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South Africa experienced both peaks of deaths in the first and second waves of the Covid-19 pandemic within the 2021 Mid-year Population Estimates (MYPE) period between July 2020 and June 2021. This resulted in a significant increase in the crude death rate (CDR) from 8.7 deaths per 1,000 people in ...

According to the World Health Organization’s data, South Africa’s drinking population consumed 28.9 litres of pure alcohol per capita a year, the fifth-highest consumption rate in the world.This was below Namibia (31.3 litres), Eswatini (32.7 litres), Cook Islands (32.9 litres) and Tunisia...

Tuberculosis was the leading underlying natural cause of death from 2015 to 2017....

Assault (15%) and transport accidents (11.5%) were among the leading unnatural causes of death in 2017.Note that insufficient detail on death notification forms affects this data.Related: Africa’s leading causes of death in 2016...

First launched in 2018, the HCI measures the amount of human capital that a child born today can expect to attain by age 18. It conveys the productivity of the next generation of workers compared to a benchmark of complete education and full health. A child born in South Africa today will b...

The infant mortality rate for 2021 is estimated at 24.1 per 1,000 live births. ...

The estimated overall HIV prevalence rate is approximately 13.7% among the South African population. The total number of people living with HIV (PLWHIV) is estimated at approximately 8.2 million in 2021. For adults aged 15–49 years, an estimated 19.5% of the population is HIV positive. ...

The Burden of Disease Research Unit of the South African Medical Research Council has been using information from the National Population Register and historical data from 2018 and 2019 to estimate the number of deaths that could be expected during 2020. They compare it with deaths registered during...

According to Diabetes South Africa, up to 70% of women and one-third of all men in the country are overweight or obese. In addition, 20% of girls younger than 9 years are overweight. ...