South African population

Martin Olsen martin_olsen at post.tele.dk
Fri Feb 22 18:26:40 CET 2002


> Message: 1
> From: "Fluks, H.W." <H.W.Fluks at kpn.com>
> To: "'Rodney w bowcock jr.'" <rodney-selfhelpbikeco at juno.com>,
>    dcml at stp.ling.uu.se
> Subject: RE: African Americans in Disney comics
> Date:   Fri, 22 Feb 2002 10:09:16 +0100
> 
> Rodney:
> 
> > I was always
> > led to believe that there was a large amount of Caucasian (ie White)
> > people in South Africa.
> 
> Maybe, but there is a HUGE amount of NON-white people in South Africa. I
> think less than 10% of the people in SA can be regarded caucasian.
> 
> --Harry.
> 

CIA's The World Factbook 2001 http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ says this (among many other things) about South Africa's population:

Population: 43,586,097 
... 
Ethnic groups: black 75.2%, white 13.6%, Colored 8.6%, Indian 2.6%  

Martin.




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