% der Weißen in Südafrika

Statistics South Africa asks people to describe themselves in the census in terms of five racial population groups. South Africa has 62,027,503 people from its last census in 2022.

in 2022 these were the groups:

Black: 81.46% = 50,486,856 people

Coloured: 8.15% = 5,052,349 people

White: 7.30% = 4,504,252 people

Indian: 2.74% = 1,697,506 people

Other: 0.40%

White people reached a peak percentage in South Africa in 1911 at 22.7%. These are the % of white people in South Africa in different years:

1904: 21.58% = 1,116,805

1921: 21.93% = 1,519,488 

1936: 20.90% = 2,003,857

1960: 19.30% = 3,088,492

1970: 17.1% = 3,792,848 

1980: 18.1% = 4,522,000

1986: 17.3% = 4,900,000 

1991: 13.4% = 5,068,300

1995: 12.7% = 5,224,000 (peak population of whites in numbers)

2000: 10.4% = 4,521,664 

2010: 9.2% = 4,584,700

2020: 7.8% = 4,679,770

2024: 7.2% = 4,539,212 

The GDP map follows a similar trend actually