25	1127
8	Wage & Salaried Workers / Total Labour Force %	% People	58	44	1127
9	Employment in services/Total Labour force %.	% People	56	70	1129
10	Employment in Services / Total Labour Force %.	% People	56	74	1127
11	Employment in Services /Total pop.%.	% People	25	74	1127
12	Total Labour Force/Total Pop.	% People	43	87	1130
13	Non-Agri Labour force/Total Labour force %.	% People	76	93	1129
Below than World Average-
1	Employment in Agri. / Total Labour Force % .	% People	23	84	1230
2	Employment in Agriculture/Total Labour force %.	% People	23	84	1230
3	Employment in Agriculture /Total Pop. %.	% People	9	76	1232
4	Employment in Agriculture	# People	5,314,003	29	1235
5	Teachers in primary edu.	# People	357,113	23	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	HIV Infections (Per 1000)	People Per 1,000	0	3	1128
2	No. of people HIV infected/Total pop.	# People	5,202	1	1129
Below than World Average-
1	Life Expectancy at Birth, both sexes	Age	73	161	1231
2	Pharmacists (Per 10,000)	People Per 10,000	4	134	1230
3	Nurses to doctor ratio	Ratio	46	127	1231
4	Doctors (Per 10,000)	People Per 10,000	20	125	1233
5	Total No. of Pharmacists	# People	19,528	68	1231
6	Total Nursing	# People	163,061	48	1232
7	Nurses(per 10000)	People per 10000	164,032	48	1231
8	Total No. of Doctors	# People	78,648	44	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Flourite prod.	Tons	231,501	3	1129
2	Flourite Produced/Total Flourite Produced %	Weight	4	3	1128
3	Number of Trees	Count	15,642,617,148	30	1129
Below than World Average-
1	Diamond Produced/Total Diamond Produced %	Weight	10	4	1231
2	Uranium Produced/Total Uranium Produced %	Weight	5	11	1233
3	Gold Produced/Total Gold Produced %.		4	8	1232
4	Tree density.	Density	22,685	113	1231
5	Rice prod.	Tons	6,981,685	102	1235
6	Natural Gas Prod.	Million cubic meters	216,389	77	1234
7	Oil Prod.	Barrels/day	4,369,531	86	1235
8	Honey Produced /Total Honey Produced %	Weight	0	77	1233
9	Honey prod.	Tons	16,211	77	1232
10	Tree density .	Density	828	75	1235
11	Barley prod.	Tons	1,576,534	46	1230
12	Sweet Potatoes prod.	Tons	895,180	46	1235
13	Barley Produced/Total Barley Produced.%	Weight	1	46	1232
14	Sweet Potatoes Produced/Total Sweet Potatoes Produced %	Weight	0	45	1230
15	Forest Area.	Area	21,142,892	40	1235
16	Country forest area / Global Forest area %		0	39	1235
17	Wheat prod.	Tons	6,698,590	39	1234
18	Wheat Produced /Total Wheat Produced. %.	Weight	0	38	1233
19	Onion prod.	Tons	773,539	27	1231
20	Onion Produced/Total Onion Produced %	Weight	0	27	1232
21	Potatoes Produced /Total Potatoes Produced %	Weight	0	25	1232
22	Potatoes prod.	Tons	2,538,925	25	1235
23	Sugarcane prod.	Tons	52,039,862	13	1235
24	Sugarcane Produced/Total Sugarcane Produced.%	Weight	2	13	1232
25	Soyabean prod.	Tons	3,684,006	12	1234
26	Soyabean Produced/Total Soyabean Produced %	Weight	1	12	1232
27	Uranium prod.	Tons	2,516	11	1231
28	Gold Prod.	Weight	125	8	1231
29	Diamond prod.	Tons	10	4	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	# Cities>5M	# Cities	0	9	1129
2	# Cities>5M	# Cities	0	11	1130
3	# Cities>1M	# Cities	1	17	1129
4	Urban Population	# People	23,726,053	20	1128
5	# Cities>1M	# Cities	2	20	1129
6	1M+ Cities per 100000 ( 1M+ Cities/ Tot Pop.)* 100000		0	20	1130
7	# Cities>500000	# Cities	5	24	1130
8	# Cities>300000	# Cities	7	25	1130
9	# Cities>500000	# Cities	4	25	1130
10	# Cities>300000	# Cities	8	29	1130
11	Rural Pop.	# People	18,013,759	29	1128
12	# Cities>100000	# Cities	21	31	1130
13	# Cities>100000	# Cities	23	32	1125
14	Urban Population / Total Population % .	% People	60	77	1129
15	Pop. with access to Electricity (%)	% People	86	139	1125
16	Pop. without Electricity access	# People	3,455,508	26	1126
Below than World Average-
1	Rural Pop. /Total Pop. %	% People	40	116	1234
2	1M+ Cities Ratio ( 1M+ Cities/ # Cities> 100000)		0	52	1235

