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South Africa: Government revenue

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

2025
2.18 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+8.0%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+6.7%a year

Government revenue

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20312,953,363Forecast
20302,816,270Forecast
20292,685,051Forecast
20282,561,480Forecast
20272,437,068Forecast
20262,322,658Forecast
20252,178,662
20242,016,700
20231,890,233
20221,839,527
20211,686,511
20201,390,376
20191,480,651
20181,416,956
20171,312,414
20161,246,222

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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