Statistician General Risenga Maluleke says about a quarter of all people in the country reside in Gauteng.

JOHANNESBURG - South Africa’s latest population figures reveal the number of people living in the country has increased by 1.5% to 57.7 million people.

Statistician General Risenga Maluleke released the mid-year population estimates at a briefing in Pretoria on Monday.

Risenga says about a quarter of all people in the country reside in Gauteng.

“Gauteng continues to claim its stake in terms of population, sitting at 14.72 million followed by KwaZulu-Natal at about 11.38 million."

He says South Africa's fertility rate is declining.

“In 2018 the estimate for the number of children a woman will give birth to in her lifetime is 2.4 children on average. If you look at where we were in 2008, we were sitting at 2.8.”