GDP: purchasing power parity - $296.1 billion (1999 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 3.1% (2002), 0.6% (1999 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $6,900 (1999 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
5%
industry:
35%
services:
60% (1999 est.)
Population below poverty line: NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 1.4% highest 10%: 47.3% (1993)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 12.5% (2002). 5.5% (1999 est.)
Labour force: 15 million economically active (1997)
Labour force - by occupation: agriculture 30%, industry 25%, services 45% (1999 est.)
Unemployment rate: 30% (1999 est.)
Budget:
revenues:
$30.5 billion
expenditures:
$38 billion, including capital expenditures of $2.6 billion (FY94/95 est.)
Industries: Mining (world's largest producer of platinum, gold, chromium), automobile assembly, metalworking, machinery, textile, iron and steel, chemicals, fertilizer, foodstuffs
Industrial production growth rate: -5% (1998 est.)
Electricity - production: 192.015 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
92.09%
hydroelectric:
0.83%
nuclear:
7.08%
other:
0% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 174.486 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - exports: 4.093 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - imports: 5 million kWh (1998)
Agriculture - products: maize, wheat, sugarcane, fruits, vegetables; beef, poultry, mutton, wool, dairy products
Exports: $28 billion (f.o.b., 1999 est.)
Exports - commodities: gold, diamonds, other metals and minerals, machinery and equipment
Exports - partners: UK, Italy, Japan, US, Germany (1997)
Imports: $26 billion (f.o.b., 1999 est.)
Imports - commodities: machinery, foodstuffs and equipment, chemicals, petroleum products, scientific instruments
Imports - partners: Germany, US, UK, Japan
Debt - external: $25.7 billion (1998 est.)
Economic aid - recipient: $676.3 million
Currency: 1 rand (R) = 100 cents
Exchange rates: Rand (R) per US$1 - 8.34 (February 2003), 6.12439 (January 2000), 6.10948 (1999), 5.52828 (1998), 4.60796 (1997), 4.29935 (1996), 3.62709 (1995)
Fiscal year: 1 April - 31 March
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