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South Africa: Total consumption (USD)

Millions of US dollars · 1946–2025 · 80 observations · forecasts to 2026 · cons_USD

2025
363 billionUS dollars
Change on 2024
+7.7%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+2.4%a year

Total consumption (USD)

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Recent values

Millions of US dollars

YearValue
2026376,133Forecast
2025362,981
2024337,161
2023318,692
2022334,843
2021340,873
2020281,647
2019325,650
2018337,134
2017313,566
2016267,545

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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