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Current account balance (% of GDP) — South Africa: -0.4228 (2025)
World Bank indicator reports South Africa's current account balance as -0.4228% of GDP for 2025. The dataset was updated 2026-07-13.
Categories: economy-and-trade
Generated scores
Scores are based on the cited reporting and use a 1–10 scale. Read the methodology.
- Confidence
- 6/10
- Geographic reach
- 4/10
- Global importance
- 4/10
- Impact magnitude
- 2/10
- Positivity
- 4/10
- Urgency
- 1/10
Why it matters
A negative value indicates a current-account deficit for South Africa in 2025.

