Census 2022, 10% Sample
South Africa, 2022
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Feb 24, 2026
Last modified
Feb 24, 2026
Country of birth (P12A_COUNTRYOFBIRTH)
Data file: sa-census-2022-person-v1
Overview
Valid:
4230792
Minimum:
111
Maximum:
999
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Width:
3
Format:
Numeric
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Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 111 | Lesotho (LSO) |
| 112 | Namibia (NAM) |
| 113 | Botswana (BWA) |
| 114 | Zimbabwe (ZWE) |
| 115 | Mozambique (MOZ) |
| 116 | The Kingdom of Eswatini (SWZ) |
| 121 | Angola (AGO) |
| 122 | Democratic Republic of Congo (COD) |
| 123 | Malawi (MWI) |
| 124 | Mauritius (MUS) |
| 125 | Seychelles (SYC) |
| 126 | Tanzania (TZA) |
| 127 | Zambia (ZMB) |
| 130 | Algeria (DZA) |
| 131 | Benin (BEN) |
| 132 | Burkina Faso (BFA) |
| 133 | Burundi (BDI) |
| 134 | Cameroon (CMR) |
| 135 | Cape Verde Island (CPV) |
| 136 | Central African Republic (CAF) |
| 137 | Chad (TCD |
| 138 | Comoros (COM) |
| 139 | Congo (COG) |
| 140 | Côte d’Ivoire (CIV) |
| 141 | Djibouti (DJI) |
| 142 | Egypt (EGY) |
| 143 | Equatorial Guinea (GNQ) |
| 144 | Eritrea (ERI) |
| 145 | Ethiopia (ETH) |
| 146 | Gabon (GAB) |
| 147 | Gambia (GMB) |
| 148 | Ghana (GHA) |
| 149 | Guinea (GIN) |
| 150 | Guinea-Bissau (GNB) |
| 151 | Kenya (KEN) |
| 152 | Liberia (LBR) |
| 153 | Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (LBY) |
| 154 | Madagascar (MDG) |
| 155 | Mali (MLI) |
| 156 | Mauritania (MRT) |
| 157 | Morocco (MAR) |
| 158 | Niger (NER) |
| 159 | Nigeria (NGA) |
| 160 | Réunion (REU) |
| 161 | Rwanda (RWA) |
| 162 | Saint Helena (SHN) |
| 163 | São Tomé and Príncipe (STP) |
| 164 | Senegal (SEN) |
| 165 | Sierra Leone (SLE) |
| 166 | Somalia (SOM) |
| 167 | Sudan (SDN) |
| 168 | Togo (TGO) |
| 169 | Tunisia (TUN) |
| 170 | Uganda (UGA) |
| 171 | Western Sahara (ESH) |
| 172 | South Sudan (SSD) |
| 201 | United States of America (USA) |
| 202 | Anguilla (AIA) |
| 203 | Antigua and Barbuda (ATG) |
| 204 | Argentina (ARG) |
| 205 | Aruba (ABW) |
| 206 | Bahamas (BHS) |
| 207 | Barbados (BRB) |
| 208 | Belize (BLZ) |
| 209 | Bermuda (BMU) |
| 210 | Bolivia, Plurinational State of (BOL) |
| 211 | Brazil (BRA) |
| 212 | British Virgin Islands (VGB) |
| 213 | Canada (CAN) |
| 215 | Cayman Islands (CYM) |
| 216 | Chile (CHL) |
| 217 | Colombia (COL) |
| 218 | Costa Rica (CRI) |
| 219 | Cuba (CUB) |
| 220 | Dominica (DMA) |
| 221 | Dominican Republic (DOM) |
| 222 | Ecuador (ECU) |
| 223 | El Salvador (SLV) |
| 224 | Falkland Islands (Malvinas) (FLK) |
| 225 | French Guiana (GUF) |
| 226 | Greenland (GRL) |
| 227 | Grenada (GRD) |
| 228 | Guadeloupe (GLP) |
| 229 | Guatemala (GTM) |
| 230 | Guyana (GUY) |
| 231 | Haiti (HTI) |
| 232 | Honduras (HND) |
| 233 | Jamaica (JAM) |
| 235 | Martinique (MTQ) |
| 236 | Mexico (MEX) |
| 237 | Montserrat (MSR) |
| 238 | Netherlands Antilles (ANT) |
| 239 | Nicaragua (NIC) |
| 240 | Panama (PAN) |
| 241 | Paraguay (PRY) |
| 242 | Peru (PER) |
| 243 | Puerto Rico (PRI) |
| 244 | Saint Kitts and Nevis (KNA) |
| 245 | Saint Lucia (LCA) |
| 246 | Saint Pierre and Miquelon (SPM) |
| 247 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (VCT) |
| 248 | Suriname (SUR) |
| 249 | Trinidad and Tobago (TTO) |
| 250 | Turks and Caicos Islands (TCA) |
| 251 | United States Virgin Islands (VIR) |
| 252 | Uruguay (URY) |
| 253 | Venezuela (VEN) |
| 256 | United States Minor Outlying Islands (UMI) |
| 257 | Saint Barthélemy (BLM) |
| 301 | China (CHN) |
| 302 | Afghanistan (AFG) |
| 303 | Armenia (ARM) |
| 304 | Azerbaijan (AZE) |
| 305 | Bahrain (BHR) |
| 306 | Bangladesh (BGD) |
| 307 | Bhutan (BTN) |
| 308 | Brunei Darussalam (BRN) |
| 309 | Cambodia (KHM |
| 310 | Cyprus (CYP) |
| 311 | Democratic People?s Republic of Korea (PRK) |
| 312 | Timor-Leste (TLS) |
| 313 | Georgia (GEO) |
