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South Africa: Government consumption (USD)

Millions of US dollars · 1946–2025 · 80 observations · forecasts to 2027 · gcons_USD

2025
80.7 billionUS dollars
Change on 2024
+4.9%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+2.1%a year

Government consumption (USD)

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Recent values

Millions of US dollars

YearValue
202798,417Forecast
202694,098Forecast
202580,744
202476,998
202373,129
202276,388
202180,268
202069,751
201976,204
201878,303
201773,339
201662,547

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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