Rascasse Audience Intelligence

Romance novels Audience in South Africa

A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about Romance novels in South Africa — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. Romance novels has an estimated audience of 1,179,886 people in South Africa.

#3among Literary genre in South Africa
#445among Topic in South Africa
#14in Literature

Romance novels has an estimated audience of 1,179,886 people in South Africa. 60.0% are female, 40.0% are male, average age 38.9.

Category: Literature · Type: Topic · Subtype: Literary 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 Romance novels profile in South Africa.

Audience size
1.2M
in South Africa
Gender
60.0%
40.0% male
Age
38.9
average years
Country rank
#630
Topic in South Africa
Fig. 01

Search interest · 12-month trend

-31%
vs. last year
JanMarMayJulSepNov
Monthly searches · Source: Rascasse Audience Intelligence
Section 02

Demographics of Romance novels fans

60.0% are female, 40.0% are male, average age 38.9.

Fig. 02

Gender split

60.0%
Female
40.0%
Male
Demographic split for Romance novels audience in South Africa
MetricValue
Female60.0%
Male40.0%
Average age38.9
Estimated audience size1,179,886
Fig. 03

Age distribution

Ø 38.9
average years
Age distribution of the Romance novels audience in South Africa
Age bracketShare%
16-1918%
20-2924%
30-3920%
40-4914%
50+23%
Fig. 04

Worldwide distribution

0.7%

of the worldwide Romance novels audience comes from South Africa.

Worldwide audience distribution share by country for Romance novels
CountryShare
United States17.6%
China4.9%
India4.5%
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How to read this data

Audience size is the estimated number of people in South Africa who actively search for Romance novels. 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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