South Africa Gross Capital Formation
South Africa gross capital formation data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 14.07%.
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South Africa · gross capital formation data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
South Africa recorded 14.07% for Gross Capital Formation in 2024, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2023, the indicator decreased by 1.32 percentage points, from 15.39% to 14.07%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (15.45%).
Across the five latest available observations (2020–2024), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 12.35% in 2020 and the high was 18.63% in 2015.