1996 South African census

The National Census of 1996 was the 1st comprehensive national census of the Republic of South Africa, after the end of Apartheid. It undertook to enumerate every person present in South Africa on the census night at a cost of.

Results

Demographics

First language	Eastern Cape	Free State	Gauteng	KwaZulu-Natal	Mpumalanga	Northern Cape	Northern Province	North West	Western Cape	South Africa
Black African	86.4	84.4	70	81.7	89.2	33.2	96.7	91.2	20.9	76.7
Coloured	7.4	3	3.8	1.4	0.7	51.8	0.2	1.4	54.2	8.9
Asian or Indian	0.3	0.1	2.2	9.4	0.5	0.3	0.1	0.3	1	2.6
White	5.2	12	23.2	6.6	9	13.3	2.4	6.6	20.8	10.9
Unspecified/Other	0.6	0.4	0.8	0.8	0.6	1.5	0.7	0.5	3.1	0.9
Total	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100

Rank	First language	1991 Census	1996 Census	Difference	Percent Difference
1	IsiZulu				%
2	IsiXhosa				%
3	Afrikaans				%
4	Sepedi				%
5	Setswana				%
6	English				%
7	Sesotho				%
8	Xitsonga				%
9	SiSwati				%
10	Tshivenda				%
11	IsiNdebele				%
12	Other				%

Rank	Gender	1991 Census	1996 Census	Difference	Percent difference
1	Female	15,507,000		5,755,685	37.1%
2	Male	15,480,000		4,040,887	26.1%

First language	Eastern Cape	Free State	Gauteng	KwaZulu-Natal	Mpumalanga	Northern Cape	Northern Province	North West	Western Cape	South Africa
Afrikaans	9.6	14.5	16.7	1.6	8.3	69.3	2.2	7.5	59.2	14.4
English	3.7	1.3	13.0	15.8	2.0	2.4	0.4	1.0	20.3	8.6
IsiNdebele	0	0.2	1.6	0	12.5	0	1.5	1.3	0.1	1.5
IsiXhosa	83.8	9.4	7.5	1.6	1.3	6.3	0.2	54.4	19.1	17.9
IsiZulu	0.4	4.8	21.5	79.8	25.4	0.3	0.7	2.5	0.1	22.9
Sepedi	0	0.2	9.5	0	10.5	0	52.7	4.0	0	9.2
Sesotho	2.2	62.1	13.1	0.5	3.2	0.9	1.1	5.1	0.4	7.7
SiSwati	0	0.1	1.3	0.1	30.0	0	1.2	0.5	0	2.5
Setswana	0	6.5	7.9	0	2.7	19.9	1.4	67.2	0.1	8.2
Tshivenda	0	0.1	1.4	0	0.1	0	15.5	0.4	0	2.2
Xitsonga	0	0.5	5.3	0	3.5	0	22.6	4.7	0	4.4
Other	0.2	0.3	1.3	0.5	0.4	0.8	0.3	0.5	0.6	0.6
Total	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100