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Location of South Africa. South Africa is the southernmost country in Africa. It is the 25th-largest country in the world by land area, and with close to 60 million people, is the world's 24th-most populous nation. The World Bank classifies South Africa as an upper-middle-income economy, and a newly industrialised country.
(April 2023) Below is a list of the largest consumer markets of the world , according to data from the World Bank . The countries are sorted by their household final consumption expenditure (HFCE) which represents consumer spending in nominal terms. [ 1 ]
The figures are in billions of US dollars and are for the year 2019. All 14 companies from South Africa in the Forbes 2000 are listed. [2] *Despite the company being South African with Head Offices in South Africa, the company is listed as British by the Forbes 2000 ranking due to the entity's registered address in London.
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This list comprises the largest companies currently in Africa by revenue as of 2022, excluding the finance sector, according to the ranking of the largest 500 companies in Africa by Jeune Afrique. In 2022, the largest company in Africa was Sonatrach with revenue of US$77 billion.
The consumer price index (CPI) is the official measure of inflation in South Africa. One variant, the consumer price index excluding mortgage costs (CPIX), is officially targeted by the South African Reserve Bank [ 1 ] and a primary measure that determines national interest rates.
[128] [129] South Africa's Bureau of Statistics estimates that between 1 million and 1.6 million people in skilled, professional, and managerial occupations have emigrated overseas between 1994 and 2004 and that, for every emigrant, 10 unskilled people lose their jobs. [128]
Statistics South Africa (frequently shortened to Stats SA) is the national statistical service of South Africa with the goal of producing timely, accurate and official statistics, in order to advance economic growth, development and democracy. To this end, Statistics South Africa produces official demographic, economic and social censuses and ...