South Africa vs Zimbabwe: Gross Domestic Product — Value US$
Gross Domestic Product — Value US$ over time
- South Africa
- Zimbabwe
How they compare
South Africa currently reports 397,193 million USD against 369,182 million USD in Zimbabwe, a difference of 28,011 million USD.
That makes South Africa's figure about 1.1 times Zimbabwe's.
Across all 55 years both countries report, South Africa has been ahead every year.
South Africa ranks 38th and Zimbabwe ranks 41st of 203 countries.
South Africa has averaged higher in every one of the 6 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | South Africa | Zimbabwe | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 34,973 million USD | 4,544 million USD | 30,429 million USD | South Africa |
| 1980s | 82,877 million USD | 9,991 million USD | 72,885 million USD | South Africa |
| 1990s | 149,793 million USD | 11,475 million USD | 138,318 million USD | South Africa |
| 2000s | 244,078 million USD | 7,797 million USD | 236,282 million USD | South Africa |
| 2010s | 393,734 million USD | 19,064 million USD | 374,670 million USD | South Africa |
| 2020s | 387,731 million USD | 94,350 million USD | 293,381 million USD | South Africa |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher gross domestic product — value us$, South Africa or Zimbabwe?
- South Africa, at 397,193 million USD against 369,182 million USD in Zimbabwe as of 2024.
- What is the difference in gross domestic product — value us$ between South Africa and Zimbabwe?
- 28,011 million USD, with South Africa ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for South Africa and Zimbabwe?
- 55 years are reported by both, from 1970 to 2024.
- How do South Africa and Zimbabwe rank globally for gross domestic product — value us$?
- South Africa ranks 38th and Zimbabwe ranks 41st of 203 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Gross Domestic Product — Value US$. 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).