South Africa: sources of income for households | Statista

As of 2019, approximately 10.68 million out of South Africa's 17.16 million households drew their income from regular salaries, wages or commissions. 7.9 million households received social grants paid by the government for citizens in need of state support.

Different sources of income for households in South Africa in 2019 (in 1,000s)

Characteristic	Number of households in thousands
Salaries/wages/commission	10,683
Grants	7,921
Income from a business	2,798
Remittances	2,682
Pensions	687
Other income e.g. rental income, interest	486
Sales of farm products and services	286

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December 2020

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South Africa

Survey time period

2019

Supplementary notes

The source mentioned that more than one source of income was possible per household 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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