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The crime detection rate indicates “the successful investigation, positive identification, arrest and charging of the perpetrator”.

The detection process covers the period from when a police docket is opened until a suspect has been arrested and charged, or until the docket is closed as…

In 2018, the World Bank estimated that South Africa’s Gini coefficient was 0.63 in 2015. This was based on individual consumption – one of the ways to measure income inequality. 

It put South Africa at the top of a list of 164 countries.

However, some countries do not have the data…

Ebola virus disease is a deadly disease that affects mostly people and non-human primates such as monkeys and chimpanzees, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains. Symptoms include fever, diarrhoea, body aches and “unexplained bleeding”.

According to the World Health…

An estimated 2.5 out of every 100,000 women and girls were killed in Kenya in 2016. This internationally comparable rate for deaths from interpersonal violence was similar to the global average of 2.6.

 

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No, they are considered employed, as long as they did that activity (e.g. trade) for at least one hour in the week before the Quarterly Labour Force Survey interview.

South Africa’s official unemployment rate was 29% in the second quarter (April to June) of 2019.

It means that 29% of the labour force, aged 15 to 64, was without work, available for work and looking for work or trying to start a business. This is also known as the narrow definition of…

Fifteen-year-olds are included in the working-age population because you can leave school at the end of the year in which you turn 15.

If a 15-year-old is without work in the week before the Quarterly Labour Force Survey interview, looked for work in the four weeks before the interview and was…

In 2019/20, a total of 2,695 women were murdered in South Africa. This is a 2.7% decrease from the previous year. A total of 943 children were murdered in 2019/20 – a 7% decline from the previous year.

 

More: FACTSHEET: South Africa’s crime statistics for 2019/20

The South African Police Service's Annual Report recorded 21,341 murders in 2019/20. Of those victims, 2,695 were women and 17,703 were men. This works out to an average of 7 women and 48 men murdered per day in South Africa.