Capital

Pretoria

Population

56 million

GDP

$ 361 billion

Size

1 219 090 km2

Currency

South-African Rand (ZAR)

Health care system

Since the end of the Apartheid in 1994, the health care system has been made more accessible including, among others, free health care for pregnant women and children of less than 6 years of age, as well as the opening of new medical care centers. However, health insurance is mandatory for every foreigner using the South-African public or private health care system.