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South Africa: Government expenditure

Millions of local currency · 1911–2025 · 115 observations · forecasts to 2031 · govexp

2025
2.62 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+7.7%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+7.0%a year

Government expenditure

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10M100M1B10B100B1T10T192019401960198020002020South AfricaSouth Africa
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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20313,356,542Forecast
20303,202,390Forecast
20293,067,766Forecast
20282,951,226Forecast
20272,807,611Forecast
20262,719,899Forecast
20252,622,614
20242,435,603
20232,283,569
20222,122,378
20212,031,122
20201,925,591
20191,765,967
20181,617,125
20171,516,345
20161,423,515

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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