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For 2022, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) estimates the mid-year population at 60,60 million people. Approximately 51,1% (approximately 30,98 million) of the population is female. ...

In the five-year period from 2015 to 2020, a total of 13,815 women over the age of 18 were murdered, according to the South African Police Service. That’s an average of 2,763 murders a year, or about seven women a day. ​​Compared with other countries where stats are available, South A...

Data from the Zimbabwe National Cancer Registry (ZNCR), which collates cancer data in the country, shows cases have increased over the past decade. In 2009, a total of 3,519 new cancer cases were recorded in Zimbabwe. Cases rose to 6,548 in 2013 and 7,265 in 2016. In 2018, according to a re...

A standard housing affordability measure is that the price of an "affordable" house is in a range of three to five times the average annual household income. The costs of most houses are far outside this range, according to 2013 data by the Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa (CAHF). Cou...

Niger has the world’s youngest population. Half of Niger’s population is 14 or younger, and the median age is 15. ...

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 ...

In 2019, Nigeria (27%), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (12%), Uganda (5%), Mozambique (4%) and Niger (3%) accounted for about 51% of all malaria cases globally. Nigeria (23%), the Democratic Republic of the Congo(11%), the United Republic of Tanzania (5%), Burkina Faso (4%), Mozambiqu...

19.4% (10.4 million) of children under five years old were stunted in Kenya in 2020. ...

As of February 2020, there were only 67 ICU ventilators and no non-invasive ventilation machines for a population of 30 million people in Ghana. This is equivalent to an estimated ventilator capacity of 0.22 ventilators per 100,000 people in Ghana. Even if operating room ventilators are used as a ba...