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
Last modified
Nov 13, 2025
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Ascertainment of the cause of death (Ascertainment)
Data file: mcd-2021-deceased
Overview
Valid:
674761
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
25
loc_end_pos:
26
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 99
Format:
Numeric
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Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Autopsy | 54400 |
8.1%
|
| 2 | Post mortem examination | 25786 |
3.8%
|
| 3 | Opinion of attending medical practitioner | 366872 |
54.4%
|
| 4 | Opinion of attending medical practitioner on duty | 93310 |
13.8%
|
| 5 | Opinion of registered professional nurse | 5558 |
0.8%
|
| 6 | Interview of family member | 85471 |
12.7%
|
| 7 | Other | 5671 |
0.8%
|
| 8 | Autopsy results may be available later | 234 |
0%
|
| 9 | Autopsy not performed | 6108 |
0.9%
|
| 98 | Unknown | 1336 |
0.2%
|
| 99 | Unspecified | 30015 |
4.4%
|
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.