Rascasse Audience Intelligence

Documentary movies Audience in South Africa

A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about Documentary movies in South Africa — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. Documentary movies has an estimated audience of 2,257,600 people in South Africa.

#3among Movie genre in South Africa
#170among Topic in South Africa
#17in Movies & TV

Documentary movies has an estimated audience of 2,257,600 people in South Africa. 51.4% are female, 48.6% are male, average age 37.2. Top brand affinities: K-pop, Mondo film, Hyperbole, Exploitation film, The Voice of Germany.

Top brand affinities include K-pop, Mondo film, Hyperbole, with strongest over-indexing on K-pop (1.6× the country average).

Demographically, the Documentary movies audience skews balanced with an average age of 37.2, and over-indexes on personality traits such as Spirituality, Social Media Usage.

The typical Documentary movies fan in South Africa is balanced, around 37.2 years old, with strong Spirituality tendencies and a notable affinity for K-pop.

Category: Movies & TV · Type: Topic · Subtype: Movie genre

The data on this page comes from the Rascasse audience panel and is refreshed monthly from search, social and browsing signals. As of 2026-08-18.

Section 01

At a glance

The key figures that characterise the Documentary movies profile in South Africa.

Audience size
2.3M
in South Africa
Gender
51.4%
48.6% male
Age
37.2
average years
Country rank
#261
Topic in South Africa
Fig. 01

Search interest · 12-month trend

-24%
vs. last year
JanMarMayJulSepNov
Monthly searches · Source: Rascasse Audience Intelligence
Section 02

Demographics of Documentary movies fans

51.4% are female, 48.6% are male, average age 37.2.

Fig. 02

Gender split

51.4%
Female
48.6%
Male
Demographic split for Documentary movies audience in South Africa
MetricValue
Female51.4%
Male48.6%
Average age37.2
Estimated audience size2,257,600
Fig. 03

Age distribution

Ø 37.2
average years
Age distribution of the Documentary movies audience in South Africa
Age bracketShare%
16-1922%
20-2926%
30-3920%
40-4913%
50+20%
Fig. 04

Worldwide distribution

0.8%

of the worldwide Documentary movies audience comes from South Africa.

Worldwide audience distribution share by country for Documentary movies
CountryShare
United States23.4%
United Kingdom4.8%
India4.3%
Section 04
Brands and entities this audience over-indexes on, vs. the country average.

Audience interests & affinities

The strongest cross-interests of the Documentary movies audience — brands, topics and people combined.

Fig. 07

Top cross-interests, ranked by affinity

Top brand affinities (over-index vs. country average) for Documentary movies audience
#·InterestCategoryAffinity×
01Mondo filmMovies & TV2.26×
02Exploitation filmMovies & TV2.14×
03HyperboleInternet & Social Media1.83×
04Network service providerTopic1.61×
05K-popMusic & Radio1.60×
06Kang DanielMusic & Radio1.60×
07TV1 (Bosnia and Herzegovina)Movies & TV1.60×
08Light stickMusic & Radio1.60×
09The Voice of GermanyMovies & TV1.52×
10Stefanie KloßMusic & Radio1.52×
11Doris GolpashinMovies & TV1.52×
12Ben DolicMusic & Radio1.52×
13FameMakerMovies & TV1.52×
Section 05
Top six personality traits over-indexed by this audience (1.0 = country average).

Personality of the Documentary movies audience

Values above 1.00× are above the country average, values below 1.00× below it.

Fig. 08

Deviation from the national baseline

What stands out
The strongest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Documentary movies audience · What stands out
TraitClusterDeviationScore
SpiritualityBALANCE0.74×
Social Media UsageJOY0.57×
TravellingTHRILL0.55×
1.00× baseline
Rather not
The weakest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Documentary movies audience · Rather not
TraitClusterDeviationScore
Healthy LifestyleBALANCE0.36×
PatriotismCONSERVATISM0.41×
TravellingTHRILL0.55×
1.00× baseline
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How to read this data

Audience size is the estimated number of people in South Africa who actively search for Documentary movies. Affinity is an over-index ratio: 2.0× means the audience is twice as likely to engage with that brand or trait as the country average. Reach is the estimated number of audience members in a region. Regional and brand-affinity tables are sorted from strongest signal to weakest.

About this audience profile

This audience profile is generated by Rascasse from anonymized search-behavior signals across South Africa. For methodology see methodology. Affinity values are over-index ratios vs. the country average (1.0 = baseline). Audience sizes are estimated, not measured.

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