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Languages spoken in South Africa, by province

CategoryDemographics
DescriptionThe percentage of the population that speaks each of South Africa's 12 official languages most often in the household by province from Statistics South Africa's 1996, 2001, 2011 and 2022 national censuses.
SourceCensus 2022. Cultural Dynamics in South Africa, StatsSA
Data11 columns, 14 rows
Headers
gauteng
limpopo
language
free_state
mpumalanga
north_west
eastern_cape
south_africa
western_cape
kwazulu-natal
northern_cape
Meta and variable descriptions
Data
gautenglimpopolanguagefree_statempumalanganorth_westeastern_capesouth_africawestern_capekwazulu-natalnorthern_cape
100100Total100100100100100100100100
12.755.6Sepedi0.210.22.10100.10.10.1
2.417.4Tshivenda0.10.20.402.50.100
717.2Xitsonga0.210.63.20.14.70.200.1
7.82.3Afrikaans10.33.35.19.510.641.11.154.6
3.72.1Other0.71.22.50.92.13.30.71.1
10.31.3Setswana5.31.672.808.30.1035.7
31.2IsiNdebele0.19.80.50.11.70.200
9.11English1.61.51.14.98.722.114.32.1
13.10.8Sesotho72.22.25.82.47.810.61.1