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South Africa now counts 63 522 380 people. The number that matters more is our fertility rate of 2,12. Demographers treat 2,1 as the replacement level, the point at which one generation exactly replaces the last. South Africa’s child mortality is still higher than in a rich country, so our true replacement threshold sits a little above 2,1. We may already be under it.
The population is still growing. But the reason has changed. South Africans are living longer, not having more children. Infant mortality has fallen from 59,9 per thousand to 23,7. Life expectancy has reached 68,3 years, the highest Stats SA has recorded. But births peaked in 2008 and have been falling since.