umer prices):
5% (2006 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
17.1% of GDP (2006 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $72.15 billion
expenditures: $75.93 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA
(2006 est.)

Public debt:
32.9% of GDP (2006 est.)

Agriculture - products:
corn, wheat, sugarcane, fruits, vegetables; beef, poultry, mutton,
wool, dairy products

Industries:
mining (world's largest producer of platinum, gold, chromium),
automobile assembly, metalworking, machinery, textiles, iron and
steel, chemicals, fertilizer, foodstuffs, commercial ship repair

Industrial production growth rate:
7.1% (2006 est.)

Electricity - production:
227.2 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 93.5%
hydro: 1.1%
nuclear: 5.5%
other: 0% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
207 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - exports:
12.4 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - imports:
8.026 billion kWh (2004)

Oil - production:
229,900 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - consumption:
502,000 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA bbl/day (2001)

Oil - imports:
398,000 bbl/day (2006)

Oil - proved reserves:
7.84 million bbl (1 January 2002)

Natural gas - production:
2.23 billion cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
2.23 billion cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - imports:
0 cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - proved reserves:
28.32 million cu m (1 January 2005 est.)

Current account balance:
$-12.69 billion (2006 est.)

Exports:
$59.15 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Exports - commodities:
gold, diamonds, platinum, other metals and minerals, machinery and
equipment

Exports - partners:
Japan 9.9%, UK 9.7%, US 9.5%, Germany 6.5%, Netherlands 4.6% (2005)

Imports:
$61.53 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Imports - commodities:
machinery and equipment, chemicals, petroleum products, scientific
instruments, foodstuffs

Imports - partners:
Germany 14.2%, China 9.1%, US 7.9%, Japan 6.8%, Canada 6.3%, UK
5.6%, France 4.5%, Iran 4.2% (2005)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$23.74 billion (2006 est.)

Debt - external:
$55.47 billion (30 June 2006 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$487.5 million (2000)

Currency (code):
rand (ZAR)

Currency code:
ZAR

Exchange rates:
rand per US dollar - 6.85 (2006), 6.3593 (2005), 6.4597 (2004),
7.5648 (2003), 10.5