South Africa public finance data

Name: South Africa public finance data
Creator: PollsAfrica

National government revenue and spending, what the nine provinces spend on education, health and social development, and the finances of about 260 municipalities, from National Treasury and Municipal Money. National and provincial years run April to March (2024/25 is April 2024 to March 2025). Municipal years run July to June. Amounts are in rand. Last updated 28 October 2026 and extended as more documents are checked.

National revenue and spending · Provinces · Top 10 lists · Municipalities · Download · How we publish

National revenue and spending, year by year

Press play to step through the fiscal years. Each year shows the revised estimate from the following year's Budget Review, which is the Treasury's best figure for a year that has closed. The last year is the budget. Amounts are nominal rand.

What the provinces spend

Provincial spending on the three largest votes, as printed in the Provincial Budgets and Expenditure Review. Choose a vote and a year.

VoteYear

Top 10 lists

Lists built from Municipal Money, the Census, the Provincial Budgets and Expenditure Review and the Division of Revenue Bill. Each states its measure and year in the title and ranks by the number shown, nothing else. Switch between them below.

Municipalities

Pick a province, then click a municipality. Dark squares mark the years (2017/18 to 2024/25) we hold figures for.

Province

figures held for the yearnot held

Download the data

Free to download, with the source named in every row. Read the notes first, and cite us as shown under How we publish.

municipal_finances_by_year.csv · audited finances of about 260 municipalities, 2017/18 to 2024/25
municipal_capital_spending_by_function.csv · capital spending by function, by municipality and year
national_fiscal_framework.csv · national revenue, spending and balance by fiscal year
provincial_spending_by_vote.csv · provincial spending on education, health and social development
equitable_share_provinces_and_municipalities.csv · equitable share in the Division of Revenue Bills
national_tax_revenue_by_type.csv · national tax revenue by type
national_gross_loan_debt.csv · gross and net loan debt, foreign share and debt service costs
national_spending_by_function.csv · consolidated spending by function, 2022/23 onward
README.txt · sources, notes and how to cite

How we publish

How to cite this page
PollsAfrica, South Africa public finance data, pollsafrica.com/data/south-africa-public-finance. Original source: the National Treasury or Municipal Money table named beside each figure.

What the figures are
Amounts are published as printed, in nominal rand. National years show the revised estimate and the last year is a budget. Municipal figures are audited outcomes from Municipal Money. We rank by the number shown and use no best or worst language.

How we check them
National and provincial tables must add to their printed totals, and the nine provinces must add to the printed national figure. Municipal items are checked against their own totals. A figure that fails a check is not shown, and blank cells are never shown as zero.

Gaps we know about
Municipal operating totals exist only from 2022/23, so earlier years show items without totals. Equitable share figures for 2026/27 are from the bill as tabled, and the Act may differ. Provincial GDP and the 2022 census population by province are still being collected, and spending by function is held only from 2022/23.

Sources and reuse
Every figure names its source. We publish figures and link to the original, and we do not host copies of the source documents. Municipal Money data is reused with the source credited.

Corrections
Found an error, or know of a document we are missing? Tell us. We check it and log a dated correction.

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