South Africa
66 figures for South Africa, each the latest the source has. Pick one to see how South Africa compares.
Economy
- GDP per person $6,598 (2025)
- GDP per person, price-adjusted $15,906 (2025)
- Economic growth +1.1% (2025)
- Unemployment 32.4% (2025)
- Inflation +4.4% (2024)
- Exports 31.8% (2024)
- Income per person $13,698 (2023)
- Household wealth 72.7 (2019)
- Poorer households 15.3% (2019)
- Wealth inequality 0.15 (2019)
- Women in paid work 32.4% (2019)
People
- Population 63.2 million (2023)
- Population growth +1.15% (2025)
- Births per woman 2.21 (2024)
- Typical age 28.2 (2023)
- Living in cities 63.8% (2025)
- Human Development Index 0.741 (2023)
- Women’s vs men’s development 0.996 (2023)
- People per household 5.3 (2019)
- People over 65 8.2% (2019)
- Children under 15 31.5% (2019)
- Women’s age at first marriage 24.3 (2019)
- Mothers’ age at first birth 20.8 (2019)
Health
- Life expectancy 66.1 (2023)
- Child deaths (under 5) 35.1 (2024)
- Mothers dying in childbirth 118 (2023)
- Health spending per person $537 (2023)
- Measles vaccination 76% (2024)
- Overweight adults 55.1% (2022)
- Stunted children 26.1% (2019)
- Overweight children 15.6% (2019)
- Homes with piped water 74.8% (2019)
- Homes with a flush toilet 36.4% (2019)
Education
- Years of schooling 11.6 (2023)
- Expected years in school 13.8 (2023)
- Secondary school enrollment 104.1% (2023)
- Education spending 6.2% (2022)
- Teens in school 94.0% (2019)
Environment
- CO₂ per person 6.87 (2024)
- Total CO₂ emissions 440 million (2024)
- Forest cover 14.0% (2023)
- Air pollution (PM2.5) 24.4 (2024)
- Renewable energy share 9.7% (2021)
- Average temperature 18.0 (2022)
Energy
- Energy use per person 1,939 (2023)
- Access to electricity 90.2% (2024)
- Renewable electricity 12.5% (2024)
- Nuclear electricity 3.2% (2024)
- Coal electricity 83.6% (2024)
- Cooking with wood or dung 10.8% (2019)
Technology
- Internet users 78.4% (2024)
- Mobile phone subscriptions 160.7 (2022)
- Home broadband 3.1 (2022)
- Satellites by owner 2 (2026)
- Homes with internet 11.7% (2015)
- Homes with a mobile phone 99.8% (2019)
Food and farming
- Hunger 10.0% (2023)
- Cereal yield 5,703 (2023)
- Farmland 79.4% (2023)
- Jobs in farming 5.4% (2025)
Government
- Electoral democracy 0.74 (2025)
- Human rights 0.86 (2025)
- Control of corruption −0.13 (2025)
- Women in parliament 44.9% (2025)
- Military spending 0.7% (2024)
- Clean government 51.5 (2022)