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South Africa: Central government expenditure

Millions of local currency · 1911–2025 · 115 observations · cgovexp

2025
2.53 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+6.4%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+6.1%a year

Central government expenditure

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10M100M1B10B100B1T10T192019401960198020002020South AfricaSouth Africa
Local currency

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20252,530,357
20242,377,386
20232,320,502
20222,194,814
20212,061,778
20201,956,776
20191,835,539
20181,675,484
20171,590,274
20161,442,595

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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