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Fewer
young, more elderly in SA iafrica.com,
July 9, 2003 Over
14.3 million, or 32.1 percent, of South Africa's population were younger
than 15 in 2001, Statistics SA said on Tuesday. This
proportion, calculated as part of the results of Census 2001, was lower
than the 34.3 percent recorded in the 1996 census. In
2001, there were 2.2 million people in South Africa aged 65 and more,
which represented a 4.9 percent share of the population, compared to
1996's 4.8 percent. There
was a substantially higher proportion (11.1 percent) of 65-plus people
among whites than among the other population groups — four percent of
coloureds, 4.2 percent of blacks and 4.6 percent of Indians. Ten
percent of South Africans were younger than five in 2001 and 10.8 percent
were between five and nine years old. The
group aged 10 to 14 had the highest share, at 11.3 percent, of the overall
population. From
there the percentages dwindled gradually with each five-year age group. A
similar pattern was visible among blacks and coloureds. Among
whites and Indians the largest age cohort were the 15- to 19-year-olds,
who respectively accounted for 8.3 and 9.9 percent of their population
groups. Among
Indians, the proportions decreased gradually with each subsequent
five-year age group. With whites, however, the groups aged 20 to 24 (6.9 percent) and 25 to 29 (7.3 percent) had smaller shares of the population than those aged 30 to 34 (eight percent), 35 to 39 (7.8 percent) and 40 to 44 (7.9 percent). Copyright
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