Census In Brief

2.26 Level of education by gender and population group amongst those aged 20 years or more by province (numbers)*

	Eastern Cape	Free State	Gauteng	Kwazulu- Natal	Mpuma- langa	Northern Cape	Northern Province	North West	Western Cape	South Africa
No schooling
Male	244,416	111,254	215,729	370,111	173,490	47,188	252,673	196,177	77,819	1,688,858
Female	373,380	124,895	203,428	587,106	236,846	50,503	518,914	206,966	75,290	2,377,329
Total	617,796	236,148	419,157	957,217	410,337	97,692	771,587	403,143	153,109	4,066,187
Some primary
Male	286,561	165,788	284,351	315,547	105,801	45,665	112,339	185,279	183,116	1,684,447
Female	348,914	162,288	232,273	432,039	105,415	48,905	139,948	179,018	179,168	1,827,968
Total	635,475	328,076	516,624	747,586	211,217	94,571	252,286	364,297	362,285	3,512,415
Complete primary
Male	105,042	62,452	150,150	122,329	47,018	17,679	52,475	65,707	92,159	715,010
Female	159,194	67,857	145,494	156,106	48,765	21,899	71,902	73,296	112,252	856,765
Total	264,236	130,308	295,643	278,435	95,783	39,578	124,377	139,004	204,411	1,571,774
Some secondary
Male	395,492	239,057	881,183	626,450	200,663	65,760	251,196	266,776	421,441	3,348,017
Female	570,849	254,091	899,185	702,258	202,811	73,473	305,472	294,212	479,755	3,782,104
Total	966,341	493,148	1,780,368	1,328,708	403,474	139,233	556,667	560,987	901,196	7,130,121
Std 10/Grade 12
Male	147,016	99,080	524,528	314,007	98,736	26,170	134,630	114,094	202,738	1,660,999
Female	181,621	100,574	518,216	351,296	104,366	27,311	159,074	122,094	232,882	1,797,435
Total	328,637	199,654	1,042,744	665,303	203,102	53,482	293,703	236,188	435,620	3,458,434
Higher
Male	60,047	37,697	192,222	100,063	37,465	13,264	47,397	36,281	124,550	648,985
Female	79,153	38,568	177,406	100,756	32,086	12,675	46,711	38,978	119,404	645,736
Total	139,200	76,265	369,627	200,819	69,551	25,939	94,107	75,258	243,954	1,294,720
Total
Male	1,238,574	715,327	2,248,162	1,848,507	663,174	215,726	850,709	864,314	1,101,823	9,746,317
Female	1,713,111	748,272	2,176,001	2,329,560	730,289	234,767	1,242,019	914,563	1,198,752	11,287,335
Total	2,951,685	1,463,599	4,424,163	4,178,068	1,393,463	450,493	2,092,728	1,778,877	2,300,575	21,033,652

* Excluding unspecified/other

Percentage of the population aged 20 years or more in each educational category by population group – October 1996*

• Twenty-four percent of Africans have received no education (lowest section of the left-hand column), as against 10% of coloureds, 7% of Indians and 1% of whites.