South Africa Current Account Balance
South Africa current account balance data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: -0.42%.
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South Africa · current account balance data as percent of GDP.
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Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
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Interpretation
South Africa recorded -0.42% for Current Account Balance in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.22 percentage points, from -0.64% to -0.42%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (-0.73%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was -3.00% in 2018 and the high was 3.77% in 2021.