finance.foundation / Countries / South Africa
Jurisdiction · ZA · ZAR
South Africa
- ISO code
- ZA
- Currency
- ZAR
- Monetary authority
- South African Reserve Bank
- GDP
- $0.43tn (2025, World Bank)
- Real GDP growth
- 1.1% (2025, World Bank)
- Inflation (CPI)
- 3.2% (2025, World Bank)
- Population
- 64.7m (2025, World Bank)
- Listed domestic companies
- 212 (2025, World Bank)
- Listed market cap
- 327% of GDP (2025, World Bank)
- Credit to private sector
- 89% of GDP (2024, World Bank)
Annual indicators from World Bank Open Data (CC BY 4.0), each shown with its observation year — refreshed daily, but the underlying series are annual and only move when the World Bank publishes.
Current readings · refreshed every 3 hours
7.25% South Africa repo rate · 2026-09-01 · BIS
These are South Africa’s own readings, each on the observation date shown. They are a different kind of figure from the World Bank series above, which are annual and only move when the World Bank publishes.
Approximate reference values from public sources · seed-0.7 · marketcap-1 · 2026-08-30 · not real-time. See data & methodology.
# this page as data
GET https://finance.foundation/api/v1/countries/south-africa
JSONCSV No key, CORS enabled — paste any of these straight into a notebook.
Code to fetch it
curl
curl -s https://finance.foundation/api/v1/countries/south-africa
Python
import requests
r = requests.get("https://finance.foundation/api/v1/countries/south-africa", timeout=30)
r.raise_for_status()
data = r.json()
JavaScript
const r = await fetch("https://finance.foundation/api/v1/countries/south-africa");
if (!r.ok) throw new Error(r.status);
const data = await r.json();
pandas
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv("https://finance.foundation/api/v1/countries/south-africa.csv")