South Africa

  • President:Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Deputy President:David Mabuza
  • Capital city:Pretoria (administrative capital), Cape Town (legislative capital), Bloemfontein, (judicial capital)
  • Languages:IsiZulu (official) 22.7%, IsiXhosa (official) 16%, Afrikaans (official) 13.5%, English (official) 9.6%, Sepedi (official) 9.1%, Setswana (official) 8%, Sesotho (official) 7.6%, Xitsonga (official) 4.5%, siSwati (official) 2.5%, Tshivenda (official) 2.4%, isiNdebele (official) 2.1%, sign language 0.5%, other 1.6% (2011 est.)
  • Government
  • National statistics office
  • Population, persons:6,43,86,489 (2025)
  • Area, sq km:12,13,090
  • GDP per capita, US$:6,023 (2023)
  • GDP, billion current US$:380.7 (2023)
  • GINI index:63.0 (2014)
  • Ease of Doing Business rank:84
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  • A
    • फरवरी 2024
      Source: African Development Bank Group
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      Accessed On: 19 फरवरी, 2024
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      This dataset contains data for the African countries and aggregate countries such as crude oil producers ; Sub-Saharan Africa. Data is organized under sixteen socio-economic chapters such as prices, energy, agriculture, social and AFDB aggregates which covers country scores in regional integration, social protection among others.
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    • मार्च 2022
      Source: The Africa Information Highway
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      Accessed On: 11 जुलाई, 2022
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      Data cited at: https://dataportal.opendataforafrica.org/rtufdnc/social This Dataset describes the list of common indicators from census datasets of African countries.
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    • फरवरी 2021
      Source: National Institute of Statistics, Cameroon
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      Accessed On: 02 मार्च, 2021
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      Data cited at: https://cameroon.opendataforafrica.org/vszafdc Demographic Statistics of African countries  
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    • मार्च 2024
      Source: United Nations Development Programme
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      Accessed On: 10 अप्रैल, 2024
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      Data Cited at: UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME, Human Development Data Center The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary measure of achievements in three key dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, access to knowledge and a decent standard of living. The HDI is the geometric mean of normalized indices for each of the the three dimensions.
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    • जून 2025
      Source: World Bank
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      Accessed On: 01 जुलाई, 2025
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      The primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates