- Population: 48.7 mil [24]* (5)**
- GDP: $467.8 billion [25] (1)
- GDP ā Real Growth Rate: 5.1%
- Inflation: 7.1%
- Internet Users: 5.1million [41] (4)
- Telephones / Mobile-Cellular: 42.3 million [20] (1)
- Illiteracy: 12.2%
- Education Expenditure: 5.4% of GDP [53] (11)
- Unemployment Rate: 24.3% [169] (15)
- Languages: IsiZulu 23.8%, IsiXhosa 17.6%, Afrikaans 13.3%, Sepedi 9.4%, English 8.2%, Setswana 8.2%, Sesotho 7.9%, Xitsonga 4.4%, other 7.2%
- Religion: Christianity & Islam