The Population of South Africa including Cape Town is 47,850,700. The farther more, South Africa is a most colored dominated country with more than 88% being colored. The other ethnic groups are Caucasian with 9% and Asia with 3%.However, they are all considered South African. The population increased by 0.85% as it decreased by 0.22%in 2008. The death count in South Africa is 599,000 and more than half of them were from the HIV/AIDS virus (345,640 deaths).
Religion is a big part of South Africa culture because all but 14% of the 47,850,700 person population believes in some type of god. What surprised me is how eclectic the religions are in South Africa because the highest amount of people that believe in a certain religion, which is Zion Christian with 11%. Second, is Pentecostal/Charismatic with 8%, after them is catholic with 7%, and Dutch and Methodist with 6%. There is also Christian, Islam, Hinduism, and Judaism which rounds off the bottom with under 5% each.
Education is another shocking part of the South African culture. South Africa is a male dominated society, but only 45% of all school aged male attend which leaves the other 55% to be dominated by female. More importantly more than 1.5 million school aged students of both sexes do not attend because of all different reason, but the most common is they cannot because they have to take care of younger sibling.
The housing in South Africa is a serious problem facing them as well because there is not enough people living in homes and the homes are not all formal dwelling. Most are formal, but not all because 5% are tradition dwelling, 17% are informal, and the other 3% are other types of houses such as huts. That is not the only bad part about the housing. In South Africa more than half the houses have 7 or more residents. This is bad because the average square footage of a house is 1,500 feet.
