People over 65 in South Africa

Nearby in the ranking

11. Costa Rica 10.0%
12. Tunisia 9.5%
13. Dominican Rep. 8.3%
14. South Africa 8.2%
15. Suriname 7.7%
16. Algeria 7.7%
17. Timor-Leste 7.6%

More about South Africa

• Population
• Population growth
• Births per woman
• Typical age
• Living in cities
• Human Development Index
• Women’s vs men’s development
• People per household
• Children under 15
• Women’s age at first marriage
• Mothers’ age at first birth
• All figures for South Africa

About the data

Unit

% of population

Years

1992–2023

Data as of

2026-09-28

Source

Global Data Lab

License

Free for non-commercial use with credit; commercial use needs written permission from the Global Data Lab

Credit

Data retrieved from the Demographics database of the Global Data Lab (v2.1), https://globaldatalab.org/demographics/