Country statistical profile: South Africa 2023

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‌	Country statistical profile: South Africa 2023
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‌	‌‌	‌Unit‌	‌2015‌	‌2016‌	‌2017‌	‌2018‌	‌2019‌	‌2020‌	‌2021‌	‌2022‌
‌	Production and income
‌	GDP per capita	USD current PPPs	13 942	14 006	14 134	14 545	14 655	13 717	14 813	15 953
‌	Gross national income (GNI) per capita	USD current PPPs	13 623	13 647	13 742	14 139	14 289	13 488	14 530	15 620
‌	Household disposable income per capita	Annual growth %	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	Economic growth
‌	Real GDP growth	Annual growth %	1.3	0.7	1.2	1.6	0.3	-6.0	4.7	1.9
‌	Net saving rate in household disposable income	%	-1.1	-0.9	-0.1	-0.3	-0.6	0.8	1.1	0.2
‌	Gross fixed capital formation	Annual growth %	1.3	-1.9	-2.0	-1.2	-1.7	-14.6	0.6	4.8
‌	Economic structure: share of real value added
‌	Agriculture, forestry, fishing	%	2.5	2.7	2.8	2.5	2.2	2.9	2.8	3.2
‌	Industry including energy	%	22.5	22.7	22.6	22.8	23.0	23.1	24.8	25.0
‌	Construction	%	3.9	3.7	3.5	3.4	3.3	2.7	2.5	2.5
‌	Trade, repairs, transport, accomm., food services	%	14.0	13.9	13.8	13.9	13.9	13.1	13.5	13.6
‌	Information, communication	%	9.0	8.8	8.7	8.4	8.3	7.4	7.2	7.6
‌	Finance and insurance	%	15.8	15.8	15.9	16.2	16.5	16.8	16.0	15.7
‌	Real estate	%	7.4	7.3	7.3	7.4	7.4	7.5	7.5	7.6
‌	Professional, scientific, support services	%	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	Public admin., defence, education, health, social work	%	8.7	8.8	8.7	8.9	8.9	9.3	8.7	8.6
‌	Other services (ISIC Rev.4 R - U)	%	16.4	16.4	16.7	16.6	16.7	17.3	17.0	16.3
‌	Government deficits and debt
‌	Government deficit	% of GDP	-3.7	-4.0	-4.3	-3.7	-5.1	-10.1	-6.4	-4.8
‌	General government debt	% of GDP	55.8	60.6	61.5	63.5	68.6	80.8	80.4	74.9
‌	General government revenues	% of GDP	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	General government expenditures	% of GDP	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	Expenditure
‌	Government/compulsory expenditure on health	% of GDP	3.8	3.8	3.7	3.8	3.9	4.3	..	..
‌	Voluntary expenditure on health	% of GDP	4.3	4.3	4.2	4.3	4.3	4.2	..	..
‌	Public social expenditure	% of GDP	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	Private social expenditure	% of GDP	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	Public pension expenditure	% of GDP	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	Private pension expenditure	% of GDP	4.6	5.0	4.5	4.3	4.3	4.7	..	..
‌	Official Development Assistance - grant equivalent	% of GNI	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	Official Development Assistance - flows basis	% of GNI	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	Taxes
‌	Total tax revenue	% of GDP	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	Tax on personal income	% of GDP	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	Tax on corporate profits	% of GDP	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	Taxes on goods and services	% of GDP	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	Taxes on the average worker	% of labour cost	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	Trade
‌	Imports of goods and services	% of GDP	29.0	27.7	26.2	27.0	26.7	23.2	25.0	31.5
‌	Exports of goods and services	% of GDP	27.7	28.2	27.3	27.5	27.2	27.5	31.1	33.5
‌	Goods trade balance: exports minus imports of goods	Bln USD	-4.0	1.1	5.8	1.1	1.9	16.6	30.4	12.1
‌	Imports of goods	Bln USD	85.7	75.2	83.4	93.2	88.1	68.9	93.3	111.6
‌	Exports of goods	Bln USD	81.7	76.3	89.3	94.2	90.0	85.5	123.7	123.8
‌	Service trade balance: exports minus imports of services	Bln USD	-0.2	-0.3	-0.1	0.0	-0.6	-2.7	-4.5	-5.5
‌	Imports of services	Bln USD	15.7	15.2	16.6	17.0	16.5	11.2	13.6	18.1
‌	Exports of services	Bln USD	15.5	14.9	16.5	17.0	15.9	8.5	9.1	12.6
‌	Current account balance of payments	% of GDP	-4.4	-2.7	-2.5	-3.0	-2.5	1.8	3.6	-0.6
‌	Foreign direct investment (FDI)
‌	Outward FDI stocks	Mln USD	154 683	175 635	272 548	246 170	214 999	250 964	223 830	..
‌	Inward FDI stocks	Mln USD	126 755	135 453	156 103	138 410	145 247	133 127	174 783	..
