South Africa Government Expense
South Africa government expense data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 33.42%.
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South Africa · government expense data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
South Africa recorded 33.42% for Government Expense in 2022, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2021, the indicator decreased by 1.18 percentage points, from 34.61% to 33.42%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (33.68%).
Across the five latest available observations (2018–2022), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 31.26% in 2013 and the high was 37.84% in 2020.