| 314 | Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China (HKG) |
| 315 | India (IND) |
| 316 | Indonesia (IDN) |
| 317 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) (IRN) |
| 318 | Iraq (IRQ) |
| 319 | Israel (ISR) |
| 320 | Japan (JPN) |
| 321 | Jordan (JOR) |
| 322 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) |
| 323 | Kuwait (KWT) |
| 324 | Kyrgyzstan (KGZ) |
| 325 | Lao People's Democratic Republic (LAO) |
| 326 | Lebanon (LBN) |
| 327 | Macao Special Administrative Region of China (MAC) |
| 328 | Malaysia (MYS) |
| 329 | Maldives (MDV) |
| 330 | Mongolia (MNG) |
| 331 | Myanmar (MMR) |
| 332 | Nepal (NPL) |
| 333 | Occupied Palestinian Territory (PSE) |
| 334 | Oman (OMN) |
| 335 | Pakistan (PAK) |
| 336 | Philippines (PHL) |
| 337 | Qatar (QAT) |
| 338 | Republic of Korea (KOR) |
| 339 | Saudi Arabia (SAU) |
| 340 | Singapore (SGP) |
| 341 | Sri Lanka (LKA) |
| 342 | Syrian Arab Republic (SYR) |
| 343 | Taiwan Province of China (TWN) |
| 344 | Tajikistan (TJK) |
| 345 | Thailand (THA) |
| 346 | Turkey (TUR) |
| 347 | Turkmenistan (TKM) |
| 348 | United Arab Emirates (ARE) |
| 349 | Uzbekistan (UZB) |
| 350 | Viet Nam (VNM) |
| 351 | Yemen (YEM) |
| 401 | United Kingdom/Great Britain (GBR) |
| 402 | Albania (ALB) |
| 403 | Andorra (AND) |
| 404 | Austria (AUT) |
| 405 | Republic of Belarus (BLR) |
| 406 | Belgium (BEL) |
| 407 | Bosnia-Herzegovina (BIH) |
| 408 | Bulgaria (BGR) |
| 410 | Croatia (HRV) |
| 411 | Czech Republic (CZE) |
| 412 | Denmark (DNK) |
| 413 | Estonia (EST) |
| 414 | Faeroe Islands (FRO) |
| 415 | Finland (FIN) |
| 416 | France (FRA) |
| 417 | Germany (DEU) |
| 418 | Gibraltar (GIB) |
| 419 | Greece (GRC) |
| 420 | Holy See (Vatican City State) (VAT) |
| 421 | Hungary (HUN) |
| 422 | Iceland (ISL) |
| 423 | Ireland (IRL) |
| 424 | Isle of Man (IMN) |
| 425 | Italy (ITA) |
| 426 | Latvia (LVA) |
| 427 | Liechtenstein (LIE) |
| 428 | Lithuania (LTU) |
| 429 | Luxembourg (LUX) |
| 430 | Malta (MLT) |
| 431 | Monaco (MCO) |
| 432 | The Netherlands (NLD) |
| 433 | Norway (NOR) |
| 434 | Poland (POL) |
| 435 | Portugal (PRT) |
| 436 | Republic of Moldova (MDA) |
| 437 | Romania (ROU) |
| 438 | Russian Federation (RUS) |
| 439 | San Marino (SMR) |
| 440 | Slovakia (SVK) |
| 441 | Slovenia (SVN) |
| 443 | Spain (ESP) |
| 444 | Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands (SJM) |
| 445 | Sweden (SWE) |
| 446 | Switzerland (CHE) |
| 447 | The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (MKD) |
| 448 | Ukraine (UKR) |
| 450 | Montenegro (MNE) |
| 451 | Serbia (SRB) |
| 452 | Mayotte (MYT) |
| 453 | French Southern Territories (ATF) |
| 454 | Saint Martin (French part) (MAF) |
| 455 | British Indian Ocean Territory (IOT) |
| 456 | Bouvet Island (BVT) |
| 457 | South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGS) |
| 458 | Jersey (JEY) |
| 459 | Guernsey (GGY) |
| 460 | Åland Islands (ALA) |
| 501 | Australia (AUS) |
| 502 | American Samoa (ASM) |
| 503 | Cook Islands (COK) |
| 504 | Fiji (FJI) |
| 505 | French Polynesia (PYF) |
| 506 | Guam (GUM) |
| 507 | Kiribati (KIR) |
| 508 | Marshall Islands (MHL) |
| 511 | Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) |
| 512 | Nauru (NRU) |
| 513 | New Caledonia (NCL) |
| 514 | New Zealand (NZL) |
| 515 | Niue (NIU) |
| 516 | Norfolk Island (NFK) |
| 517 | Northern Mariana Islands (MNP) |
| 518 | Palau (PLW) |
| 519 | Papua New Guinea (PNG) |
| 520 | Pitcairn (PCN) |
| 522 | Samoa (WSM) |
| 523 | Solomon Islands (SLB) |
| 524 | Tokelau (TKL) |
| 525 | Tonga (TON) |
| 526 | Tuvalu (TUV) |
| 527 | Vanuatu (VUT) |
| 528 | Wallis and Futuna Islands (WLF) |
| 529 | Christmas Island (CXR) |
| 530 | Cocos (Keeling) Islands (CCK) |
| 531 | Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HMD) |
| 888 | Not applicable |
| 999 | Unspecified |
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.