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Johannesburg - A study released on Thursday by the Bureau of Market Research (BMR) at the University of South Africa (Unisa)
estimates the size of South Africa's emerging black middle class as 9.3 million in 2007 from 6.3 million in 2001.
The research also shows that the growth rate of the population of the emerging black middle class aged 16 years and over was 6.5% per annum during the period 2001 - 2007.
Females contributed about half the population of the emerging black middle class aged 16 years and over in 2007.
The report says that an emerging black middle class female has two to three children by the end of her reproductive life.
The research estimates that KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng and Mpumalanga (in this order) accommodate the largest proportions of South Africa's emerging black middle class.
The middle class is defined as Africans/blacks aged 16 years and over and within Living Standards Measures 5-7.
- I-Net Bridge