South Africa Foreign Reserves
South Africa foreign reserves data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 76.02 billion.
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Interpretation
South Africa recorded 76.02 billion for Foreign Reserves in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 10.59 billion (16.2%), from 65.43 billion to 76.02 billion.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (58.17 billion).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly upward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 47.18 billion in 2016 and the high was 76.02 billion in 2025.