Facts in Q&A format

As of 17 November 2021, the total number of individuals vaccinated in Mpumalanga stood at just over 1 million (1,420,542). ...

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

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 ...

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. ...

No. Legally, no one can be forced or coerced into taking the vaccine. This was affirmed by President Cyril Ramaphosa when he addressed parliament on 3 September 2021: “No one should be forced to be vaccinated. Instead, we need to use the available scientific evidence to encourage — repeat encour...

According to UCT’s Faculty of Health Science, there were 254 patients hospitalised with Covid-19 on 6 September 2021. ...

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...