Number of children reached by National School Nutrition Programme
This data contains the average number of children who received meals per financial year through the National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP) in public schools in South Africa and the nine provinces. The programme aims to reach children attending public schools located in lower socioeconomic areas (or quintile 1 - 3 schools). Note: the data is patchy and incomplete because there is no one source. The NSNP produced annual reports up to 2013/2014. After that information on the number of children reached per year was not published in one place or consistently. The information from 2014/2015 onwards was extracted from the annual reports of the Department of Basic Education, the provincial education departments and, in the case of 2025/2026, a presentation by the NSNP presented in parliament. Caution: The provincial data extracted for 2015/2016 from the provincial annual reports does not add up to the South African total extracted from the DBE annual report.
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The data
6 rows, 11 columns.
- year Category
- Financial year. Starts 1 April, ends 31 March 2009/2010, 2011/2012, 2013/2014, 2014/2015, 2015/2016, 2025/2026
- eastern_cape Number
- Number of children reached in Eastern Cape schools 1355689 – 1751931
- free_state Number
- Number of children reached in Free State schools 438937 – 585609
- gauteng Number
- Number of children reached in Gauteng schools 608189 – 1292811
- kwazulu-natal Number
- 1791780 – 2273395
- limpopo Number
- Number of children reached in Limpopo schools 1229396 – 1686015
- mpumalanga Number
- Number of children reached in Mpumalanga schools 641023 – 1001685
- northern_cape Number
- Number of children reached in Northern Cape schools 174697 – 258983
- north_west Number
- Number of children reached in North West schools 484879 – 657952
- western_cape Number
- Number of children reached in Western Cape schools 334287 – 540406
- south_africa Number
- Number of children reached in South Africa's schools 7125273 – 9630590
First rows
| year | eastern_cape | free_state | gauteng | kwazulu-natal | limpopo | mpumalanga | northern_cape | north_west | western_cape | south_africa |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009/2010 | 1355689 | 438937 | 608189 | 1791780 | 1229396 | 641023 | 241093 | 484879 | 334287 | 7125273 |
| 2011/2012 | 1589104 | 517251 | 1012545 | 2140959 | 1563994 | 834747 | 186829 | 578072 | 426707 | 8850208 |
| 2013/2014 | 1646142 | 533252 | 1262749 | 2044596 | 1536449 | 874197 | 197696 | 613654 | 423103 | 9131836 |
| 2014/2015 | 456520 | 9210673 | ||||||||
| 2015/2016 | 1751931 | 573284 | 1292811 | 2273395 | 1538062 | 892202 | 258983 | 657952 | 469721 | 9630590 |
| 2025/2026 | 1583893 | 585609 | 1163885 | 2110953 | 1686015 | 1001685 | 174697 | 638961 | 540406 | 9486104 |
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