Trade Profiles
2021 Trade in commercial services
Transport
Travel Other commercial services
Industrial property
Merchandise trade Agricultural products Nonagricultural products
South Africa
South Africa
GDP (million current US$, 2020) GDP per capita (US$, 2018-2020) Current account balance (% GDP, 2020) Trade per capita (US$, 2018-2020) Trade (% GDP, 2018-2020)
302 114 5 794 2.2 1 689 29.2
Rank in world trade, 2020 Merchandise excluding intra-EU trade Commercial services excluding intra-EU trade
Exports
37 24 62 38
Imports
39 25 55 37
MERCHANDISE TRADE Value
Million US$ Merchandise exports, f.o.b. Merchandise imports, c.i.f.
Annual percentage change
2020 85 834 84 063 2020 0.49
Share in world total exports (%)
2010-2020 -1 -1
2019 -4 -6
2020 -5 -22 2020 0.47
Share in world total imports (%)
Breakdown in economy's total exports
Breakdown in economy's total imports
By main commodity group, % (2019)
By main commodity group, % (2019)
Agricultural products: 12.5
Fuels and mining products: 37.3
Agricultural products: 8.2
Fuels and mining products: 19.5
Manufactures: 43.8
Other: 6.4
Manufactures: 63.4
Other: 8.9
By main destination, % (2020)
By main origin, % (2020)
European Union: 18.9 United States of America: 8.4 Japan: 4.5
China: 11.5 United Kingdom: 5 Other: 51.9
European Union: 26.2 United States of America: 6.4 Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of: 3.9
China: 20.8 India: 5.2 Other: 37.6
Agricultural Products Value
Top exported products (Million US$) HS0805 HS0806 HS2204 HS0808 HS1005
2020 . 1 712 647 623 601 566
Citrus fruit, fresh or dried Grapes, fresh or dried Wine of fresh grapes Apples, pears and quinces, fresh Maize (corn)
Value
Top imported products (Million US$) HS1006 HS1001 HS1511 HS0207 HS1701
2020
Rice Wheat and meslin Palm oil and its fractions Meat and edible offal of poultry Cane or beet sugar
548 494 326 313 283
Share in economy's trade in agricultural products Exports 0%
10%
Imports 20%
0%
HS0805
HS1006
HS0806
HS1001
HS2204
HS1511
HS0808
HS0207
HS1005
HS1701
5%
10%
Million US$ Exports Imports
Value
2020 10 261 5 955
Annual percentage change
2010-2020 2 1
2019 -6 -3
2020 4 -6
Non-Agricultural Products Value
Top exported products (Million US$) HS7110 HS7108 HS2601 HS8703 HS2701
2020
Platinum Gold Iron ores and concentrates Motor cars for transport of persons Coal; briquettes, ovoids
10 741 6 717 6 118 4 611 3 926
Value
Top imported products (Million US$) HS2709 HS2710 HS8525 HS8703 HS3004
2020
Petroleum oils, crude Petroleum oils, other than crude Radio-telephony transmission tools Motor cars for transport of persons Medicaments in measured doses
5 088 3 566 2 282 2 109 1 820
Share in economy's trade in non-agricultural products Exports 0%
332
10%
Imports 20%
0%
HS7110
HS2709
HS7108
HS2710
HS2601
HS8525
HS8703
HS8703
HS2701
HS3004
5%
10%
Million US$ Exports Imports
Value
2020 74 706 57 865
Annual percentage change
2010-2020 0 -2
2019 -4 -6
2020 -6 -22
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South Africa TRADE IN COMMERCIAL SERVICES Value
Million US$ Commercial services exports Commercial services imports
Annual percentage change
2020
2010-2020
7 243 9 556 2020 0.15
Share in world total exports (%) Breakdown in economy's total exports
2019
2020
-8 -5
-50 -38
-7 -7
2020 0.21
Share in world total imports (%) Breakdown in economy's total imports
By main services item, % (2020)
By main services item, % (2020)
Transport: 17.4 Other commercial services: 45.9
Travel: 36 Goods-related services: 0.7
Transport: 42 Other commercial services: 48.3
By main destination
Travel: 9.7 Goods-related services: 0
By main origin
Value
FATS sales Inward (million US$) Outward (million US$)
Annual percentage change
2020 na na
2010-2020 na na
2019 na na
2020 na na
Transport South Africa
200
World
100 0
2010
2013
2016
Value
Million US$ Exports Imports
2020
Transport exports (Index 2010=100)
2020 1 260 4 015
Exports By sea By air By other
Value
2010-2020 -9 -6
Share (%)
na na na
Annual percentage change 2019 -4 -4
Imports By sea By air By other
na na na
2020 -40 -38
Value na na na
Share (%) na na na
Travel South Africa
200
World
Value
Million US$ Exports Imports
100 0
2010
2013
2016
2020 2 607 928
2010-2020 -12 -16
Annual percentage change 2019 -7 -8
2020 -69 -70
2020
Travel exports (Index 2010=100)
Other Commercial Services and Goods-related Services Exports of OCS by main item (2020) Other business services Financial services
13.6 15.5 22.4
48.5
Million US$
Value
2020
Other commercial services Exports 3 322 Imports 4 611
ICTs
Goods-related services Exports Imports
Other
2010-2020
Annual percentage change
0 -3
2019
2020
-12 -4
-13 -18
2020
2010-2020
2019
2020
53 2
9 -16
-13 3
10 -64
INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY Patent applications, 2019 Residents
567
Non-residents
6 347
Trademark applications, 2019 Total
6 914
World Trade Organization – Trade Profiles 2021
Residents
21 583
Non-residents
15 788
Industrial design applications, 2019 Total
37 371
Residents
976
Non-residents
908
Total
1 884
333