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South Africa

Scores 65.9 out of 100.0 in Overall Governance, ranking 4th out of 54 in Africa.

Scores higher than the African average (49.3) and higher than the regional average for Southern Africa (54.6).

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South Africa

Capital city: Pretoria

Region: Southern Africa

REC membership(s): 

SADC
Downloads

60.4M

Population (2023)

68.8%

Urban population (2023)

34.4%

Youth population (ages 15-34) (2023)

$377.78bn

GDP (2023) (USD)

0.6%

GDP growth (2023)

$6,253

GDP per capita (2023) (USD)

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    • Public Perception of Overall Governance

    About Citizens’ Voices

    As citizens are the recipients of public leadership and governance, the assessment of governance performance of the IIAG is accompanied by the Citizens’ Voices dataset in an effort to contextualise the official and expert assessment data in the IIAG with the reality on the ground as perceived by citizens.

    MIF has been working with and supporting Afrobarometer, the leading pan-African research institution conducting public opinion surveys on the continent, and the 2022 IIAG framework gives these more prominence. Formerly scattered at various levels in the IIAG, citizens’ assessments of various governance components are now highlighted in a Citizens’ Voices section, providing a comprehensive 'reality check' to complement the IIAG results.

    This section mirrors the IIAG categories and provides public perception data on the closest proxies to the IIAG measures. However, whilst these measures are available to compare across the IIAG, it is important to note that their scores do not form part of the calculation for Overall Governance.

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