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South Africa: Current account (USD)

Millions of US dollars · 1923–2025 · 99 observations · forecasts to 2031 · CA_USD

2025
−1.82 billionUS dollars

Current account (USD)

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-30B-20B-10B010B20B19401960198020002020South AfricaSouth Africa
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Recent values

Millions of US dollars

YearValue
2031-10,715Forecast
2030-10,224Forecast
2029-9,478Forecast
2028-8,152Forecast
2027-7,011Forecast
2026-9,176Forecast
2025-1,816
2024-6,127
2023-6,074
2022-2,032
202115,529
20206,661
2019-10,136
2018-11,852
2017-9,027
2016-8,668

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

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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