National and Regional Economically Active Population Profile QLFS Q2:2021

October 3, 2021
Written by Gary Watkins
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National Economically Active Population Profile QLFS Q2:2021

National EAP by population group/race and gender (15-64yrs)

National and Regional EAP Q2:2021

	AM	CM	IM	WM	AF	CF	IF	WF	TOTAL
South Africa	43.8%	4.7%	1.8%	4.7%	36.3%	4.0%	0.9%	3.8%	100.0%

	AM	CM	IM	WM	AF	CF	IF	WF	TOTAL
Western cape	22.2%	22.9%	1.0%	8.8%	17.4%	20.2%	0.2%	7.4%	100.0%

	AM	CM	IM	WM	AF	CF	IF	WF	TOTAL
Eastern Cape	44.3%	5.2%	1.0%	2.5%	40.7%	4.2%	0.2%	1.8%	100.0%

	AM	CM	IM	WM	AF	CF	IF	WF	TOTAL
Northern Cape	28.8%	24.9%	0.0%	3.3%	20.4%	20.2%	0.5%	2.0%	100.0%

	AM	CM	IM	WM	AF	CF	IF	WF	TOTAL
Free State	48.2%	1.3%	0.5%	4.4%	41.9%	1.1%	0.0%	2.7%	100.0%

	AM	CM	IM	WM	AF	CF	IF	WF	TOTAL
KwaZulu-Natal	44.9%	0.8%	5.0%	1.7%	42.7%	0.5%	3.1%	1.3%	100.0%

	AM	CM	IM	WM	AF	CF	IF	WF	TOTAL
North West	56.9%	0.4%	0.6%	2.7%	35.2%	0.4%	0.1%	3.8%	100.0%

	AM	CM	IM	WM	AF	CF	IF	WF	TOTAL
Gauteng	45.3%	1.5%	1.7%	6.9%	36.5%	1.3%	1.1%	5.8%	100.0%

	AM	CM	IM	WM	AF	CF	IF	WF	TOTAL
Mpumalanga	49.9%	0.2%	0.6%	3.7%	43.3%	0.3%	0.1%	1.9%	100.0%

	AM	CM	IM	WM	AF	CF	IF	WF	TOTAL
Limpopo	54.1%	0.0%	1.0%	1.5%	42.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	100.0%

Graphic Representation of National and Regional EAP Q2:2021

Original Data Source - StatsSA 19 August 2021

Population group	Male					Female					Total
	Total	NEA	Economically active			Total	NEA	Economically active			Total	NEA	Economically active
	Total	NEA	Total	Employed	Unemployed	Total	NEA	Total	Employed	Unemployed	Total	NEA	Total	Employed	Unemployed
	Thousand	Thousand	Thousand	Thousand	Thousand	Thousand	Thousand	Thousand	Thousand	Thousand	Thousand	Thousand	Thousand	Thousand	Thousand

South Africa
Black African	15,941	5,976	9,965	6,378	3,587	16,212	7,937	8,275	4,886	3,389	32,152	13,912	18,240	11,264	6,976
Coloured	1,705	640	1,065	774	291	1,832	916	917	643	274	3,537	1,556	1,981	1,416	565
Indian/ Asian	537	135	401	329	72	492	288	204	158	46	1,029	423	605	487	118
White	1,440	363	1,077	981	96	1,441	577	864	793	71	2,881	940	1,941	1,774	167
Total	19,623	7,114	12,508	8,462	4,047	19,977	9,717	10,259	6,480	3,779	39,599	16,832	22,768	14,942	7,826

Western cape
Black African	874	198	676	473	203	873	342	530	335	195	1,747	541	1,206	808	398
Coloured	1,093	398	695	521	175	1,167	554	613	454	158	2,260	952	1,308	975	333
Indian/ Asian	46	17	29	18	11	24	19	5	5		70	36	34	23	11
White	351	83	268	245	23	390	166	224	205	19	740	249	492	450	42
Total	2,364	697	1,668	1,256	411	2,453	1,081	1,372	1,000	372	4,818	1,778	3,040	2,256	784

