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Mortality and Causes of Death 2021-2022

South Africa, 2021 - 2022
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zaf-statssa-mcd-2021-2022-v1
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Statistics South Africa
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Nov 13, 2025
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Marital status of deceased (MStatus)

Data file: mcd-2021-deceased

Overview

Valid: 674761
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
loc_start_pos: 17
loc_end_pos: 17
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 9
Format: Numeric

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Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Never married 222998
33%
2 Married 164780
24.4%
3 Widowed 71597
10.6%
4 Divorced 14372
2.1%
5 Not applicable 51479
7.6%
9 Unspecified 149535
22.2%
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
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