South Africa GDP
The total value of everything South Africa produces in a year, at current prices, on a rolling four-quarter basis.
R7.79tn
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Q4 1993 to Q1 2026
Source: FRED series NGDPSAXDCZAQ · IMF International Financial Statistics, quarterly, with the latest quarters from the OECD quarterly national accounts.
South Africa GDP in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In South Africa, GDP rose by R391bn over the year to Q1 2026, from R7.4tn in Q1 2025.
That is the highest reading in a record that starts in Q4 1993.
Over the past five years it has ranged from R5.62tn in Q1 2021 to R7.79tn in Q1 2026.
South Africa is 38th of 62 countries in our GDP by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- IMF via FRED
- Series
- NGDPSAXDCZAQ
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Unit
- $m
- Seasonal adjustment
- Seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Q1 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Data refreshed 2026-10-28. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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