Editing Demographics of South Africa (section)

===United Nations Population Estimates===
The [[United Nations Commission on Population and Development|Population Department of the United Nations]] prepared the following estimates.<ref name="WPP 2019"/> (Natural increase or decrease over a time period is the difference between that period's live births and deaths, before accounting for inward or outward migration.)

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! style="width:12%;"|Period
! style="width:11%;"|Live births per year
! style="width:11%;"|Deaths per year
! style="width:11%;"|Natural Increase per year
! style="width:11%;"|Crude Birth Rate <br />(per 1,000 per year)
! style="width:11%;"|Crude Death Rate <br />(per 1,000 per year)
! style="width:11%;"|Natural Increase <br />(per 1,000 per year)
! style="width:11%;"|Total Fertility Rate (over av'ge woman's life)
! style="width:11%;"|Infant Mortality Rate (per 100,000 live births)
|-
| 1950–1955 ||align="right"| 606,600|| align="right" | 292,400|| align="right" |+ 314,200||42.1||20.7||+ 21.8||6.05||134
|-
| 1955–1960 ||align="right"| 669,400|| align="right" | 293,800|| align="right" |+ 375,600||41.4||18.2||+ 23.3||6.05||121
|-
| 1960–1965 ||align="right"| 740,200|| align="right" | 304,600|| align="right" |+ 435,600||40.6||16.7||+ 23.9||6.00||112
|-
| 1965–1970 ||align="right"| 810,600|| align="right" | 313,600|| align="right" |+ 497,000||39.1||15.2||+ 24.0||5.80||103
|-
| 1970–1975 ||align="right"| 896,000|| align="right" | 315,400|| align="right" |+ 580,600||37.9||13.3||+ 24.6||5.50||89
|-
| 1975–1980 ||align="right"| 967,400|| align="right" | 309,800|| align="right" |+ 657,600||36.0||11.5||+ 24.5||5.05||71
|-
| 1980–1985 ||align="right"|1,099,200|| align="right" | 311,000|| align="right" |+ 788,200||35.9||10.2||+ 25.7||4.90||56
|-
| 1985–1990 ||align="right"|1,147,400|| align="right" | 299,400|| align="right" |+ 848,000||33.0||8.6||+ 24.4||4.40||46
|-
| 1990–1995 ||align="right"|1,074,600|| align="right" | 318,000|| align="right" |+ 756,600||27.5||8.1||+ 19.3||3.51||41
|-
| 1995–2000 ||align="right"|1,026,600|| align="right" | 448,000|| align="right" |+ 578,600||23.8||10.4||+ 13.4||2.88||47
|- 
| 2000–2005 ||align="right"|1,051,600|| align="right" | 626,800|| align="right" |+ 424,800||22.7||13.5||+ &nbsp;9.2||2.61||54
|- 
| 2005–2010 ||align="right"|1,166,200|| align="right" | 671,400|| align="right" |+ 494,800||23.5||13.6||+ 10.0||2.62||48
|- 
| 2010–2015 ||align="right"|1,207,200|| align="right" | 557,200||align="right"  |+ 650,000||22.6||10.5||+ 12.2||2.55||33
|- 
| 2015–2020 ||align="right"|1,185,000|| align="right" | 546,000|| align="right" |+ 639,000||20.7||9.5||+ 11.1||2.41||27
|- 
| 2020–2025 ||align="right"|1,159,600|| align="right" | 573,200|| align="right" |+ 586,400||19.0||9.4||+ &nbsp;9.6||2.31||24
|- 
| 2025–2030 ||align="right"|1,143,400|| align="right" | 604,400|| align="right" |+ 539,000||17.8||9.4||+ &nbsp;8.4||2.22||21
|- style="background: #FEFEFE; text-align=center"
| colspan="9" | <small> '''Total Fertility Rate''' = average number of children over a woman's lifetime; '''Infant Mortality Rate''' per 100,000 live births</small>
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