4.3 Socio-Economic Systems
4.3 SOCIO-ECONOMIC SYSTEMS Note: (source: Census, 1996 and 2001) CNdV africa 4-120 PROVINCIAL SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK environmental planning, landscape architecture, urban design 7 NOVEMBER 2005 4.3.1 DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE OF THE PROVINCE 4.3.1.1 INTRODUCTION overwhelming majority of the people live in the City of Cape Town with significant majorities in the Winelands and Eden districts. This section describes the structure of the population in the Western Cape including the ethnic structure, dependency and age-sex ratios, levels of Figure 4.3.1.1 shows the population distribution through the Province. urbanization, the economically active and unemployment and where Population per District people live, i.e. the spatial distribution. The following section discusses population growth trends and migration patterns. 3,500,000 3,000,000 2,893,246 The 2001 Census confirmed a South African population of 44 819 778 people. Of these, 79% classified themselves as Black African; 9,6% as 2,500,000 White; 8,9% as Coloured; and 2,5% as Indian/Asian. A total of 21 685 415 63,9% people in South Africa (48%) are male, and 23 662 839 (52%) female. 2,000,000 The Western Cape Province comprises 10,09% of the total population of Population 1,500,000 South Africa, namely 4 524 335 with the largest proportion in the City of Cape Town (63,9%) and the smallest proportion in the Central Karoo (1,3%) 1,000,000 629,489 (Stats SA, 2001 Key Results) See Graph 4.3.1.1. KwaZulu-Natal has the 454,921 500,000 282,672 13,9% largest population (9,4million) and the smallest population is in the 203,521 10,1% 1,3% 6,2% 4,5% 60,484 Northern Cape (0,8million) of all the Provinces.
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