sahr2001 - Health Systems Trust

17 • Health and Related Indicators
Distribution
Definitions:
Non-Urban Percentage: Proportion of population living in a non-urban
environment. Non-urban, or rural areas include commercial farms, small
settlements, rural villages and other areas that are further away from towns
and cities. The definition includes semi-urban areas that are not part of a
legally proclaimed urban area, but adjoin it.
Urban Percentage: Proportion of population living in urban environment.
An urban area is one that has been legally proclaimed as being urban e.g.
towns, cities and metropolitan areas.
Eastern Cape
Free State
Gauteng
KwaZulu-Natal
Mpumalanga
Northern Cape
Northern Province
North West
Western Cape
South Africa
Area (square km)
1996 1 169 580 129 480 17 010 92 100 79 490 361 830 123 910 116 320 129 370 1 219 090
Area as a % of total area of South Africa
1996 1 13.9 10.6 1.4 7.6 6.5 29.7 10.2 9.5 10.6 100.0
Non-Urban Percentage
1996 1 63.4 31.4 3.0 56.9 60.9 29.9 89.0 65.1 11.1 46.3
Urban Percentage
1996 1 36.6 68.6 97.0 43.1 39.1 70.1 11.0 34.9 88.9 53.7
Population density (people per km 2 )
1996 1 38.4 21.0 448.4 95.1 36.7 2.3 41.7 29.9 31.5 34.4
1. Ref: Census 96 (Table 1.1, Table 2.4)
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