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South Africa: Nominal GDP

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

2025
7.68 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+3.9%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+5.7%a year
In US dollars, 2025
$429 billionUS dollars

Nominal GDP

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
203110,298,663Forecast
20309,818,818Forecast
20299,359,302Forecast
20288,935,477Forecast
20278,541,703Forecast
20268,159,758Forecast
20257,677,596
20247,386,897
20237,023,995
20226,655,524
20216,220,152
20205,562,761
20195,625,207
20185,363,191
20175,078,190
20164,759,555

Sources

  • GPIH (UC Davis)1911–2005
  • Mitchell1911–2010
  • Fouquin & Hugot (CEPII)1911–2013
  • South African Reserve Bank1946–2025
  • Penn World Table1950–2019
  • IMF Global Debt Database1950–2024
  • WDI (archive)1960–1997
  • OECD Economic Outlook1960–2025
  • World Development Indicators1960–2025
  • FAO1970–2023
  • United Nations1970–2024
  • Bordo1971–1997
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • World Bank Global Economic Monitor1987–2025
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1993–2025
  • African Development Bank1995–2019
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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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