South Africa's taxes less subsidies on products (current LCU) was 765.44 billion in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 74.35% from 439.04 billion in 2015 (5.72% a year on average, compounded).
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 765.44 billion | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 526.89 billion | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 439.04 billion | 2015 |
| Highest | 765.44 billion | 2025 |
| Lowest | 262 million | 1961 |
| Average since 2016 | 608.3 billion | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 270 million |
What the numbers say
In 2025, South Africa's taxes less subsidies on products (current LCU) rose 5.3% on 2024 (from 726.87 billion to 765.44 billion).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +10.1% and a typical year strayed about 6.1% from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.8 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 36% in 1982 and the biggest yearly fall was 7.1% in 2020. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 the straight-line trend is upward, about 34.36 billion a year. A straight line explains 95% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
A straight-line projection, tested first
Extending that straight line gives about 859.9 billion for 2028. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2023 to 2025 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was 26.22 billion, against 60.25 billion for assuming no change. Treat it as a continuation of the recent pattern, not a forecast of events: it cannot see a recession, a policy change or a revision to the data.
See how a linear trend forecast works and the guide on forecasting without fooling yourself.
How it compares
In 2025, South Africa had the 44th highest value of the 150 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
Closest to South Africa in the 2025 ranking
What this measures
Taxes less subsidies on products are taxes payable per unit of a good or service. This indicator is expressed in current prices, meaning no adjustment has been made to account for price changes over time. This series is expressed in local currency units.
All 66 values
| Year | Taxes less subsidies on products (current LCU) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 765,437,000,000 |
| 2024 | 726,870,000,000 |
| 2023 | 716,456,000,000 |
| 2022 | 676,007,000,000 |
| 2021 | 614,291,000,000 |
| 2020 | 526,885,000,000 |
| 2019 | 567,041,000,000 |
| 2018 | 533,587,000,000 |
| 2017 | 485,740,000,000 |
| 2016 | 470,714,000,000 |
Taxes less subsidies on products (current LCU) in nearby economies
- Angola — 1.11 trillion (2025)
- Benin — 1.36 trillion (2025)
- Botswana — 15.36 billion (2025)
- Burkina Faso — 1.36 trillion (2025)
- Burundi — 1.63 trillion (2025)
- Cabo Verde — 48.82 billion (2025)
- Cameroon — 2.44 trillion (2025)
- Central African Republic — 209.12 billion (2025)
- Chad — 380.05 billion (2025)
- Comoros
More economic policy & debt data for South Africa
- Trade in services (% of GDP) — 9.32% (2025)
- Communications, computer, etc. (% of service imports, BoP) — 44.9% (2025)
- Primary income payments (BoP, current US$) — US$20.32 billion (2025)
- Imports of goods and services (current US$, BoP) — US$126.24 billion (2025)
- Insurance and financial services (% of service imports, BoP) — 5.58% (2025)
- Goods imports (current US$, BoP) — US$104.47 billion (2025)
- Service imports (current US$, BoP) — US$21.77 billion (2025)
- Charges for the use of intellectual property, payments (BoP, current US$) — US$1.74 billion (2025)
- Imports of goods, services and primary income (current US$, BoP)
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Questions people ask
- What is South Africa's taxes less subsidies on products (current LCU)?
- 765.44 billion in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1960?
- It is up 283,395% from 270 million in 1960 (13.01% a year on average, compounded). The highest value was 765.44 billion in 2025 and the lowest 262 million in 1961.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator NY.TAX.NIND.CN, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks; National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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