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South Africa: Household consumption

Millions of local currency · 1946–2025 · 80 observations · forecasts to 2026 · hcons

2025
5.04 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+5.9%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+6.0%a year
In US dollars, 2025
$282 billionUS dollars

Household consumption

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20265,340,349Forecast
20255,038,553
20244,759,906
20234,523,194
20224,222,886
20213,847,339
20203,484,622
20193,605,356
20183,430,761
20173,199,715
20163,011,897

Sources

  • South African Reserve Bank1946–2025
  • Penn World Table1950–2019
  • OECD Economic Outlook1960–2025
  • World Development Indicators1960–2025
  • United Nations1970–2024
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027

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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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