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In keeping with women's month in South Africa, which runs from 1 August 2017 to 31 August 2017, we have decided to dedicate a page worth of statistics regarding South Africa's women.
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SA's woman in numbers
The first couple of tables we will show relates to the number of woman in South Africa., broken down into broad age categories and per province. The first table below shows the number of females per age and race group.
Age Group |
Black African |
Coloured |
Indian/Asian |
White |
Total |
0-9 |
4 989 697 |
472 028 |
93 314 |
240 875 |
5 795 913 |
10-19 |
4 105 022 |
415 266 |
84 962 |
245 456 |
4 850 706 |
20-34 |
6 681 816 |
632 886 |
171 083 |
426 640 |
7 912 425 |
35-64 |
6 393 701 |
866 427 |
271 765 |
961 943 |
8 493 837 |
65-79 |
956 906 |
147 466 |
58 227 |
334 358 |
1 496 957 |
80+ |
217 812 |
25 452 |
10 427 |
97 778 |
351 469 |
Total |
23 344 954 |
2 559 524 |
689 778 |
2 307 050 |
28 901 306 |
Black African females make up 80.8% of all females in South Africa, with coloured females coming in a distant 2nd place with them making up 8.9% of all females in South Africa, whites coming in a close 3rd place with 8% of females in South Africa while Indian/Asian females making up just 2.4% of all females in South Africa.
The table below shows the number of females per age group per province.
The table below shows the number of females per age group per province.
Age Group |
EC |
FS |
GP |
KZN |
LP |
MP |
NW |
NC |
WC |
Total |
0-9 |
705 955 |
280 649 |
1 161 086 |
1 168 358 |
659 316 |
464 672 |
378 413 |
118 005 |
532 270 |
5 466 725 |
10-19 |
580 691 |
242 876 |
1 124 076 |
1 043 501 |
530 708 |
395 823 |
306 703 |
99 763 |
507 037 |
4 831 178 |
20-34 |
737 631 |
360 915 |
2 130 067 |
1 452 344 |
714 692 |
578 582 |
478 268 |
143 910 |
889 804 |
7 486 214 |
35-64 |
1 114 953 |
486 210 |
2 278 937 |
1 770 459 |
945 855 |
700 169 |
623 782 |
200 991 |
1 147 425 |
9 268 781 |
65-79 |
223 958 |
83 279 |
330 915 |
295 207 |
150 604 |
94 641 |
95 462 |
37 557 |
185 322 |
1 496 945 |
80+ |
66 851 |
20 521 |
52 297 |
59 182 |
50 875 |
28 825 |
27 838 |
10 821 |
34 252 |
351 463 |
Total |
3 430 038 |
1 474 451 |
7 077 378 |
5 787 051 |
3 052 050 |
2 262 712 |
1 910 466 |
611 048 |
3 296 111 |
28 901 306 |
Gauteng has most number of females with the province making up 24.5% of all females in South Africa, with KwaZulu-Natal coming a close 2nd with 20% of all females living in KwaZulu-Natal, while the Eastern Cape comes a distant 3rd with 11.9% of all females residing in the Eastern Cape. The Northern Cape's females only make up 2.1% of all females in South Africa. What is interesting to note for the category 0-9 and 10-19 Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal have very similar number of females, but as soon as one looks at 20-34 Gauteng has almost 700 000 more females. This is a clear indication that as soon as schooling is done, females move to Gauteng (as do their male counterparts) in order to seek employment or to continue their studies in Gauteng as there is large clustering of tertiary institutions in the province.
Western Cape has the highest percentage of females in the 35-64 grouping as percentage of its total female population, with almost 35% of Western Cape's female population being between the age of 35-64 years old.
Western Cape has the highest percentage of females in the 35-64 grouping as percentage of its total female population, with almost 35% of Western Cape's female population being between the age of 35-64 years old.
The next set of numbers we will look at is the participation of females in the work place. The pie chart below shows the number of females of working age and whether they are in the labour force, the number not economically active or unemployed.
A large portion of the females of a working age does not form part of the labour force (I.e. has either given up looking for work) or is not economically active due to studies, stay at home moms etc. Of those that are working, the question is then in which sector of the economy are they working in? Formal sector employment, informal sector (excl agriculture), agriculture sector or in private households (such as domestic workers, nannies, cooks etc).
While the majority of females are employed in the formal non agriculture sector (4.77million or 67.4%) of employed females, it is interesting to note that roughly 14.4% or 1million females are employed in private households (the majority we would assume are domestic workers. In the CPI's latest reweighting it states that SA consumers spent R2.45 out of every R100 spent on domestic workers. It is therefore a significant part of consumer spending with households spending roughly R49billion on domestic workers during the course of a year. The pie chart below groups the 7million employed females in South Africa into different occupational levels.
As the saying goes, a picture tells a story of a 1000 words. It's clear from the pie chart that the bulk of work being done by females are either domestic work (14%) or elementary work (think making tea and coffee, cleaning offices etc) with elementary work making up over a fifth of work by females (or almost 23%).
The above clearly shows that while great strides have been made in South Africa to empower woman, it has got a very very long way to go before woman are men's equals in South Africa.
The above clearly shows that while great strides have been made in South Africa to empower woman, it has got a very very long way to go before woman are men's equals in South Africa.