South African statistics, verified and shareable

Derived from GHS 2025

Household electrification climbed to 90.6%

Mains-electricity connection rose by 13.9 percentage points between 2002 and 2025.

Three lines define money-metric poverty

Statistics South Africa’s 2026 national poverty lines set three monthly per-person thresholds: R868 for the food poverty line, R1,457 for the lower-bound line and R2,962 for the upper-bound line.