Statistics South Africa (2025, 28 July). Mid-year population estimates 2025. Statistical release P0302. Pretoria: Stats SA.
The release puts the mid-2025 population at 63.1 million, life expectancy at birth at 66.9 years and the number of people living with HIV at 8.15 million. The wiki uses it in South Africa on the Curve for the latest health readings and to note the gap between this estimate and the United Nations figure carried in the World Bank series.