‌	Inflows of foreign direct investment	Mln USD	1 729	2 235	2 007	5 447	5 125	3 062	40 896	8 862
‌	Outflows of foreign direct investment	Mln USD	5 744	4 474	7 366	4 074	3 147	-1 951	19	2 453
‌	Prices and interest rates
‌	Inflation rate: all items	Annual growth %	4.5	6.6	5.2	4.5	4.1	3.2	4.6	7.0
‌	Inflation rate: all items non food non energy	Annual growth %	5.3	5.5	4.6	4.2	4.1	3.4	3.1	4.6
‌	Inflation rate: food	Annual growth %	5.0	11.6	6.8	3.1	3.5	4.4	6.1	9.3
‌	Inflation rate: energy	Annual growth %	-2.3	5.2	6.5	10.3	5.2	-0.1	14.3	23.6
‌	Producer Price Indices (PPI): manufacturing	Annual growth %	3.6	7.1	4.9	5.4	4.6	2.5	7.1	14.4
‌	Long-term interest rates	%	8.16	9.02	9.05	9.13	9.07	10.07	9.79	10.74
‌	Purchasing power and exchange rates
‌	Purchasing power parities	ZAR per USD	5.83	6.16	6.43	6.51	6.69	6.99	7.13	6.98
‌	Exchange rates	ZAR per USD	12.76	14.71	13.32	13.23	14.45	16.46	14.78	16.36
‌	Indices of price levels	OECD=100	52	48	56	56	55	50	56	53
‌	Energy supply and prices
‌	Total primary energy supply (TPES)	Mtoe	128.8	133.5	133.0	129.3	128.8	124.6	..	..
‌	TPES per unit of GDP at 2000 prices and PPPs	Toe per '000 USD	0.17	0.18	0.17	0.17	0.16	0.17	..	..
‌	Renewable energy	Ktoe	6 683.0	6 810.6	7 409.9	7 204.1	7 487.5	7 738.7	..	..
‌	Crude oil import prices	USD per barrel	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
‌	Households with access to computers	%	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	Households with access to internet	%	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	Environment
‌	Water abstactions	Mln m3	18 554	18 981	19 265	19 540	19 793	20 344	20 894	..
‌	National fish landings in domestic ports	'000 tonnes	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	National fish landings in foreign ports	'000 tonnes	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	Aquaculture	'000 tonnes	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	Municipal waste total	'000 tonnes	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	Municipal waste total per capita	Kg	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	CO2emissions from fuel combustion	Mln tonnes	420	420	430	434	441	388	..	..
‌	Education
‌	Tertiary attainment in population aged 25-64	%	13	14	15	15	16	16	..	..
‌	Expenditure per student: primary, 2010 prices	USD constant PPPs	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	Expenditure per student: secondary, 2010 prices	USD constant PPPs	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	Expenditure per student: tertiary, 2010 prices	USD constant PPPs	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	Youths 15-19 not in education nor employment	%	13.8	13.6	13.8	13.8	13.4	12.6	11.5	..
‌	Youths 20-24 not in education nor employment	%	47.2	48.6	48.1	48.8	51.0	52.0	53.8	..
‌	Employment
‌	Employment rate in population aged 15-24	%	13.3	12.3	12.5	11.9	11.0	8.5	7.6	9.9
‌	Employment rate in population aged 25-54	%	58.3	57.5	57.4	57.3	56.2	51.2	49.2	50.7
‌	Employment rate in population aged 55-64	%	40.0	39.5	41.1	40.9	40.1	37.2	35.6	34.5
‌	Incidence of part-time employment	%	8.8	9.0	9.0	9.1	9.3	10.3	10.2	10.6
‌	Self-employment rate: total employment	%	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	Self-employment rate: male employment	%	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	Self-employment rate: female employment	%	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	Unemployment
‌	Unemployment rate: total labour force	%	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	Unemployment rate: male labour force	%	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	Unemployment rate: female labour force	%	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	Long-term unemployment: total unemployed	%	57.0	58.8	60.4	62.1	64.8	61.3	71.5	70.7
‌	Labour compensation and hours worked
‌	Labour compensation per unit labour input, total economy	Annual growth %	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	Average time worked per person in employment	Hours per year	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	Research and Development (R&D)
‌	Gross domestic expenditure on R&D	Mln USD	5 551	5 715	5 891	5 384	4 853	..	..	..
‌	Researchers: full-time equivalent	Per '000 employed	1.7	1.8	1.8	1.8	1.7	..	..	..
‌	Population
‌	Total population	'000 persons	55 204	56 020	56 840	57 673	58 533	59 353	59 965	..
‌	Total fertitity rates	Children	2.4	2.3	2.3	2.4	2.5	2.4	2.4	..
‌	Youth population aged less than 15	% of population	29.1	29.0	28.9	28.8	28.7	28.5	28.3	..
‌	Elderly population aged 65 and over	% of population	5.6	5.7	5.8	5.9	6.0	6.1	6.1	..
‌	International migration
‌	Foreign-born population	% of population	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	Foreign population	% of population	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	Unemployment rate in population of native-born men	% of labour force	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	Unemployment rate in population of foreign-born men	% of labour force	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	Unemployment rate in population of native-born women	% of labour force	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	Unemployment rate in population of foreign-born women	% of labour force	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	Health
‌	Life expectancy at birth	Years	63.4	64.0	64.7	65.4	65.7	66.2	65.3	62.3
‌	Life expectancy at birth: men	Years	60.1	60.7	61.3	62.0	62.2	62.8	62.2	59.5
‌	Life expectancy at birth: women	Years	66.3	66.8	67.8	68.4	68.7	69.1	68.0	65.0
‌	Infant mortality	Per '000	29.4	28.9	28.3	27.8	27.3	26.9	26.4	..
‌	Overweight or obese, % of population aged 15 and over	Measured	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	Suicide Rates	Per 100 000 persons	1.0	0.8	0.7	0.6	..	..	..	..
‌	Transport
‌	Goods transport	Mln tonne-km	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	Passenger transport	Mln passenger-km	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
‌	Road Fatalities	Per mln inhabitants	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
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