Population Living in Poverty

* The dataset shows estimates of the total population living in poverty. The data was allocated to mesozones by combining with a base mesozone layer. The estimate is a sum of income levels below the upper bound poverty line. In a report by Stats SA in which poverty trends between 2006 and 2011 are examined it is stated that: * Approximately a third (32,9%) of all households in South Africa were living below the upper bound poverty line. * The education level of the household head is closely related with levels of poverty - two thirds (65,0%) of households where the head had no formal education were poor as compared with only 2,8% of households where the head had a post-matric qualification. * Limpopo was the only province in which the majority (50,9%) of households were living in poverty - nevertheless, although Gauteng (16,2%) had the lowest incidence of poor households, the large number of households in the province meant that more than one in ten (12,8%) poor households in South Africa were found in Gauteng. * More than half (55,2%) of all households in rural areas were poor compared to approximately a quarter (22,0%) of households in urban areas.