South Africa Population Pyramid 2025

South Africa
2025
Population: 64,747,319

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-5 -1   2025  +1 +5

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South Africa in 2025

As of 2025, South Africa counted 64,747,320 inhabitants. That is 14.1% more than in 2015, when the population stood at 56,723,536. With a median age of 29.7 years, South Africa had a youth dependency ratio of 38.2 and an old-age dependency ratio of 10.2 per 100 people of working age. The near-vertical sides of the pyramid indicate a stationary age structure, with births roughly balancing the passage of cohorts into older age.

Share of the population by age group, 1950–2100

Data source: United Nations World Population Prospects, 2024 revision (medium variant) — last updated July 2024.


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