COUNTRY CODE ZA

South Africa

883 tracked trade-flow records · 1 of 61 ports tracked

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Coverage

Metric	Value	Notes
Tracked flow records	883	Raw count of trade-flow records in the database naming South Africa as an origin or destination — a record count, never a summed dollar total.
Port coverage	1of 61	Ports catalogued for South Africa with verified cargo statistics tracked on PortIndex.

South Africa (Transnet national aggregate) ZA-TRANSNET-NATIONAL

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Trade partner concentration — by country, all commodities, current

How concentrated South Africa's trade is across its top partner countries, computed from currently-tracked trade flows (not the historical 1997–2015 World Bank dataset). Measures country-to-country concentration only — South Africa's trade_flows records don't carry product-level detail to break this down further.

731HHI · Diversified

+ 225 more tracked partners not shown above.

Top trading partners — South Africa SARS Trade Stats

South Africa's own official trading-partner ranking, Jul 2026. Published directly by South Africa's own national statistics office or customs authority -- a different measurement from the computed concentration figures above, and not the frozen World Bank Exporter Dynamics vintage below. Currency is each source's own reported unit, not converted here (no FX-rate table exists on this site).

Partner	Exports	Imports
China	ZAR 20.1B	ZAR 2.7B
India	ZAR 4.3B	ZAR 9.5B
Netherlands	ZAR 5.8B	ZAR 725.4M
United States	ZAR 2.4B	ZAR 3.2B
Nigeria	ZAR 204.4M	ZAR 5.2B
Mozambique	ZAR 3.3B	ZAR 1.3B
United Arab Emirates	ZAR 1.5B	ZAR 2.8B
Oman	ZAR 91.1M	ZAR 3.7B
Germany	ZAR 2.0B	ZAR 1.4B
United Kingdom	ZAR 2.7B	ZAR 609.3M
Zimbabwe	ZAR 2.8B	ZAR 480.2M
Korea, Republic of	ZAR 2.6B	ZAR 126.1M
Botswana	ZAR 2.3B	ZAR 200.5M
Namibia	ZAR 1.9B	ZAR 549.5M
Belgium	ZAR 1.9B	ZAR 540.8M
Eswatini	ZAR 1.3B	ZAR 970.7M
Brazil	ZAR 215.9M	ZAR 2.1B
Pakistan	ZAR 1.9B	ZAR 30.7M
Indonesia	ZAR 629.6M	ZAR 1.3B
Zambia	ZAR 1.7B	ZAR 78.0M
Saudi Arabia	ZAR 447.0M	ZAR 1.3B
Kuwait	ZAR 30.6M	ZAR 1.5B
Italy	ZAR 899.6M	ZAR 604.5M
Malaysia	ZAR 1.1B	ZAR 324.3M
Singapore	ZAR 1.4B	ZAR 61.9M
Viet Nam	ZAR 1.1B	ZAR 200.1M
Australia	ZAR 496.8M	ZAR 821.7M
Lesotho	ZAR 1.2B	ZAR 80.4M
