South Africa - Net foreign assets

Net foreign assets (current LCU)

The value for Net foreign assets (current LCU) in South Africa was 1,154,860,000,000 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 55 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1,154,860,000,000 in 2020 and a minimum value of -31,533,360,000 in 1998.

Definition: Net foreign assets are the sum of foreign assets held by monetary authorities and deposit money banks, less their foreign liabilities. Data are in current local currency.

Source: International Monetary Fund, International Financial Statistics and data files.

1965
1970
1975
1980
1985
1990
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
-200,000,000,000
0
200,000,000,000
400,000,000,000
600,000,000,000
800,000,000,000
1,000,000,000,000
1,200,000,000,000
1,400,000,000,000
Year Value
1965 353,892,900
1966 457,928,600
1967 470,571,500
1968 910,971,500
1969 910,700,000
1970 593,550,000
1971 412,357,200
1972 927,237,100
1973 794,665,600
1974 673,598,800
1975 205,500,000
1976 -580,303,400
1977 -544,082,200
1978 1,408,939,000
1979 3,946,846,000
1980 5,572,154,000
1981 2,303,068,000
1982 924,565,800
1983 156,569,300
1984 -1,410,227,000
1985 -3,824,265,000
1986 -751,358,000
1987 3,627,603,000
1988 1,176,424,000
1989 258,899,200
1990 799,484,800
1992 -10,608,220,000
1993 -16,492,940,000
1994 -20,641,760,000
1995 -17,954,250,000
1996 -31,037,970,000
1997 -23,270,280,000
1998 -31,533,360,000
1999 2,254,853,000
2000 10,606,670,000
2001 28,684,410,000
2002 83,744,140,000
2003 124,666,000,000
2004 139,752,000,000
2005 193,315,000,000
2006 271,460,000,000
2007 302,579,000,000
2008 387,441,000,000
2009 333,510,000,000
2010 337,781,000,000
2011 504,824,000,000
2012 504,105,000,000
2013 641,393,000,000
2014 600,238,000,000
2015 785,383,000,000
2016 703,621,000,000
2017 698,526,000,000
2018 760,012,000,000
2019 841,301,000,000
2020 1,154,860,000,000

Classification

Topic: Financial Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Assets