South Africa economic indicators
Source: South African Reserve Bank · Statistics South Africa
Inflation rate
Source: Statistics South Africa, published via the South African Reserve Bank · series CPI1000F · 60 published readings held, Aug 2021 to Jul 2026 · Open the source table · Headline consumer price inflation, year on year.
Change pills and trend lines show direction only — teal for a rise, red for a fall — and are not a view on whether a move helps or hurts you. Figures are reproduced without adjustment; nothing here is estimated, smoothed or interpolated. Series compiled by Statistics South Africa are labelled as such even though they are read through the Reserve Bank’s data service. The freshest reading here is 15 Sep 2026 and the slowest 2025. Always check the official release before relying on a figure.
One table, official sources, no estimates
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Two publishers, one table
The Reserve Bank compiles the policy rate, prime rate, bond yields, the exchange rate, money supply and reserves. Statistics South Africa compiles inflation, GDP, employment, retail trade, manufacturing and population. Both are read through the Reserve Bank’s data service, but each row names the agency that actually produced it rather than crediting everything to one.
Colour means direction, not judgement
Teal marks a rise on the previous published reading and red marks a fall. Whether that is welcome depends entirely on your position — a stronger rand helps an importer and hurts an exporter — so the colour never implies good or bad.
Mixed frequencies sit side by side
The policy rate, prime rate, bond yield and exchange rate are daily. Inflation, money supply and manufacturing are monthly. GDP, unemployment and employment are quarterly. Population is annual. The period column shows what each figure refers to, so a daily rate dated this week can legitimately sit beside a quarterly figure from several months ago.
Where these figures show up
Several of these series feed the Money Snap calculators directly. Open the one that matches what you are working out.
Common questions
All of them are read through the South African Reserve Bank’s public data service. Some are compiled by the Reserve Bank itself and some by Statistics South Africa, which the Reserve Bank redistributes; each row names its actual publisher. During verification the Stats SA figures read this way were compared against the Stats SA spreadsheet and matched to the decimal.
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Official data sources
Every figure above is dated individually by the period it refers to and names the agency that published it. Those periods differ by series, so no single verification date applies to the whole page.