South African community health profile

Overview

The South African community health profile has identified and summarised the national and local evidence relating to the health, lifestyle behaviours and wider determinants of health that affect the South African community.

Although the focus of this report was health inequalities among the South African community in Birmingham, the limited available information on health inequalities has resulted in data being used from the UK and internationally where available.

Community definition

Within this community health profile, the South African population was defined by the census 2021 category on country of birth ‘Africa: South and Eastern Africa: South Africa’.

We acknowledge that using country of birth data will only be applicable to first generation migrants, however categorising the population in this way enabled analysis of a greater number of datasets.

Birmingham Public Health’s demographic data collection tool suggests inclusion of an open response question on ‘country/countries of heritage’ to capture the South African population more accurately.

For more information about how Birmingham City Council is standardising demographic data, see the demographics questionnaire.

Population size

Population size estimates have been taken from the 2021 census for England and Wales, using the 190-country category dataset for country of birth.

  • England and Wales: 217,180 people born in South Africa
  • Birmingham: 1,629 people born in South Africa

Health and wellbeing

To find out more about the health and wellbeing needs, and the identified health inequalities of the South African community, download the South African Community Health Profile report.

Available resources

To help you understand more about the health inequalities among the South African community, we have produced several resources, including:

View all South African community health profile downloads

Webinar

Watch our webinar which provides a summary of the demographics and key health inequalities among the South African community:

You can switch on subtitles once you have started to play the video. A menu will appear on screen.

Page last updated: 25 April 2024

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