Statistics South Africa

How Population Data Can Help Countries Plan and Tweak Policy

Statistics South Africa, the country’s statistical service which gathers and analyses a range of data, recently released its mid-year population estimates for 2019. The data places the country’s estimated population at 58,78 million peop...

Nicole De Wet- Billings·over 4 years ago

Record unemployment will worsen if we can’t unlock infrastructure promise

If we thought we had a jobs crisis on our hands before this pandemic, we now we have something much, much larger than we had ever imagined. The first thing that came to mind as I went through the second-quarter unemployment statistics re...

Busi Mavuso·over 2 years ago