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South Africa: Real GDP

Millions of local currency · 1804–2025 · 195 observations · forecasts to 2031 · rGDP

2025
4.73 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+1.1%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+0.7%a year
In US dollars, 2025
$370 billionUS dollars

Real GDP

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20315,214,867Forecast
20305,122,273Forecast
20295,030,219Forecast
20284,947,595Forecast
20274,872,126Forecast
20264,811,975Forecast
20254,729,938
20244,677,798
20234,632,433
20224,600,300
20214,514,016
20204,300,905
20194,583,667
20184,571,784
20174,501,702
20164,450,171

Sources

  • Maddison Project Database1804–2022
  • Broadberry & Gardner1885–2008
  • Barro & Ursúa1911–2009
  • Mitchell1946–2010
  • South African Reserve Bank1946–2025
  • WDI (archive)1960–1997
  • OECD Economic Outlook1960–2025
  • World Development Indicators1960–2025
  • FAO1970–2023
  • United Nations1970–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • World Bank Global Economic Monitor1987–2025
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1993–2025
  • 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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