Japan	ZAR 1.1B	ZAR 106.3M
Thailand	ZAR 34.1M	ZAR 1.1B
Russian Federation	ZAR 934.1M	ZAR 226.9M
Spain	ZAR 650.5M	ZAR 498.4M
France	ZAR 329.6M	ZAR 762.8M
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the	ZAR 994.1M	ZAR 25.2M
Taiwan, Province of China	ZAR 780.9M	ZAR 166.0M
Switzerland	ZAR 271.1M	ZAR 573.2M
Canada	ZAR 542.4M	ZAR 243.1M
Hong Kong	ZAR 724.7M	ZAR 2.0M
Kenya	ZAR 629.4M	ZAR 22.9M
Bangladesh	ZAR 567.3M	ZAR 3.6M
Portugal	ZAR 484.1M	ZAR 34.1M
Norway	ZAR 448.7M	ZAR 63.1M
Türkiye	ZAR 154.6M	ZAR 350.4M
Denmark	ZAR 96.7M	ZAR 361.2M
Poland	ZAR 101.4M	ZAR 354.5M
Chile	ZAR 13.4M	ZAR 431.9M
Panama	ZAR 142.2M	ZAR 302.0M
Ireland	ZAR 95.6M	ZAR 320.7M
Israel	ZAR 300.4M	ZAR 72.9M
Austria	ZAR 69.5M	ZAR 299.7M
Mauritius	ZAR 310.8M	ZAR 1.9M
Slovenia	ZAR 251.7M	ZAR 34.1M
Lithuania	ZAR 23.4M	ZAR 260.7M
Bulgaria	ZAR 210.3M	ZAR 35.6M
Argentina	ZAR 8.4M	ZAR 231.2M
Sweden	ZAR 83.6M	ZAR 152.8M
Angola	ZAR 130.2M	ZAR 87.3M
Malawi	ZAR 170.4M	ZAR 38.7M
New Zealand	ZAR 28.1M	ZAR 171.4M
Egypt	ZAR 27.2M	ZAR 164.4M
Tanzania, United Republic of	ZAR 163.7M	ZAR 24.3M
Jordan	ZAR 185.5M	ZAR 453
Madagascar	ZAR 162.5M	ZAR 2.5M
Côte d'Ivoire	ZAR 141.5M	ZAR 19.7M
Liberia	ZAR 135.1M	ZAR 34.1K
Mexico	ZAR 42.1M	ZAR 91.6M
Senegal	ZAR 131.9M	ZAR 16
Qatar	ZAR 41.4M	ZAR 85.8M
Libya	ZAR 1.2M	ZAR 118.8M
Uganda	ZAR 84.3M	ZAR 28.5M
Ghana	ZAR 103.9M	ZAR 2.1M
Greece	ZAR 68.1M	ZAR 34.9M
Marshall Islands	ZAR 93.8M	ZAR 9.9K
Romania	ZAR 81.0M	ZAR 9.8M
Czechia	ZAR 8.7M	ZAR 82.1M
Algeria	ZAR 30.9M	ZAR 56.4M
Latvia	ZAR 48.3M	ZAR 29.1M
Cameroon	ZAR 72.7M	ZAR 16.7K
Hungary	ZAR 6.8M	ZAR 64.2M
Finland	ZAR 36.0M	ZAR 32.4M
Iraq	ZAR 34.2M	ZAR 33.5M
Philippines	ZAR 43.8M	ZAR 22.6M
Congo	ZAR 63.2M	—
Croatia	ZAR 38.5M	ZAR 17.6M
Ecuador	ZAR 5.2M	ZAR 44.7M
Bahrain	ZAR 4.1M	ZAR 45.4M
Ethiopia	ZAR 35.2M	ZAR 12.3M
Puerto Rico	—	ZAR 43.8M
Sri Lanka	ZAR 16.2M	ZAR 22.1M
Guinea	ZAR 36.0M	ZAR 1.7K
Guatemala	ZAR 4.7M	ZAR 30.1M
Colombia	ZAR 13.3M	ZAR 19.9M
Uruguay	ZAR 5.2M	ZAR 27.6M
Bahamas	ZAR 32.4M	ZAR 19.6K
Malta	ZAR 24.1M	ZAR 5.9M
Togo	ZAR 28.4M	ZAR 275.2K
Peru	ZAR 10.2M	ZAR 15.6M
Seychelles	ZAR 25.3M	ZAR 880
Morocco	ZAR 16.1M	ZAR 9.0M
Estonia	ZAR 2.5M	ZAR 22.4M
Cyprus	ZAR 22.7M	ZAR 1.4M
Rwanda	ZAR 19.4M	ZAR 4.6M
Benin	ZAR 12.7M	ZAR 11.1M
Trinidad and Tobago	—	ZAR 21.0M
Gabon	ZAR 20.9M	ZAR 166
