South Africa - Population ages 65 and above, female

The value for Population ages 65 and above, female in South Africa was 1,981,762 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1,981,762 in 2020 and a minimum value of 366,906 in 1960.

Definition: Female population 65 years of age or older. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship.

Source: World Bank staff estimates using the World Bank's total population and age/sex distributions of the United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision.

See also:

Year Value
1960 366,906
1961 376,947
1962 387,080
1963 396,928
1964 405,972
1965 413,972
1966 422,570
1967 430,032
1968 437,271
1969 445,398
1970 455,048
1971 468,620
1972 483,150
1973 498,048
1974 512,525
1975 526,213
1976 541,669
1977 556,206
1978 570,505
1979 585,367
1980 601,258
1981 621,433
1982 641,713
1983 661,776
1984 681,138
1985 699,592
1986 720,505
1987 740,780
1988 761,247
1989 782,970
1990 806,829
1991 837,745
1992 872,102
1993 909,406
1994 948,689
1995 989,369
1996 1,023,314
1997 1,055,123
1998 1,085,715
1999 1,116,285
2000 1,147,604
2001 1,178,133
2002 1,207,248
2003 1,235,260
2004 1,262,261
2005 1,288,437
2006 1,323,806
2007 1,357,951
2008 1,390,792
2009 1,422,221
2010 1,452,459
2011 1,490,980
2012 1,531,069
2013 1,574,274
2014 1,622,565
2015 1,677,160
2016 1,733,123
2017 1,792,414
2018 1,854,322
2019 1,917,657
2020 1,981,762

Aggregation method: Sum

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: Relevance to gender indicator: Knowing how many girls, adolescents and women there are in a population helps a country in determining its provision of services.

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population