South Africa: social grant recipients, by province

As of 2019, approximately 18 million South Africans vulnerable to poverty or in need of state support received social grants, relief assistance or social relief paid by the government. The number of social grant recipients was proportionally high in Kwazulu-Natal, amounting to just over four million people.

Population that received social grants, relief assistance or social relief in South Africa in 2019, by province (in 1,000s)

Characteristic	Population in thousands
Kwazulu-Natal	4,111
Gauteng	2,878
Eastern Cape	2,801
Limpopo	2,312
Western Cape	1,587
Mpumalanga	1,568
North West	1,353
Free State	1,027
Northern Cape	417

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December 2020

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South Africa

Survey time period

2019

Supplementary notes

The source mentioned that totals excluded unspecified grant receipts and that values based on three or less unweighted cases were considered too small to provide accurate estimates and therefore replaced by asterisks.

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