Population Duel deck / Africa
South Africa
Population, World Bank estimate for 2025
64.7 million people
64,747,319 people · land area 1,213,000 km² (2024) · 53.4 people per km² of land · Southern Africa
Population Duel only asks South Africa against countries with at least 10% more or fewer people, so small estimate differences never decide a duel. The silhouette is not to scale.
Source
Population and area: The World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0). Indicator SP.POP.TOTL (population, total), latest year 2025; land area AG.LND.TOTL.K2 (2024). Retrieved 2026-10-21 through the checked dataset in shared/datasets (built from the World Bank API, database updated 2026-10-08).
World Bank data for South Africa · Wikidata Q258 · silhouette: Natural Earth (public domain)
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