South Africa GDP Growth Rate
How much the economy grew or shrank compared with the previous three months, in real (inflation-adjusted) terms.
−0.2%
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Q2 1993 to Q2 2026
Source: FRED series NGDPRSAXDCZAQ · IMF International Financial Statistics, quarter-on-quarter growth derived from the real (constant-price, seasonally adjusted) GDP level, not the nominal one. The latest quarters come from the OECD quarterly national accounts.
South Africa GDP Growth Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In South Africa, the GDP growth rate fell by 1.0pp over the year to Q2 2026, from 0.8% in Q2 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from −1.7% in Q3 2021 to 1.9% in Q3 2022.
Its average since Q2 1993 is 0.6%, and the latest reading is below that.
South Africa is 42nd of 45 countries in our GDP Growth Rate by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- IMF via FRED
- Series
- NGDPRSAXDCZAQ
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Q2 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Data refreshed 2026-11-06. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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