Official data
South Africa: GDP per capita by year, 2000–2025
GDP per capita at current prices, US dollars
Latest year, 2025: $6,769
Opens a new analysis with this question: Compare GDP per capita 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 NGDPDPC directly as published by the source.
- Period. Keeps one value per year, 2000 to 2025.
- Chart. Draws the series as a line and marks the latest year.
- The most recent years can be IMF estimates.
- Source
- International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- Dataset
- World Economic Outlook (October 2026)
- Series code
- NGDPDPC
Read from the Belo Lake on November 8, 2026.
Data
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 6,769.16 |
| 2024 | 6,364.66 |
| 2023 | 6,132.74 |
| 2022 | 6,640.43 |
| 2021 | 6,923.88 |
| 2020 | 5,630.98 |
| 2019 | 6,582.76 |
| 2018 | 6,956.41 |
| 2017 | 6,647.09 |
| 2016 | 5,721.19 |
| 2015 | 6,222.53 |
| 2014 | 6,952.31 |
| 2013 | 7,431.91 |
| 2012 | 8,185.72 |
| 2011 | 8,784.65 |
| 2010 | 8,118.17 |
| 2009 | 6,538.17 |
| 2008 | 6,337.93 |
| 2007 | 6,752.26 |
| 2006 | 6,250.88 |
| 2005 | 6,007.98 |
| 2004 | 5,392.86 |
| 2003 | 4,191.4 |
| 2002 | 2,778.11 |
| 2001 | 2,974.05 |
| 2000 | 3,376.8 |