{"id":171492,"date":"2017-09-29T14:35:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T14:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/?p=171492"},"modified":"2017-09-29T14:36:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T14:36:17","slug":"age-structure-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/age-structure-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Age Structure in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The age structure of the population reflects the changes in fertility and life expectancy.\u00a0 South Africa\u2019s current population pyramid is typical of a developing country.<\/p>\n<p>Information on the size, distribution and characteristics of a country\u2019s population is essential for describing and assessing its economic, social and demographic circumstances and for developing sound policies and programmes. The statistics are used as a critical reference to ensure equity in the distribution of wealth, government services and funds among various regions and districts of a country to fund for education and health services (UN, 1998).<\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0graph shows the age structure in South Africa from 2005 to 2015. In 2015, about 29.24 percent of South Africa&#8217;s total population were aged 0 to 14 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"694\" height=\"472\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-171493\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/age_structure_sa.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/age_structure_sa.png 694w, https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/age_structure_sa-300x204.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The age structure of the population reflects the changes in fertility and life expectancy.\u00a0 South Africa\u2019s current population pyramid is typical of a developing country. Information on the size, distribution and characteristics of a country\u2019s population is essential for describing and assessing its economic, social and demographic circumstances and for developing sound policies and programmes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":171496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171495,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171492\/revisions\/171495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}