Eastern Cape
Black African	1,823	788	1,035	510	525	1,928	978	949	466	484	3,751	1,766	1,985	976	1,008
Coloured	204	82	122	85	37	216	118	98	62	35	420	200	219	147	72
Indian/ Asian	26	2	24	20	4	17	12	5	2	3	43	14	29	22	7
White	95	37	59	52	6	73	30	43	37	6	168	67	102	89	13
Total	2,148	909	1,239	668	572	2,234	1,139	1,095	567	528	4,382	2,048	2,335	1,235	1,100

Northern Cape
Black African	187	84	103	66	37	200	127	73	42	31	387	211	176	108	68
Coloured	188	99	89	70	19	208	136	72	59	13	396	236	161	129	32
Indian/ Asian	1	1				2		2	2		3	1	2	2
White	16	5	12	11	1	15	8	7	7		31	13	19	18	1
Total	393	189	203	147	56	425	271	154	110	44	817	461	357	256	100

Free State
Black African	835	287	548	344	204	933	457	477	287	189	1,768	743	1,025	631	394
Coloured	18	3	15	4	10	20	7	13	6	6	38	11	27	10	17
Indian/ Asian	8	2	6	5	1	5	5				13	7	6	5	1
White	55	6	50	48	2	46	15	31	29	2	101	21	80	77	3
Total	916	297	618	401	218	1,004	484	520	322	198	1,920	782	1,138	723	415

KwaZulu-Natal
Black African	3,097	1,487	1,610	1,101	509	3,449	1,918	1,531	954	577	6,547	3,405	3,141	2,055	1,086
Coloured	37	9	27	22	5	52	33	19	13	6	88	42	46	35	11
Indian/ Asian	264	83	181	143	38	265	155	110	90	20	529	239	291	233	58
White	71	10	61	54	7	82	37	45	44	1	153	47	106	98	8
Total	3,469	1,589	1,879	1,320	560	3,848	2,143	1,705	1,101	604	7,317	3,732	3,584	2,421	1,163

North West
Black African	1,287	428	859	539	320	1,224	692	532	331	201	2,511	1,120	1,391	871	521
Coloured	17	12	5	5		19	13	6	3	3	36	24	11	9	3
Indian/ Asian	15	6	9	9		14	12	1	1		29	19	10	10
White	48	7	42	32	9	58	1	57	57		106	7	99	90	9
Total	1,368	453	915	586	329	1,314	718	596	393	203	2,682	1,170	1,511	979	533

Gauteng
Black African	4,593	1,335	3,258	2,068	1,190	4,243	1,616	2,627	1,487	1,140	8,837	2,951	5,885	3,555	2,330
Coloured	140	33	108	62	45	140	49	92	41	51	281	81	200	103	96
Indian/ Asian	143	19	124	106	19	142	64	79	56	22	286	83	203	162	41
White	680	186	494	452	41	670	255	415	376	39	1,350	441	908	828	80
Total	5,557	1,573	3,983	2,688	1,296	5,196	1,983	3,213	1,961	1,252	10,753	3,557	7,196	4,648	2,548

Mpumalanga
Black African	1,411	513	898	587	311	1,425	646	780	469	310	2,837	1,159	1,678	1,056	621
Coloured	8	3	4	4		6	2	5	3	1	14	5	9	8	1
Indian/ Asian	11		11	11		3	2	1	1		15	2	13	13
White	91	24	67	60	7	78	44	34	29	4	169	68	100	89	11
Total	1,521	541	980	663	318	1,513	693	819	503	316	3,034	1,234	1,800	1,166	634

Limpopo
Black African	1,832	855	977	690	287	1,936	1,160	776	514	262	3,769	2,015	1,753	1,204	550
Coloured						5	4	0	0		5	4	0	0
Indian/ Asian	22	4	18	18		19	19	0	0		41	23	18	18
White	33	6	26	26		30	21	8	8		63	28	35	35
Total	1,887	865	1,022	734	287	1,990	1,205	785	523	262	3,877	2,070	1,807	1,257	550

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