Census In Brief

2.1 Population of South Africa by province

	Eastern Cape	Free State	Gauteng	Kwazulu Natal	Mpuma- langa	Northern Cape	Northern Province	North West	Western Cape	South Africa
Total	6,302,525	2,633,504	7,348,423	8,417,021	2,800,711	840,321	4,929,368	3,354,825	3,956,875	40,583,573

Percentage of the population in each province – October 1996

• The province with the largest population (shown as the largest slice of the pie diagram) is KwaZulu-Natal, followed by Gauteng, while the province with the smallest population, even though it contains the largest proportion of land, is the Northern Cape.