POPULATION EXPLOSION 1910 TO 2016
By 1800 World Population had reached one billion people for the first time. This had increased to 2,3 billion by 1950. The statistic exploded to 7,0 billion by 2011 and projections for 2050 anticipate an increase to 9,3 billion people. Further projections of World Population to the year 2100 are in some cases as high as 15.8 billion.
We have seen one billion people in the first eighteen hundred years since the birth of Christ and we expect an additional fourteen billion eight hundred million people in the three hundred years that follow. It is a horrifying and exponential progression and one which is both appalling and catastrophic. It is sad testimony to man’s innate fallibility and absolute stupidity. While projections for the more developed nations are relatively flat, 97% of this anticipated increase will be experienced in less developed nations.
Most disturbingly 49% of that increment will be experienced in Africa.
South Africa’s contribution to the exponential growth on the African continent is equally appalling. While Whites, Coloureds and Asians grew from 1 922 000 individuals in 1910 to 10 798 984 in 2016, an increase of 5,6x, Blacks numbers increased in the same period from 3 956 000 to 45 109 881 people, an increase of 11,4x.
Blacks represented 67% of South Africa’s population in 1910, whilst in 2016 they had grown to represented 81% of the population. The other race groups had declined from 33% in 1910 to 19% in 2016.
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SA Population: 1910 to 2016 |
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Black |
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3 956 000 |
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67,00 |
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45 109 881 |
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81,00 |
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White |
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1 257 000 |
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21,00 |
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4 515 774 |
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Coloured |
517 000 |
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9,00 |
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4 897 208 |
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Asian |
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148 000 |
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3,00 |
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1 386 002 |
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1,00 |
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5 878 000 |
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55 908 865 |
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100,00 |
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Continuation of this historic population growth trend is unsustainable given South Africa’s current unresolved challenges:
There is no doubt that European Colonization and Apartheid impacted the lives of Black South Africans between 1910 and 1994. Where shall we lay blame for the Black population explosion in that same period?