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The South African National ID is South Africa’s national ID system that verifies citizen data against the official population registry. A tamper-resistant smart ID card is issued at age 16, and is compulsory for citizens and permanent residents; it serves as the primary identification document for government and private-sector transactions.

Adoption data

This section provides insights into the adoption of South Africa National ID among users in South Africa.
Adoption60 million
Adoption sourceN/A
Adoption rate125.79%
Coverage48M
StatusComing soon!

Provider ID

This is the unique identifier for this digital ID provider in the GBG GO system.
Provider IDsouth-africa-nid-lookup-2

Compliance

This section outlines compliance and regulatory requirements for integrating this digital ID provider.
Compliance dataStatus
Locality requirementsNone
Scheme-level restrictionsNone
CertificationsNone

Supported attributes

The following attributes are returned when South Africa National ID is used for identity verification:

Always returned attributes

The following attributes are always returned from a successful verification from this ID Provider.
FieldDescription
fullNameUser’s full legal name
dateOfBirthUser’s date of birth
sexUser’s gender
typeType of identity document
numberIdentity document number
nationalIdNumberMatched national ID number
match fullNameFull name from the matched record
match sexGender from the matched record
match dateOfBirthDate of birth from the matched record

Required input attributes

The following attributes are required as input to perform identity verification with this ID Provider.
FieldDescription
fullNamePerson’s full legal name
dateOfBirthPerson’s date of birth
genderPerson’s gender
nationalIdNumberNational identification number