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South Africa: Government consumption (USD)

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

2025
81.1 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
202682,929Forecast
202581,147
202477,382
202373,634
202277,129
202180,677
202069,751
201976,205
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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