South Africa · Gauteng

Born in Johannesburg

Johannesburg is home to 9.4 million people in Gauteng. It is the largest city in South Africa. Sourced: GeoNames

Among the largest cities in South Africa

Sourced: GeoNames Population. Johannesburg is highlighted.

South Africa as a whole

• Life expectancy at birth: 62.6 years for boys, 69.6 for girls Sourced: UN WPP 2024
• Children who die before age 5: 37.4 in every 1,000 births Sourced: UN WPP 2024

These are national figures: the game does not have separate health figures for Johannesburg. More about South Africa

Live a life in Johannesburg

Choose Johannesburg and you are born there, to a family drawn from the real mix of the place. Then you live it year by year, with a few choices that bend the odds. About an hour, and every life replays exactly from its seed.

Be born in Johannesburg

Other large cities in Gauteng

• Pretoria2.1 million
• Soweto1.7 million

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