According to the AMPS and MAPS datasets, available through Eighty20’s data portal, the number of single mothers in South Africa has grown by 126% over the last 2 decades. More specifically, around 3.0m single South African women had a young or unmarried child living at home in 2004. The number of single women who have children living with them in 2023 reached 6.9m.

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