‘Facts and stats’ - South Africa country profile
I love facts and stats and on Friday The Guardian Newspaper (where I incidentally used to work) published a new South Africa country profile. No long prose, no fluffy narrative just a good old fashioned stat sandwich with a healthy topping of ‘wow, I didn’t know that’ facts to finish. You can read the full profile here but here’s just a few of my faves to be getting on with:
- Modern humans have lived here for more than 100,000 years
- Size: 470,693 square miles
- Population: 48,687,300 (24th largest in the world)
- Population mix: Africans (blacks) 79%; Europeans (whites) 9.6%; Other (11.5%)
- Average life expectancy: Male 50, Female 53
- Average number of children per mother: 2.7
- Foreign tourist visitors per year: 8,508,806 (yip, and they all need somewhere to stay)
- Media freedom index (ranked out of 173): 36
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Those are some interesting stats. Thanx for sharing. Will go and check out the full report shortly
Nice post. Very interesting stats. Im surprised by the children per mother, I thought it would have been more
Well they say, South Africa is the cradle to humankind, no? So I’ll bet it’s 100,000+ years.