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	ZAR 20.4M	—
Antigua and Barbuda	ZAR 17.6M	ZAR 286.5K
Georgia	ZAR 14.2M	ZAR 3.0M
Lebanon	ZAR 12.3M	ZAR 4.7M
Costa Rica	ZAR 8.5M	ZAR 8.2M
Equatorial Guinea	ZAR 4.4M	ZAR 12.2M
Ukraine	ZAR 6.0M	ZAR 10.4M
Djibouti	ZAR 15.4M	—
Sudan	ZAR 15.2M	—
Cayman Islands	ZAR 15.2M	—
Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	ZAR 64.3K	ZAR 14.2M
Somalia	ZAR 14.1M	—
Albania	ZAR 10.1M	ZAR 367.3K
Slovakia	ZAR 2.5M	ZAR 8.0M
Tunisia	ZAR 10.2M	ZAR 42.0K
Azerbaijan	ZAR 5.4M	ZAR 3.7M
Réunion	ZAR 9.0M	—
Sierra Leone	ZAR 8.9M	—
Honduras	ZAR 4.0M	ZAR 4.6M
Syrian Arab Republic	ZAR 7.5M	ZAR 571.5K
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha	ZAR 7.8M	ZAR 216
Burkina Faso	ZAR 7.7M	ZAR 1.7K
Burundi	ZAR 1.1M	ZAR 6.3M
Kazakhstan	ZAR 1.6M	ZAR 5.7M
Mauritania	ZAR 1.5M	ZAR 5.5M
Serbia	ZAR 853.7K	ZAR 5.7M
Cambodia	ZAR 5.1M	ZAR 1.0M
Belarus	ZAR 5.9M	—
Nicaragua	—	ZAR 5.5M
Maldives	ZAR 5.5M	—
Montenegro	ZAR 5.1M	—
Mali	ZAR 5.0M	—
Dominican Republic	ZAR 1.4M	ZAR 3.1M
Kyrgyzstan	ZAR 4.2M	ZAR 668
Bolivia, Plurinational State of	—	ZAR 4.0M
Iran, Islamic Republic of	—	ZAR 3.4M
Uzbekistan	ZAR 3.2M	ZAR 6.7K
Gambia	ZAR 1.0M	ZAR 2.0M
Mayotte	ZAR 2.7M	—
Paraguay	ZAR 19.0K	ZAR 2.6M
Luxembourg	ZAR 1.7M	ZAR 895.7K
Jamaica	ZAR 2.3M	ZAR 7.6K
Moldova, Republic of	ZAR 1.4M	ZAR 750.9K
Mongolia	ZAR 2.1M	—
North Macedonia	ZAR 435.3K	ZAR 1.7M
Vanuatu	—	ZAR 1.9M
El Salvador	ZAR 1.9M	ZAR 7.6K
Myanmar	ZAR 1.0M	ZAR 785.6K
Yemen	ZAR 1.7M	—
Iceland	ZAR 1.5M	ZAR 186.8K
Tajikistan	—	ZAR 1.7M
Guyana	ZAR 1.6M	—
Comoros	ZAR 1.4M	—
Bosnia and Herzegovina	ZAR 1.4M	—
Armenia	ZAR 1.3M	ZAR 4.3K
Papua New Guinea	ZAR 1.2M	—
Nepal	ZAR 1.1M	ZAR 4.7K
Guinea-Bissau	ZAR 1.0M	—
Eritrea	ZAR 1.0M	ZAR 34
Solomon Islands	ZAR 811.0K	—
Brunei Darussalam	ZAR 744.1K	—
Liechtenstein	—	ZAR 730.6K
Cuba	—	ZAR 652.2K
French Polynesia	ZAR 535.7K	—
Niger	ZAR 530.3K	ZAR 1.5K
Cabo Verde	ZAR 462.9K	—
Timor-Leste	ZAR 457.7K	—
Guadeloupe	ZAR 391.8K	—
Antarctica	ZAR 374.5K	—
Suriname	ZAR 295.9K	—
Chad	ZAR 166.4K	—
Fiji	ZAR 129.8K	—
Martinique	—	ZAR 102.9K
Virgin Islands, British	ZAR 98.0K	ZAR 2.7K
South Sudan	ZAR 95.2K	—
Sao Tome and Principe	ZAR 42.6K	—
Saint Lucia	ZAR 18.6K	—
Barbados	—	ZAR 7.2K
Andorra	—	ZAR 3.8K
Bermuda	ZAR 2.6K	ZAR 350
Bhutan	—	ZAR 2.0K
Afghanistan	—	ZAR 677
Virgin Islands, U.S.	—	ZAR 84

