South Africa - Population ages 80 and above, female (% of female population)

The value for Population ages 80 and above, female (% of female population) in South Africa was 0.975 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.979 in 2019 and a minimum value of 0.422 in 1960.

Definition: Female population between the ages 80 and above as a percentage of the total female population.

Source: World Bank staff estimates based on age/sex distributions of United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision.

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Year Value
1960 0.422
1961 0.446
1962 0.458
1963 0.459
1964 0.451
1965 0.435
1966 0.465
1967 0.485
1968 0.492
1969 0.483
1970 0.458
1971 0.475
1972 0.479
1973 0.471
1974 0.456
1975 0.433
1976 0.458
1977 0.475
1978 0.480
1979 0.470
1980 0.445
1981 0.462
1982 0.467
1983 0.461
1984 0.450
1985 0.433
1986 0.462
1987 0.485
1988 0.498
1989 0.500
1990 0.490
1991 0.518
1992 0.537
1993 0.548
1994 0.555
1995 0.558
1996 0.593
1997 0.620
1998 0.635
1999 0.638
2000 0.629
2001 0.665
2002 0.688
2003 0.698
2004 0.696
2005 0.683
2006 0.725
2007 0.755
2008 0.774
2009 0.781
2010 0.778
2011 0.820
2012 0.851
2013 0.872
2014 0.882
2015 0.883
2016 0.926
2017 0.956
2018 0.973
2019 0.979
2020 0.975

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population