Sub-Saharan Africa · capital Pretoria
South Africa
#24 by population · Upper middle income · ISO ZAF
Population right now
65,479,270
1,718.7 net per day · 1 birth every 26.4 s
·anchor 64,747,319 on 1 Jul 2025
·0.789% of the world
👶 Births today
2,885
0% of the way to the next birth · 0 while you've been here
⚰️ Deaths today
1,442
0% of the way to the next death · 0 while you've been here
🧳 Net migration / yr
+29,274
5-yr avg from 2025
📈 Net growth / day
+1,514
0.97% per year, from births − deaths + migration
Profile
Birth rate
18.48 /1,000
2024
Death rate
9.24 /1,000
2024
Fertility
2.21 births/woman
Life expectancy
66.3 yrs
Aged 0–14
25.7%
Aged 65+
6.9%
Urban
63.8%
Land area
1,219,090 km²
Density
53.1 /km²
GDP / capita
$6,598
2025
Trend
Population 2015–2025
Same region
Largest neighbours
How these numbers are made. Nobody counts people in real time.
Each figure is recomputed every frame from a World Bank anchor and rate:
pop(now) = 64,747,319 + 0.0199/s × elapsed since 1 Jul 2025
births/day = 3,276 (crude birth rate 18.48/1,000, 2024)
deaths/day = 1,637 (crude death rate 9.24/1,000, 2024)
Births and deaths are estimates for a hypothetical average day; they do not reflect
seasonality, and the migration figure is a 5-year average. World Bank's separately
published growth rate is 1.15%/yr; the rate shown above is derived
from the components so it always agrees with the counter. Full method →