Southern Africa Population Pyramid 2019

Southern Africa
2019
Population: 67,959,742

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-5 -1   2019  +1 +5

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Southern Africa in 2019

As of 2019, Southern Africa counted 67,959,743 inhabitants. A decade earlier, in 2009, the population was 58,882,619; it has grown by 15.4% since. With a median age of 27.2 years, Southern Africa had a youth dependency ratio of 43.1 and an old-age dependency ratio of 8.6 per 100 people of working age. The pyramid is stationary: cohort sizes are roughly even through the younger ages, reflecting fertility close to replacement level and slow population change.

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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