How many white people live in south africa

The decline in the percentage of AIDS-related deaths since can be attributed to the increase in the roll-out of antiretroviral therapy ART over time. The national roll-out of ART began in with a target of one service point in each of the 53 districts of South Africa at the time later reduced to 52 districts. Access to ART has changed significantly over time, altering the pattern of mortality over time.

It has extended the lifespan of many in South Africa, who would have otherwise died at an earlier age, as evidenced in the decline of AIDS deaths post Migration is an important demographic process, as it shapes the age structure and distribution of the provincial population.

Gauteng and Western Cape received the highest number of in-migrants for all periods. The Eastern Cape and Gauteng experienced the largest number of outflow of migrants. Owing to its relatively larger population size, Gauteng achieved the highest number of in- and out-flows of migration.

For all periods, the number of international migrants entering the provinces was highest in Gauteng, with Western Cape ranking second.

The provinces with the highest proportion of children are Limpopo, where Around A further South Africans aged 60 years or older number 4. The provinces with the highest proportion of people aged 60 or older are the Eastern Cape 9. This leaves it with the highest proportion of both children and the elderly, as working-age people leave for elsewhere to find jobs. While black South Africans are in the majority in every age group, this majority decreases as the age of the population rises.

Coloured, Indian and especially white South Africans tend to live longer. The benefits of increasing economic opportunity, extensive social welfare and access to healthcare since democracy in are shown by the fact that the population structure remains pretty much unchanged from age zero to about 39 — people born from onwards. South Africans migrate away from poverty to where the jobs are.

They move from poorer provinces to the richer ones, and from rural areas to the cities. It has the largest population, constantly swelled by migration — its net migration rate number of people moving in minus people moving out was nearly a million between and The Eastern Cape is the poorest province.

Between and nearly half a million of its people migrated to other provinces, while only or so moved into the province. Between and net migration of black Africans to South Africa was people, and a further 1.

The exception is in the white population. A total of more white people emigrated out of South Africa than immigrated here in the five years from to Statistics South Africa estimates that between and a further people will be added to the outflow of white people from South Africa. Click animation to view from the start. South Africa has held three official censuses in its modern democratic history: in , and In the 15 years between the and censuses, the total population has increased by In those 15 years, the black population has increased by 9.

The ratio by population group has gone from The end of apartheid, better healthcare, widespread social welfare and greater economic opportunities all mean South Africans are now able to live longer lives — reducing the proportion of children and youth in our total population. See the actual figures for selected years. Indians were among the exploited and among the exploiters. Most were poor, having come as indentured labourers under a brutal system that was very close to slavery.

When their terms of indenture expired, many stayed on as labourers or small farmers. A smaller, but more prominent group of Indians, came voluntarily to engage in trade. They opened up shops and warehouses and some of them were quite rich. Generally thought of as a mixed-race group, it loosely included some Indians, Malays and native Africans. Like the Indians, the Coloured are neither Black nor White, and their intermediate position generated fears of being reduced to the status of the Blacks.

So-called coloureds, people of mixed race are mainly still living in the Cape region. They originate from Dutch sailors inter-marrying with the Khoi-San in the 17th century.

They are also descendants of the first Dutch settlers and the native population of the Cape Khoikhoi or the Malays, who were taken to South Africa as slaves from East India in the 18th century. Despite the many ethnic groups, South Africa is still far from the ideal of a multi-cultural society. There is still a deep trench going through the population.