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South Africa: General government revenue (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1913–2025 · 113 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govrev_GDP

2025
28.4%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+1.1 pointsfrom 27.3%
Average, 2016–2025
26.7%10 years
Record high and low
28.4% (2025)low 9.23% (1964)

General government revenue (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203128.7Forecast
203028.7Forecast
202928.7Forecast
202828.7Forecast
202728.5Forecast
202628.5Forecast
202528.4
202427.3
202326.9
202227.6
202127.1
202025.0
201926.3
201826.4
201725.8
201626.2

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1913–2023
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1977–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2000–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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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