| GENERAL
STATISTICS
Population:
43,426,386
(January 2000 est.) Note: South Africa took a census 10 October 1996 which
showed a population of 37,859,000 (after a 6.8% adjustment for underenumeration
based on a post-enumeration survey); this figure is still about 10% below
projections from earlier censuses; since the full results of that census
have not been released for analysis, the numbers shown for South Africa
do not take into consideration the results of this 1996 census
Ethnic groups:
black 75.2%,
white 13.6%, Colored 8.6%, Indian 2.6%
Religions:
Christian
68% (includes most whites and Coloreds, about 60% of blacks and about 40%
of Indians), Muslim 2%, Hindu 1.5% (60% of Indians), Traditional religionist
28.5%
Languages:
11 official
languages, including Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga,
Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu |
