{"id":3892,"date":"2015-01-29T13:55:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T11:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta2.statssa.gov.za\/?page_id=3892"},"modified":"2015-04-30T09:58:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T07:58:39","slug":"2001-census","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?page_id=3892","title":{"rendered":"2001 Census"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In October 2001, South Africans were counted for the second time as citizens of a democracy. Over 83 000 enumerators and over 17 000 supervisors and fieldwork co-ordinators were employed to collect information on persons and households throughout the country, using a uniform methodology. Census night, or the night of the count, was 9-10 October 2001.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Population by province for the census years 1996 and 2001:<\/em><\/p>\n<table class=\"table\" style=\"width:100%\"  cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Province<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>1996<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>2001<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Eastern Cape<\/td>\n<td>6 302 525<\/td>\n<td>6 436 763<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Free State<\/td>\n<td>2 633 504<\/td>\n<td>2 706 775<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Gauteng<\/td>\n<td>7 348 423<\/td>\n<td>8 837 178<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>KwaZulu-Natal<\/td>\n<td>8 417 021<\/td>\n<td>9 426 017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Limpopo<\/td>\n<td>4 929 368<\/td>\n<td>5 273 642<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Mpumalanga<\/td>\n<td>2 800 711<\/td>\n<td>3 122 990<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Northern Cape<\/td>\n<td>840 321<\/td>\n<td>822 727<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Nort West<\/td>\n<td>3 354 825<\/td>\n<td>3 669 349<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Western Cape<\/td>\n<td>3 956 875<\/td>\n<td>4 524 335<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>South Africa<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>40 583 573<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>44 819 778<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/Minister.gif\" width=\"103\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Publications: Key findings and analysis\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?page_id=3902\">Interactive &amp; electronic products<\/a>\u00a0sections from the main menu.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October 2001, South Africans were counted for the second time as citizens of a democracy. Over 83 000 enumerators and over 17 000 supervisors and fieldwork co-ordinators were employed to collect information on persons and households throughout the country, using a uniform methodology. Census night, or the night of the count, was 9-10 October&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?page_id=3892\" class=\"btn btn-mini btn-info pull-right\" style=\"margin:10px 30px;\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3836,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"census_2001.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3892","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3892"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3894,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3892\/revisions\/3894"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}