Population, total
RecordSTO-FVT0KTH9GC-NXGC1YW95Y-4W91A7
South Africa · 2016
Population, total in South Africa was 57,259,551 in 2016 (World Bank).
- Publisher
- World Bank
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- SP.POP.TOTL: {"countryiso3code":"ZAF","date":"2016","indicator.id":"SP.POP.TOTL"}
- Retrieved
- 4 Oct 2026
- Status
- Verified
Dataset evidence (generated description)
Dataset evidence (generated): SP.POP.TOTL, ZA, 2016-01-01 to 2016-12-31: 57259551 count (scale 1).
Checked: the figure 57,259,551matches the queried row in the pinned dataset response. If it does not match, the extraction is wrong and we want to know.
Cite this figure
APA
World Bank. (2016). World Bank population, total. Retrieved October 4, 2026, from https://api.worldbank.org/v2/country/all/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?format=json&per_page=20000&date=2015:2025. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_FVT0KTH9GCNXGC1YW95Y4W91A7
Other formats: MLA, Chicago, BibTeX
- MLA
- World Bank. "World Bank population, total." 2016, https://api.worldbank.org/v2/country/all/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?format=json&per_page=20000&date=2015:2025. Accessed 4 Oct. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_FVT0KTH9GCNXGC1YW95Y4W91A7.
- Chicago
- World Bank. "World Bank population, total." 2016. https://api.worldbank.org/v2/country/all/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?format=json&per_page=20000&date=2015:2025. Accessed October 4, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_FVT0KTH9GCNXGC1YW95Y4W91A7.
- BibTeX
- @misc{worldbank2016population4w91a7, author = {{World Bank}}, title = {World Bank population, total}, year = {2016}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_FVT0KTH9GCNXGC1YW95Y4W91A7}, note = {Original source: https://api.worldbank.org/v2/country/all/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?format=json\&per\_page=20000\&date=2015:2025. Accessed October 4, 2026.} }
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Primary source
- Publisher
- World Bank · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- World Bank population, total
- Type
- Dataset
- Evidence
- Dataset response (generated description)
- Dataset
- SP.POP.TOTL
- Version
- WDI 2026-07-13
- Methodology
- Publisher methodology ↗
- Response SHA-256
4fbcfd2b877de4be059fcc3825bdecb43206853b7e1005ddbceba16887c1cc7a- Response retrieved
- 4 October 2026
- Published
- —
- Locator
- SP.POP.TOTL: {"countryiso3code":"ZAF","date":"2016","indicator.id":"SP.POP.TOTL"}
- Retrieved
- 4 October 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- CC by 4.0
Verification
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- dataset:raw-row-check-v1
- Checked on
- 4 October 2026
- Last revision
- 4 October 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_FVT0KTH9GCNXGC1YW95Y4W91A7