Name | South Africa |
Long name | Republic of South Africa |
Population (source) | census |
Population (people) | 51,770,560 (2011) |
Constitutional form | Republic |
Drives on | |
Head of state authority | Executive |
Main continent | Africa |
Number of airports | 567 |
Airports - with paved runways | 145 |
Airports - with unpaved runways | 422 |
Area (m²) | 1,219,912 |
Birth rate (births/1,000 population) | 19 |
Calling code | |
Children under the age of 5 years underweight (%) | |
Current Account Balance (US$) | -13,340,000,256 |
Death rate (deaths/1,000 population) | 17 |
Debt - external (Billion US$) | 46 |
Economic aid donor (Billion $) | |
Electricity consumption (billion kWh) | 212 |
Electricity consumption per capita (kWh per person) | 4,347 |
Electricity exports (million kWh) | 14,050 |
Electricity imports (million kWh) | 1,757 |
Electricity production (billion kWh) | 238 |
Exports (Billion $) | 105 |
GDP - per capita (PPP) (US$) | 11,100 |
GDP (purchasing power parity) (Billion $) | 562 |
GDP real growth rate (%) | 3 |
Gross national income (US$) | 63 |
Human Development Index | 1 |
Health expenditures (% of GDP) | 9 |
Heliports | 1 |
HIV AIDS adult prevalence rate (%) | 18 |
HIV AIDS deaths | 310,000 |
HIV AIDS people living with HIV AIDS | 5,600,000 |
Hospital bed density (beds/1,000 population) | 3 |
Capital city | Bloemfontein |
Currency | South African rand |
Imports (Billion $) | 103 |
Industrial production growth rate (%) | 3 |
Infant mortality rate (deaths/1,000 live births) | 43 |
Inflation rate consumer prices (%) | 5 |
Internet hosts | 4,835,000 |
Internet tld | .za |
Internet users | 4,420,000 |
Investment (gross fixed) (%) | 18 |
Iso 3166 code | ZA |
ISO CODE | ZAF |
Labor force | 17,660,000 |
Life expectancy at birth (years) | 49 |
Literacy (%) | 86 |
Manpower available for military service | 13,439,781 |
Manpower fit for military service | 7,617,063 |
Manpower reaching militarily age annually | 482,122 |
Is democracy | Yes |
Market value of publicly traded shares (US$) | 855,700,013,056 |
Maternal mortality rate (deaths/100,000 live births) | 300 |
Merchant marine | 2 |
Military expenditures percent of GDP | 2 |
Natural gas consumption (cubic meters) | 5,400,000,000 |
Natural gas consumption per capita (cubic meters per person) | 111 |
Natural gas exports (cubic meters) | 0 |
Natural gas imports (cubic meters) | 3,500,000,000 |
Natural gas production (cubic meters) | 1,900,000,000 |
Natural gas proved reserves (cubic meters) | 27,160,000 |
Net migration rate (migrant/1,000 population) | -6 |
Obesity adult prevalence rate (%) | |
Oil consumption (bbl/day) | 553,000 |
Oil consumption per capita (bbl/day per 1000 people) | 11 |
Oil exports (bbl/day) | 54,930 |
Oil imports (bbl/day) | 521,400 |
Oil production (bbl/day) | 192,100 |
Oil proved reserves (bbl) | 15,000,000 |
Physicians density (physicians/1,000 population) | 1 |
Population below poverty line (%) | 50 |
Population census (people) | 51,770,560 (2011) |
Population density (Number of people per square kilometer) | 40 |
Population estimate (people) | 54,002,000 (2014) |
Population growth rate (%) | 0 |
Public debt (% of GDP) | 34 |
Railways (km) | 20,192 |
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold (US$) | 48,869,998,592 |
Roadways (km) | 362,099 |
Stock of direct foreign investment abroad (US$) | 89,959,997,440 |
Stock of direct foreign investment at home (US$) | 159,000,002,560 |
Telephones main lines in use | 4,225,000 |
Telephones main lines in use per capita | 9 |
Telephones mobile cellular | 50,372,000 |
Telephones mobile cellular per capita | 103 |
Total fertility rate (children born/woman) | 2 |
Unemployment rate (%) | 25 |
Unemployment, youth ages 15-24 (%) | 48 |
Waterways (km) | |
Valley | Gamkaskloof, Namib |
Helicopter | |
Canyon | |
Artillery | G5 howitzer |
Crater | Vredefort crater |
Religion | |
Continent | |
Border | Namibia–South Africa border, South Africa–Zimbabwe border |
Plateau | |
Marsh | |
Demonym | south african |