Statistics South Africa (2002) and Hoogeveen & Ozler (2006) found that poverty increased between 1995 and 2000. Hoogeveen & Ozler (2006) estimate that 12.6 million South Africans were living on less than PPP$1 per day in 1995 compared to 14.4 million in 2000 and that 22.9 million South Africans were living on less than PPP$2 per day in 1995 rising to 25.2m in 2000. The direction of these findings accords with the census based analysis presented earlier.