South Africa - Changes in inventories (current LCU)

The value for Changes in inventories (current LCU) in South Africa was -53,626,690,000 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 37,802,580,000 in 2019 and a minimum value of -53,626,690,000 in 2020.

Definition: Inventories are stocks of goods held by firms to meet temporary or unexpected fluctuations in production or sales, and "work in progress." Data are in current local currency.

Source: World Bank national accounts data, and OECD National Accounts data files.

Year Value
1960 116,000,000
1961 109,000,000
1962 93,000,000
1963 234,000,000
1964 225,000,000
1965 196,000,000
1966 60,000,000
1967 463,000,000
1968 322,000,000
1969 421,000,000
1970 432,000,000
1971 607,000,000
1972 -173,000,000
1973 88,000,000
1974 1,000,000,000
1975 378,000,000
1976 -548,000,000
1977 -405,000,000
1978 -517,000,000
1979 -99,000,000
1980 2,303,000,000
1981 3,744,000,000
1982 -2,097,000,000
1983 -733,000,000
1984 209,000,000
1985 -3,343,000,000
1986 -1,076,000,000
1987 -3,237,000,000
1988 666,000,000
1989 1,036,000,000
1990 -4,577,000,000
1991 -96,000,000
1992 -2,742,000,000
1993 -2,823,000,000
1994 8,076,000,000
1995 12,443,000,000
1996 5,358,000,000
1997 1,121,000,000
1998 -728,000,000
1999 7,533,000,000
2000 7,090,000,000
2001 2,454,000,000
2002 13,727,000,000
2003 14,907,000,000
2004 29,630,000,000
2005 17,516,000,000
2006 23,141,000,000
2007 7,142,000,000
2008 -8,555,000,000
2009 -20,228,000,000
2010 1,039,180,000
2011 34,730,000,000
2012 23,167,310,000
2013 22,826,870,000
2014 7,720,631,000
2015 27,596,950,000
2016 -22,895,900,000
2017 10,762,150,000
2018 37,003,970,000
2019 37,802,580,000
2020 -53,626,690,000

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Economic Policy & Debt Indicators

Sub-Topic: National accounts