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South Africa: Gross fixed capital formation

Millions of local currency · 1946–2025 · 80 observations · forecasts to 2027 · finv

2025
1.06 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
−0.7%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+2.9%a year
In US dollars, 2025
$59.3 billionUS dollars

Gross fixed capital formation

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20271,179,806Forecast
20261,106,390Forecast
20251,060,599
20241,067,704
20231,051,057
2022945,487
2021813,710
2020767,570
2019870,163
2018853,936
2017832,763
2016830,138

Sources

  • South African Reserve Bank1946–2025
  • Mitchell1950–2010
  • WDI (archive)1960–1997
  • OECD Economic Outlook1960–2025
  • World Development Indicators1960–2025
  • FAO1970–2023
  • 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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