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South Africa: Household consumption (USD)

Millions of US dollars · 1946–2025 · 80 observations · forecasts to 2027 · hcons_USD

2025
281 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
2027341,355Forecast
2026324,913Forecast
2025281,398
2024259,384
2023244,765
2022258,025
2021259,518
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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