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South Africa: Household consumption (USD)

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

2025
282 billionUS dollars
Change on 2024
+8.5%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+2.5%a year

Household consumption (USD)

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Recent values

Millions of US dollars

YearValue
2026293,224Forecast
2025281,826
2024259,778
2023245,058
2022257,714
2021260,196
2020211,896
2019249,446
2018258,831
2017240,227
2016204,998

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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