South Africa Inflation
South Africa inflation data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 3.21%.
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South Africa · inflation data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
South Africa recorded 3.21% for Inflation in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 1.16 percentage points, from 4.36% to 3.21%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (4.89%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 3.21% in 2025 and the high was 7.04% in 2022.