Balance-of-payments goods trade — current (BPM6 basis)

Live dataset — South Africa SARB Balance of Payments goods trade, Q1 1990 to Q2 2026. IMF Balance of Payments Manual 6th edition (BPM6) methodology — differs in scope and valuation from customs declarations by design, not comparable in magnitude to a customs-basis figure without adjustment. Updates as South Africa's own reporting authority publishes new quarters — not the frozen World Bank Exporter Dynamics vintage below.

Reported in ZAR, South Africa's own national currency — not USD, and not converted here (no FX-rate table exists on this site). Not directly comparable in magnitude to other countries' USD-denominated figures without converting first.

Metric	Latest value	Quarter
Goods exports	R512.3B	Q2 2026
Goods imports	R522.5B	Q2 2026
Goods trade balance	-R10.2B	Q2 2026

Bilateral trade flows

South Africa is not among the top tracked corridors — its bilateral flow records exist in the full 1,821,338-row dataset but aren't yet browsable individually on this site.

Full partner list for 2025

Every one of South Africa's 217 real trading partners reported for 2025 under UN Comtrade (ZA) — a complete, deduplicated partner breakdown for this exact country/source/period combination, not a global top-N slice.

217 of 217 partners — page 1 of 5

Partner	Reported value
China (CN)	$12.8B
Germany (DE)	$8.8B
United States (US)	$8.3B
Japan (JP)	$5.5B
United Kingdom (GB)	$5.4B
Mozambique (MZ)	$5.2B
India (IN)	$4.7B
Netherlands (NL)	$4.3B
Namibia (NA)	$4.2B
Belgium (BE)	$4.1B
Botswana (BW)	$4.1B
Zimbabwe (ZW)	$4.1B
Zambia (ZM)	$3.5B
United Arab Emirates (AE)	$3.0B
Hong Kong (HK)	$1.9B
Eswatini (SZ)	$1.8B
Lesotho (LS)	$1.5B
Korea, Republic of (KR)	$1.4B
Spain (ES)	$1.4B
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the (CD)	$1.4B
Australia (AU)	$1.1B
Italy (IT)	$880.5M
France (FR)	$790.4M
Singapore (SG)	$756.2M
Kenya (KE)	$621.9M
Tanzania, United Republic of (TZ)	$605.2M
Malawi (MW)	$502.8M
Canada (CA)	$492.4M
Pakistan (PK)	$465.3M
Malaysia (MY)	$455.4M
Mauritius (MU)	$455.2M
Nigeria (NG)	$442.7M
Saudi Arabia (SA)	$439.5M
Thailand (TH)	$420.8M
Ghana (GH)	$387.3M
Viet Nam (VN)	$385.6M
Russian Federation (RU)	$385.0M
Angola (AO)	$368.8M
Türkiye (TR)	$364.6M
Indonesia (ID)	$358.8M
Switzerland (CH)	$328.5M
Mexico (MX)	$306.6M
Brazil (BR)	$291.7M
Greece (GR)	$288.3M
South Africa (ZA)	$286.2M
Portugal (PT)	$267.9M
Czechia (CZ)	$260.9M
Israel (IL)	$255.4M
Morocco (MA)	$230.5M
Bangladesh (BD)	$224.6M

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Historical Exporter Dynamics

Historical dataset — World Bank Exporter Dynamics Database, 1997–2014, frozen. The World Bank has not published a newer edition; this never updates. South Africa also has a single-year firm entry/exit snapshot on /labor-market.

Firm-level entry/exit/survival dynamics for South Africa's exporting firms, whole economy (not broken down by product) so every figure below is a genuine national rate — never an average across incompatible product categories. See /exporter-dynamics to compare South Africa against all 68 covered countries.

Metric	Latest value	Year
Number of exporting firms	24,663	2012
Incumbent exporting firms	17,090	2012
New entrant exporting firms	7,573	2012
Exiting exporting firms	5,786	2012
Firm entry rate	30.7%	2012
Firm exit rate	25.3%	2012
Exporter concentration (EDD HHI, 0–1 scale)	0.017	2012
Product categories exported (distinct HS4 codes)	1,154	2012
Avg. export value per exporting firm	$2.6M	2012
Median export value per exporting firm	$31.4K	2012
Avg. destination countries per exporting firm	3.3	2013
Median destination countries per exporting firm	1.0	2013

The 2012 mean is 83x the median — a small number of large exporting firms account for most of the export value; the typical firm exports far less than the average figure suggests.

Entrant survival curve — 2011 cohort of new exporting firms: 50.2% still exporting after 1 year — later years not yet available for this cohort (the World Bank vintage ends before enough time passed to observe them).

Top product categories among South Africa's exporting firms by number of exporters, 2012 — each row is a real, separately-reported HS2 product category, never combined with another.

Product category (HS2)	Exporting firms
Machinery and mechanical appliances HS 84	10,620
Electrical machinery and equipment HS 85	6,585
Articles of iron or steel HS 73	6,035
Plastics and articles thereof HS 39	5,217
Optical, medical, precision instruments HS 90	4,367
Vehicles other than railway HS 87	3,786
Rubber and articles thereof HS 40	3,635
Furniture, bedding, lamps HS 94	3,504

Top manufacturing industries among South Africa's exporting firms by number of exporters, 2012 — each row is a real, separately-reported ISIC industry, never combined with another.

Manufacturing industry (ISIC)	Exporting firms
Other fabricated metal products; metalworking ISIC 289	6,965
General purpose machinery ISIC 291	6,903
Plastics products ISIC 252	6,173
Special purpose machinery ISIC 292	5,551
Other chemical products ISIC 242	5,414
Medical, measuring, checking, testing instruments ISIC 331	4,100
Other manufacturing ISIC 369	3,708
Rubber products ISIC 251	3,628