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Population: 43,997,828
Location: Southern Africa
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Languages: IsiZulu, IsiXhosa, Afrikaans, Sepedi, English, Setswana, Sesotho, Xitsonga
Religion: Christian 79.7 Muslim 1.5% other 2.3% unspecified 1.4%, none 15.1%
About South Africa: South Africa is a middle-income, emerging market with an abundant
supply of natural resources; well-developed financial, legal,
communications, energy, and transport sectors; a stock exchange that
ranks among the 10 largest in the world; and a modern infrastructure
supporting an efficient distribution of goods to major urban centers
throughout the region. However, growth has not been strong enough to
lower South Africa's high unemployment rate, and daunting economic
problems remain from the apartheid era - especially poverty and lack of
economic empowerment among the disadvantaged groups.
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Quick Facts
1 in 5 South African adults has HIV or AIDS. (2003 est.)
1 in 5 South African children, 3.1 million, will be an orphans by 2010. |
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The Orphan Crisis
There are 2.2 million orphans in South Africa. Half of them have lost at least one parent to AIDS. (2003 est.)
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HIV/AIDS Epidemic
5.3 million South African are infected. 370,000 individual have died from AIDS.
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