South Africa Trade Openness
South Africa trade openness data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 60.91%.
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South Africa · trade openness 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 60.91% for Trade Openness in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 0.74 percentage points, from 61.65% to 60.91%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (57.79%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 50.76% in 2020 and the high was 65.68% in 2023.