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South Africa: Current account

Millions of local currency · 1923–2025 · 99 observations · forecasts to 2031 · CA

2025
−35.2 billionlocal currency
In US dollars, 2025
$-1.97 billionUS dollars

Current account

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2031-186,033Forecast
2030-176,159Forecast
2029-162,065Forecast
2028-138,333Forecast
2027-64,388Forecast
2026-47,896Forecast
2025-35,222
2024-47,991
2023-76,423
2022-21,591
2021231,637
2020109,534
2019-146,504
2018-157,092
2017-120,236
2016-127,354

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

South Africa documentation (PDF)

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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