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South Africa: Services, value added
Value added by services (ISIC divisions 45-99) as a percentage of GDP.
Data status: CurrentThe latest figures we have collected are for 2025. 2026 is not overdue until March 27, 2028, a generous allowance for a annual series until we have timed this source’s releases.
Official statisticSource figures as of October 8, 2026Sources & methods
- Sources
- World Bank
- Period covered
- 1960 – 2025
- Source figures as of
- October 8, 2026
- Geography
- South Africa
- Sector
- Services (a national-accounts sector)
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not applicable
- Transformations
- Views other than the level (changes, averages, volatility) are calculated by CK Economics from these figures
- Revisions
- Replaced with the source’s latest figures whenever it revises them.
- Data status
- Current
Key figures
CK estimate% of GDP · calculated by CK Economics from World Bank data
- Latest · 2025
- 63.1
- +0.1 pp vs a year earlier1
- 5-year change
- −1.5 pp
- since 20202
- 10-year change
- −1.0 pp
- since 20152
- Record high
- 64.6
- 20203
- Record low
- 46.9
- 19803
- Where the latest ranks
- 80th pct.
- Higher than 80% of the other 65 observations since 19604
- 1Latest observation against the observation one year earlier (for weekly data, the nearest within three days).
- 2Latest observation against the observation five and ten years earlier.
- 3Highest and lowest published observations across the full history shown.
- 4Share of the other published observations that are lower than the latest one, rounded down.
Methodology
Value added by services (ISIC divisions 45-99) as a percentage of GDP. Compiled by the World Bank from national statistical offices and international agencies; some series (labour force participation) are ILO modelled estimates. Source series NV.SRV.TOTL.ZS. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators (WDI 2026-10-08). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NV.SRV.TOTL.ZS?locations=ZAF
All data
| Period | Value | Change y/y |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63.1 | +0.07 pp |
| 2024 | 63 | +0.27 pp |
| 2023 | 62.7 | +0.45 pp |
| 2022 | 62.3 | −0.47 pp |
| 2021 | 62.7 | −1.87 pp |
| 2020 | 64.6 | +0.26 pp |
| 2019 | 64.3 | +0.09 pp |
| 2018 | 64.3 | −0.08 pp |
| 2017 | 64.3 | +0.42 pp |
| 2016 | 63.9 | −0.19 pp |
| 2015 | 64.1 | +0.09 pp |
| 2014 | 64 | −0.04 pp |
| 2013 | 64.1 | −0.25 pp |
| 2012 | 64.3 | −0.04 pp |
| 2011 | 64.3 | +0.07 pp |
| 2010 | 64.3 | +0.64 pp |
| 2009 | 63.6 | +2.1 pp |
| 2008 | 61.5 | −1.22 pp |
| 2007 | 62.8 | −0.74 pp |
| 2006 | 63.5 | +0.85 pp |
| 2005 | 62.6 | +0.12 pp |
| 2004 | 62.5 | −0.05 pp |
| 2003 | 62.6 | +1.79 pp |
| 2002 | 60.8 | +0.01 pp |