South Africa
General information
Capital: Pretoria, Cape Town, Bloemfontein
Currency unit: Rand
Area: 1,219,090 km²
Total population: 64,007,200
GDP (millions of US dollars): 401,145
GDP per capita, PPP (current international US dollars): 15,456
Production
Agriculture (% of GDP): 3.1 %
Manufacture (% of GDP): 14.2 %
Industry excluding manufacture (% of GDP): 12.8 %
Services (% of GDP): 69.9 %
Trade
Total exports (millions of US dollars): 127,676
Total imports (millions of US dollars): 119,864
Main exported goods (% of total exports):
Gold, non-monetary (excluding gold ores and concentrates) (18.6 %)
Silver, platinum, other metals of the platinum group (10.9 %)
Ores and concentrates of base metals (8.1 %)
Motor vehicles for the transport of persons (6.3 %)
Coal, whether or not pulverized, not agglomerated (4.7 %)
Price competitiveness
This section brings together various indicators related to the price dimension of countries’ competitiveness. These indicators include both measures of external price competitiveness (the price ratio between domestic and foreign goods in international markets) and internal price competitiveness (the price ratio between tradable and non-tradable domestic goods). All these indices are calculated for each country relative to a base year and constructed such that an increase in the index corresponds to a decline in the country’s price competitiveness.
| South Africa | ||
|---|---|---|
| Price competitiveness | - | |
| Nominal Effective Exchange Rate South Africa: 85 | 85 | |
| Real Effective Exchange Rate South Africa: 94 | 94 | |
| Internal Real Exchange Rate South Africa: 76 | 76 |