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Statistics

Republic of South Africa
Population 44,344,136 (July 2005 est.)
Official Languages Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu, Afrikaans, English
Distribution according to Apartheid based racial categories Black: 75.2%
White: 13.6%
Coloured: 8.6%
Indian: 2.6%
GDP Real Growth Rate 3.5% (2004 est.)
GINI Coefficient measuring income inequality 0.58 (Only that of Brazil is higher)
HIV-infected statistic according to the South African government over 2.4 million people are infected with HIV

The information above was gathered from the CIA World Fact Book and the South African government websites.


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