DOES ANYONE know where I can get South African mortality stats?

Question

I need mortality stats (# of deaths at different ages) for South Africa over a long peroid (ie: 1900-present day). I checked out StatsSA, but can only seem to find data from 1997 onwards.

Can anyone help?

Answer 1

Finding statistics on death and mortality seems pretty easy when you think about it. But once you start looking, the task becomes more and more of an impossibility. And getting information that is older than 100 years is probably very hard to find and somewhere tucked away in a dust-covered book in a library nobody even thought of looking in.

I suggest that you change your search attempts to a more attainable field of research. Start looking for stats on Africa and work from there to find stats on Southern Africa and take away the information that doesn't relate to South Africa. Your search would then for insrtance look something like this: "From 1900 to present 100 people died of cancer, 50 people from breast cancer that is only common in the southern parts of Africa, which means 20 people died in South Africa with cancer as the cause because other countries claimed 30 people." Please regard this as an example.

Also search for specifics, like population increases or decreases and then compare that to projected totals and real totals. General mortality rates are based on population growth. Prenatal and perinatal mortality stats are very difficult to find, because abortions were not recorded properly until recent years. I personally know of three such cases in the Western Cape Region. But you can still find some information on it although it may be more in general than factual. Infant mortality rates and stats are easier to find, because our grandparents were very cautious about children getting sick. They thought that when kids got sick it was very dangerous to adults and infant deaths were therefore well documented. Then look for adult deaths. So change your information search from South Africans to Africans and then to a)prenatal, b) infant and lastly c) adult.

The next approach you should take is to look for stats or studies on the ratio of deaths according to sex, social class, occupation and marital status. Meaning you need to search for deaths or stats on married men and women, blacks and whites, etc.

The last search should be on deaths by cause. Crime and other studies of demographic relevance on causes of death. Studies of morbidity and of public health measures should be included in your search only if they relate specifically to mortality are also easy to find. Also include in your search maternal mortality and comparisons of causes.

And once you have all these information, go back to the drawing board and eliminate anything that doesn't pertain to South Africa. BUT IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR STATISTICS ON THIS ISSUE...THERE ISN'T ANY.

The Population Index on the web http://popindex.princeton.edu/index.html has a lot of information on South Africa and has a very complete list on South African Specialist Writers on the subject. All of whom are based at South African Universities, so ask the guys that know. Go to the nearest University and ask who has contributed to this site and in what way. The South African Medical Journal http://www.ajol.info/journal_index.php?ab=samj&jid=76 should have some information as well. Use the search options in both the links to help you.

Cheers!

Answer 2

1.) Medical research council may be able to provide help - also check out Wits Library - in the Old Education building - they have every issue ever to come out. I don't think you'll find it in a neat little bundle for you, but if you're prepared to do the sniffing - the medical library will have all the info you need in various volumes. The librarians will be able to assist you, I'm sure, especially if you're an allumni. If you are not associated to it in any way, you can get a day pass if you're up in Jhb. UCT &RAU also have "medical" libraries, so try them out if they are closer to you.

The medical research council is helpful if you make the right noises. Good luck. Oh - and google it - I'm sure beyond the first page you'll find more than StatsSA

Answer 3

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Answer 4

There are some rather illinformed answers here - all deaths are reported, whether the deceased is illegally in the country or not.

Answer 5

Ahoy amigo... sorry mate but i havent got a cooking clue where you can get info like that... best of luck with that almost imossible task..

Answer 6

you will have a real uphill getting the # cause a lot of deaths were and still is not being reported.

but good luck

Answer 7

Nee bliksem ek weet nie!

Sorry boeta!

Ya ya you actor, lol

Answer 8

Even if you get it, it won't be correct; lots of deaths are not reported, because of the high persentage of illegal people dying here.

Answer 9

try the CIA Factbook (you can google it)

Answer 10

oh no... you dont want those. they are depro. try stats sa