The main bars use the reconciled general government account for Apr 1, 2023 to Mar 31, 2024. Each bar is a share of its own revenue or expenditure total.
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Country budget brief · Period ending 2024
South Africa
Apr 1, 2023 to Mar 31, 2024 · GFSM 2014 revenue classification
RevenueZAR 2.56T
ExpenditureZAR 2.91T
DeficitZAR 356.18B
Account sourceInternational Monetary FundStatement of operations
Country report
Integrated fiscal view
How government raises and spends money
Money in
ZAR 2.56TRevenue
Money out
ZAR 2.91TExpenditure
Annual-account deficitZAR 356.18BGeneral government · Apr 1, 2023 to Mar 31, 2024
Comparable deficit5.7%of GDP · General government · 2024
Gross debt76.0%of GDP · General government · 2024
How to read the chart
No harmonized OECD tax composition is currently available, so the chart does not infer a tax mix.
No separate reconciled federal expenditure layer is currently available for this report.
Evidence layers
Government annual accountCore evidence layer
Account boundary: This layer covers general government for Apr 1, 2023 to Mar 31, 2024. It includes central government, state government, social security funds. It is independently sourced and is not used in the international ranking on the all-country page.
Revenue by Source
9 categories · GFSM 2014 revenue classificationExpenditure Breakdown
10 categories · COFOG functionsCoverage & methodology
Comparable account
- Reference year
- 2024
- Reporting convention
- January/December
- Institutional scope
- General government
- Included units
- Central Government, State Government, Social Security Funds
Government annual account
- Period
- Apr 1, 2023 to Mar 31, 2024
- Source reference
- 2023
- Scope
- General government
- Status
- provisional
- Unit
- billions of domestic currency
Sources by section:
Comparable account:
- International Monetary Fund · World Economic Outlook Database, April 2026
Government annual account:
- International Monetary Fund · urn:sdmx:org.sdmx.infomodel.datastructure.Dataflow=IMF.STA:GFS_SOO(12.0.0)
- International Monetary Fund · urn:sdmx:org.sdmx.infomodel.datastructure.Dataflow=IMF.STA:GFS_COFOG(11.0.0)
Assembly rule: The integrated chart uses the government annual account as its core. OECD tax composition and federal expenditure appear as visually embedded but separately labelled lenses; different periods and scopes are never added together.
Interpretation: Largest reported category means the largest item in the named source classification. It does not imply that categories from different classifications, periods, or institutional scopes are directly interchangeable.
Methodology: Annual-account records are final or provisional observations for one annual period ending in 2024. Published categories reconcile to their totals, and revenue minus expenditure reconciles to the displayed balance. National dataset generated 9/19/2026.