Malaysia vs South Africa: Gross Domestic Product — Value US$
Gross Domestic Product — Value US$ over time
- Malaysia
- South Africa
How they compare
Malaysia currently reports 421,912 million USD against 397,193 million USD in South Africa, a difference of 24,719 million USD.
That makes Malaysia's figure about 1.1 times South Africa's.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 55 shared years of data; in 1970 it was South Africa ahead.
Malaysia ranks 35th and South Africa ranks 38th of 203 countries.
Across the 6 decades both report, Malaysia averaged higher in 1 and South Africa in 5.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Malaysia | South Africa | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 10,140 million USD | 34,973 million USD | 24,833 million USD | South Africa |
| 1980s | 30,582 million USD | 82,877 million USD | 52,295 million USD | South Africa |
| 1990s | 73,486 million USD | 149,793 million USD | 76,307 million USD | South Africa |
| 2000s | 145,522 million USD | 244,078 million USD | 98,557 million USD | South Africa |
| 2010s | 317,444 million USD | 393,734 million USD | 76,290 million USD | South Africa |
| 2020s | 387,975 million USD | 387,731 million USD | 244.2 million USD | Malaysia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher gross domestic product — value us$, Malaysia or South Africa?
- Malaysia, at 421,912 million USD against 397,193 million USD in South Africa as of 2024.
- What is the difference in gross domestic product — value us$ between Malaysia and South Africa?
- 24,719 million USD, with Malaysia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Malaysia and South Africa?
- 55 years are reported by both, from 1970 to 2024.
- How do Malaysia and South Africa rank globally for gross domestic product — value us$?
- Malaysia ranks 35th and South Africa ranks 38th of 203 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Gross Domestic Product — Value US$. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
The FAOSTAT Macro Indicators database provides a selection of country-level macro indicators relating to total economy (Gross Domestic Product, Gross Fixed Capital Formation); agriculture activity; agriculture, forestry and fishing activity; total manufacturing activity; manufacturing of food products and beverages activity; manufacturing activity of tobacco products; and manufacturing activity of food, beverage and tobacco products.It releases time series for a selection of National Accounts variables, including gross domestic product, gross fixed capital formation, industry-level value added and gross output. The database also proposes additional indicators such as gross domestic product per capita, year-on-year growth rates and measures of industry contribution to gross domestic product. All data relating to Gross Domestic Product, Gross Fixed Capital Formation, agriculture, forestry and fishing activity, and to total manufacturing activity originates from the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) National Accounts Estimates of Main Aggregates database, which consists of a complete and consistent set of time series of the main National Accounts aggregates of all UN Members States and other territories in the world for which National Accounts information is available. The UNSD database's content is based on the countries' official National Accounts data reported to UNSD through the annual National Accounts Questionnaire, supplemented with data estimates for any years and countries with incomplete or inconsistent information (See http://unstats.un.org/unsd/snaama/Introduction.asp). Data series relating to the sub-industry Agriculture activity are obtained from the UNSD national accounts Official Country Data databases while series on the Manufacturing activity of food and beverages products, manufacturing activity of tobacco products and manufacturing activity of food, beverages and tobacco products originates from the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) INDSTAT2 database. In order to ensure that sub-industry series are consistent in levels with National Accounts based series, which is needed to support comparability across industries (agriculture vs. agro-industry and sub-industries), UNIDO originating series are rescaled on UNSD National Accounts Estimates of Main Aggregates data series (See Section 17.5 for a more detailed description of the data processing steps).