{"id":128684,"date":"2016-07-01T08:41:01","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T06:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=128684"},"modified":"2016-07-01T08:47:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T06:47:26","slug":"south-africa-has-800000-more-people-than-a-year-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/128684\/south-africa-has-800000-more-people-than-a-year-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa has 800,000 more people than a year ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa added 800,000 people to its population over the past year, and has grown by more than 15 million people since 1996, according to new data by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA).<\/p>\n<p>The stats body unveiled its community survey for 2016 showing that the country&#8217;s population has reached 55.7 million in 2016 &#8211; up from 40.6 million in 1996.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2001 &#8211; 44.8 million<\/li>\n<li>2011 &#8211; 51.8 million<\/li>\n<li>2015 &#8211; 54.9 million<\/li>\n<li>2016 &#8211; 55.7 million<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Age\u2010sex distribution indicates a youthful population, with the highest proportion of<br \/>\nboth the male and female population in the 0\u20104 and 5\u20109 year age groups.<\/p>\n<p>Analysis by age groups show the largest increase in population amongst those aged 5\u20109<br \/>\nyears (from 4.8 million in 2011 to 5.6 million in 2016).<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/population-e1467353424113.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-128692\" src=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/population-e1467353424113.jpg\" alt=\"population\" width=\"600\" height=\"815\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gauteng remains the most populous province in the country with 13.4 million people, up from 13.2 million in 2015, and from 12.3 million in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>KwaZulu-Natal is the second most populous province, with 11.1 million people, followed by the Eastern Cape, with 7 million people, and the Western Cape, with 6.3 million people.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/households-e1467354935629.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-128704\" src=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/households-e1467354935629.jpg\" alt=\"households\" width=\"600\" height=\"815\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on South Africa<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/120767\/south-africas-young-white-population-is-shrinking\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>South Africa\u2019s young white population is shrinking<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/93961\/gauteng-population-breaches-13-million\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gauteng population breaches 13 million<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/64546\/sas-population-breaks-54-million\/\"><strong>SA\u2019s population breaks 54 million<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/international\/62749\/sa-population-flocking-to-cities\/\">SA population flocking to cities<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s population added 800,000 people over the past year, and has grown by more than 15 million people since 1996, according to new data by StatsSA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":106791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9876],"tags":[26,5769],"class_list":["post-128684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-headline","tag-statssa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128684"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128722,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128684\/revisions\/128722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}