Official data
South Africa: current account by year, 2000–2025
Current account balance, % of GDP
Latest year, 2025: -0.5%
Opens a new analysis with this question: Compare the current account balance since 2000 across South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, and Egypt.
Method
Official annual series (2000–2025), read directly from the source without adjustments and plotted as published.
- Read. Reads series BCA_NGDPD directly as published by the source.
- Period. Keeps one value per year, 2000 to 2025.
- Chart. Draws each year as a bar around zero.
- The most recent years can be IMF estimates.
- Source
- International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- Dataset
- World Economic Outlook (October 2026)
- Series code
- BCA_NGDPD
Read from the Belo Lake on November 8, 2026.
Data
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2025 | -0.5 |
| 2024 | -0.7 |
| 2023 | -1.1 |
| 2022 | -0.3 |
| 2021 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 2 |
| 2019 | -2.6 |
| 2018 | -2.9 |
| 2017 | -2.4 |
| 2016 | -2.7 |
| 2015 | -4.3 |
| 2014 | -4.8 |
| 2013 | -5.3 |
| 2012 | -4.7 |
| 2011 | -2 |
| 2010 | -1.3 |
| 2009 | -2.4 |
| 2008 | -5 |
| 2007 | -4.8 |
| 2006 | -4 |
| 2005 | -2.8 |
| 2004 | -2.5 |
| 2003 | -0.7 |
| 2002 | 0.8 |
| 2001 | 0.2 |
| 2000 | -0.1 |