ACOG - South Africa  - IBM

Geography

Location: Southern Africa, at the southern tip of the continent of Africa

Area:
total area: 1,219,912 sq km
land area: 1,219,912 sq km
comparative area: slightly less than twice the size of Texas

Land boundaries: total 4,750 km, Botswana 1,840 km, Lesotho 909 km, Mozambique 491 km, Namibia 855 km, Swaziland 430 km, Zimbabwe 225 km

Coastline: 2,798 km


People

Population:

Age structure:
0-14 years: 40% (female 8,842,764; male 9,091,722)
15-64 years: 56% (female 12,825,617; male 12,508,039)
65 years and over: 4% (female 1,047,285; male 780,032)

Population growth rate:

Birth rate: 33.39 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 7.42 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 0.17 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 45.8 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 65.42 years
male: 62.68 years
female: 68.25 years

Total fertility rate: 4.35 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: black 75.2%, white 13.6%, Colored 8.6%, Indian 2.6%

Religions: Christian (most whites and Coloreds and about 60% of blacks), Hindu(60% of Indians), Muslim 2%

Languages: eleven official languages, including Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1980)
total population: 76%
male: 78%
female: 75%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Republic of South Africa
conventional short form: South Africa

Type: republic

Capital: Pretoria (administrative); Cape Town (legislative); Bloemfontein (judicial)

Independence: 31 May 1910 (from UK)

Constitution: 27 April 1994 (interim constitution, replacing the constitution of3 September 1984)


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $194.3 billion

National product real growth rate: 2%

National product per capita: $4,420

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 9%

Unemployment rate: 32.6%

Electricity:
capacity: 39,750,000 kW
production: 163 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 3,482 kWh



Olympic Factoid
An estimated 5.3 million visted Centennial Olympic Park between opening day - 13 July - and closing day - 4 August, making the park the most single most visited Olympic site during the Games.