GDP per capita, PPP (current international $) in South Africa was reported at 15457 USD in 2024, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. South Africa - GDP per capita, PPP (current international $) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on July of 2025.

Johannesburg was the wealthiest city in Africa as of 2021. South Africa's biggest city held *** billion U.S. dollars in private wealth, while Cape Town followed with *** billion U.S. dollars. The country led the ranking of wealthiest nations in Africa. The wealth value referred to assets such as cash, properties, and business interests held by individuals living in each country, less liabilities. Moreover, government funds were excluded.

Abstract

The Cross Country Mean Firm Size data was created by Andrew Kerr of the University of Cape Town as part of a project entitled “Firm size and Economic Growth in sub-Saharan Africa”, which was funded by the Structural Transformation and Economic Growth (STEG) initiative. The data covers 198 countries from 1950 to 2022 and is created from several sources. These include IPUMS population census microdata from IPUMS, United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) aggregated population census data, aggregated household survey data from the International Labour Organization (ILO), replication data from papers by Bento and Restuccia (2017) and Poschke (2018), microdata from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys (WBES) and GDP per capita information from the Penn World Table.

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Design principles: aggregated rating scale indicators developed for Tearfund’s environmental and economic sustainability framework.