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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Nov 13, 2025

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Natural/non-natural underlying causes of death (NaturalUnnatural)

Data file: mcd-2022-deceased

Overview

Valid: 515177

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 39

loc_end_pos: 39

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 2

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Natural underlying cause	449019	87.2%
2	Non-natural underlying cause	66158	12.8%

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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