South Africa

Summary Location: Southern Africa, at the southern tip of the continent of Africa Population: 42,768,678 note: South Africa took a census October 1996 that showed a population of 40,583,611 (after an official adjustment for a 6.8% underenumeration based on a postenumeration survey); estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2003 est.) Capital: Pretoria; note - Cape Town is the legislative center and Bloemfontein the judicial center GDP per capita: purchasing power parity - $10,000 (2002 est.) Detailed Facts            Map Compare South Africa to other countries: Comparisons South Africa appears in the following rankings  • HIV infection rate  • Nobel Prize Winners  • Unemployment Rate More about South Africa  •South_African recipes  • Famous South_Africans  • South Africa travel  •  South_African airlines  •  South_African airports •  South_African books •  South_African music •  South_African DVDs

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