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    South Africa has three capital cities - Pretoria is the administrative capital, Cape Town is the legislative capital, and Bloemfontein is the judicial capital. The population is around 58 million, with the majority being Black African. The main languages are isiZulu, isiXhosa, Afrikaans, Sepedi, Setswana, and English. Christianity is the dominant religion. The population is youthful but gradually aging as fertility rates decline from 6 to around 2 children per woman currently. HIV/AIDS was responsible for plunging life expectancy but it has since rebounded due to treatment programs.

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    South Africa has three capital cities - Pretoria is the administrative capital, Cape Town is the legislative capital, and Bloemfontein is the judicial capital. The population is around 58 million, with the majority being Black African. The main languages are isiZulu, isiXhosa, Afrikaans, Sepedi, Setswana, and English. Christianity is the dominant religion. The population is youthful but gradually aging as fertility rates decline from 6 to around 2 children per woman currently. HIV/AIDS was responsible for plunging life expectancy but it has since rebounded due to treatment programs.

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    South Africa has three capital cities - Pretoria is the administrative capital, Cape Town is the legislative capital, and Bloemfontein is the judicial capital. The population is around 58 million, with the majority being Black African. The main languages are isiZulu, isiXhosa, Afrikaans, Sepedi, Setswana, and English. Christianity is the dominant religion. The population is youthful but gradually aging as fertility rates decline from 6 to around 2 children per woman currently. HIV/AIDS was responsible for plunging life expectancy but it has since rebounded due to treatment programs.

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    South Africa has three capital cities - Pretoria is the administrative capital, Cape Town is the legislative capital, and Bloemfontein is the judicial capital. The population is around 58 million, with the majority being Black African. The main languages are isiZulu, isiXhosa, Afrikaans, Sepedi, Setswana, and English. Christianity is the dominant religion. The population is youthful but gradually aging as fertility rates decline from 6 to around 2 children per woman currently. HIV/AIDS was responsible for plunging life expectancy but it has since rebounded due to treatment programs.

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    SOUTH AFRICA

    Capital
    Pretoria (administrative capital); Cape Town (legislative
    capital); Bloemfontein (judicial capital)

    Ethnic Groups
    Black African 80.9%, Colored (persons of mixed race
    ancestry who developed a distinct cultural identity over
    several hundred years) 8.8%, White 7.8%, Indian/Asian
    2.6%

    Languages
    isiZulu (official) 25.3%, isiXhosa (official) 14.8%, Afrikaans
    (official) 12.2%, Sepedi (official) 10.1%, Setswana (official)
    9.1%, English (official) 8.1%, Sesotho (official) 7.9%,
    Xitsonga (official) 3.6%, siSwati (official) 2.8%, Tshivenda
    (official) 2.5%, isiNdebele (official) 1.6%, other 2%

    Religions
    Christian 86%, ancestral, tribal, animist, or other traditional
    African religions 5.4%, Muslim 1.9%, other 1.5%, nothing in
    particular 5.2%

    Population
    Total: 58 million
    Median age: 28 years
    Population growth rate: 0.91%
    Urban: 68.8%
    Rural 31.2%

    Fertility
    Birth rate: 18.24 births/1,000 population
    Total fertility rate: 2.17 children born/woman
    Sex ratio of population: 0.98 male(s)/female

    Mortality
    Death rate: 9.25 deaths/1,000 population
    Life expectancy at birth: 65.6 years
    Maternal mortality rate: 119 deaths/100,000 live births
    Infant mortality rate: 24.99 deaths/1,000 live births
    SOUTH AFRICA Age Structure

    Migration
    Net migration rate: 0.11 migrants/1,000 population

    Health
    Current health expenditure: 8.6% of GDP
    Physician density: 0.79 physicians/1,000 population
    Adult obesity: 28.3% Population Distribution
    Alcohol consumption per capita: 7.21 liters of pure alcohol

    Education
    Education expenditures: 6.6% of GDP
    Literacy: 95%

    Population Distribution
    the population concentrated along the southern and
    southeastern coast, and inland around Pretoria; the eastern
    half of the country is more densely populated than the west

    Demographic Profile
    South Africa’s youthful population is gradually aging, as the country’s total fertility rate (TFR) has declined dramatically from
    about 6 children per woman in the 1960s to roughly 2.2 in 2014 and has remained at this level as of 2022. This pattern is
    similar to fertility trends in South Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa, and sets South Africa apart from the rest of Sub-
    Saharan Africa, where the average TFR remains higher than other regions of the world. Today, South Africa’s decreasing
    number of reproductive age women is having fewer children, as women increase their educational attainment, workforce
    participation, and use of family planning methods; delay marriage; and opt for smaller families.

    As the proportion of working-age South Africans has grown relative to children and the elderly, South Africa has been
    unable to achieve a demographic dividend because persistent high unemployment and the prevalence of HIV/AIDs have
    created a larger-than-normal dependent population. HIV/AIDS was also responsible for South Africa’s average life
    expectancy plunging to less than 43 years in 2008; it rebounded to 63 years as of 2017. HIV/AIDS continues to be a serious
    public health threat, although awareness-raising campaigns and the wider availability of anti-retroviral drugs is stabilizing
    the number of new cases, enabling infected individuals to live longer, healthier lives, and reducing mother-child
    transmissions.

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