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South Africa: Total consumption

Millions of local currency · 1946–2025 · 80 observations · forecasts to 2026 · cons

2025
6.49 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+5.0%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+5.9%a year
In US dollars, 2025
$363 billionUS dollars

Total consumption

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20266,850,315Forecast
20256,489,450
20246,177,780
20235,882,306
20225,486,721
20215,040,256
20204,631,682
20194,706,776
20184,468,658
20174,176,560
20163,930,851

Sources

  • South African Reserve Bank1946–2025
  • Penn World Table1950–2019
  • WDI (archive)1960–1997
  • OECD Economic Outlook1960–2025
  • World Development Indicators1960–2025
  • United Nations1970–2024
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1993–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027

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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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