South Africa (ZA) is covered on EconEarth’s interactive globe with economy, market, and country data drawn from the same dataset used in the live app.
Africa's most industrialised economy, with deep capital markets, mines and a sophisticated private sector. Load shedding, logistics failures and high unemployment have wasted a lot of that inheritance. Politics is noisy and crime is a real cost of doing business, yet the corporate core remains more capable than in most emerging peers.
Region: Africa. Population: 62M (rank #24). GDP: $400.0 billion. GDP per capita: $7,503 (2026, IMF). GDP growth: +0.6%. Inflation: +5.9%. Policy rate: 8.25%. Currency: ZAR. Equity market cap: $500.0 billion.