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	1130

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Christian Pop./Total Christian Pop.%	% People	0	14	1129
2	Christian Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	42	66	1125
Below than World Average-
1	Islamic Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	22	124	1230
2	Islamic Pop./Total Islamic Pop.%	% People	0	76	1234
3	Jewish Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	0	24	1232
4	Jewish Pop./Total Jewish Pop. %	% People	0	11	1234

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	LinkedIn users	# People	6,064,509	16	1128
2	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total LinkedIn Users	% People	0	16	1127
3	Internet Users	# People	28,408,774	23	1129
4	Facebook users	# People	7,174,483	28	1130
5	Facebook Users as a % of Total facebook Users	% People	0	28	1130
6	Int. Users / Total Pop.%	% People	70	108	1127
Below than World Average-
1	FB Users / Total Int. Users %.	% People	33	124	1230
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	15	105	1232
5	Twitter Users as a % of Total Population	% People	14	99	1232
6	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Population	% People	30	75	1231
7	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Internet Users	% People	33	68	1234
8	Twitter users	# People	3,179,254	32	1231
9	Twitter Users as a % of Total Twitter Users	% People	0	32	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Police Officers	# People	138,224	22	1127
Below than World Average-
1	Military Force/Total Pop. %	% People	1	140	1235
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	1230
5	Military Budget (in Billion $)	$ Billion	15	51	1233
6	Military Budget/Total World Military Budget %.	Percent	0	50	1232
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	1128
2	Literacy Rate (%)	% People	86	99	1125
Below than World Average-
1	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu/Total Literate Pop. %.	% People	9	108	1233
2	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu./ Total Pop. %.	% People	9	105	1232
3	# Students per teacher in Primary edu.	Ratio	260	74	1231
4	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Literate Pop.	% People	28	72	1235
5	Enrolment in Primary Edu./ Total Literate Pop %.	% People	36	63	1232
6	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	23	57	1230
7	Enrolment in Primary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	27	53	1231
8	Teachers in secondary edu.	# People	659,923	36	1230
9	Enrolment in tertiary edu.(all programmes)	# People	4,618,191	35	1235
10	Enrolment in secondary edu.	# People	9,727,510	23	1235
11	Enrolment in primary edu.	# People	9,629,078	19	1230
12	# Total Students (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	38,831,325	19	1235
13	# Students per teacher in secondary edu.	Ratio	57	18	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Total Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	42,003	24	1126
2	Male Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	21,226	24	1129
3	Female Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	20,993	24	1127
4	Births	# People (In Thousands)	681	24	1126
5	Female % of Total Pop.	% People	50	38	1129
6	Gender Ratio	Ratio of female per male, Country total female/ Country total male	1	38	1129
7	Population Growth Rate (%)	% People	0	83	1126
8	Total Deaths	# People (In Thousands)	319	22	1129
Below than World Average-
1	Male % of Total Pop.	% People	50	156	1234
2	Density ( Pop/Land Area Ratio)	Density	312	133	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 (millions USD)	Amount	3,115	49	1126
3	FDI / Total FDI of the World %.		0	49	1130
4	Corporate Tax Rates in %	Rate	23	62	1125
Below than World Average-
1	Imports /Total GDP of the Country %.		53	116	1235
2	GDP Per Capita (USD)	$	30,070	106	1230
3	Exports/Total GDP of the Country %.		46	96	1232
4	Import of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	183,299	41	1232
5	Export of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	186,399	41	1230
6	Imports/Total Imports of the World %.		0	41	1233
7	Exports /Total Exports of the World %.		0	40	1233
8	GDP (Billions USD)	$ Billions	613	39	1231
9	GDP as a % of Total GDP	Percent	0	38	1230
10	No. of Companies Listed in NYSE	Count	65	17	1232

South Africa Language Details

Sr.	Language	% of people speaking the language in country.
1	English	8.96 %
2	Northern Sotho	7.26 %
3	Sotho	7.09 %
4	Swazi	3.55 %
5	Venda	2.01 %
6	Ndebele	1.96 %
7	Xhosa	1.24 %
8	Standard Chinese	0.03 %
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