{"id":308326,"date":"2019-04-01T14:53:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T12:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=308326"},"modified":"2019-04-01T14:58:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T12:58:05","slug":"this-is-how-much-you-contribute-to-south-africas-gdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/308326\/this-is-how-much-you-contribute-to-south-africas-gdp\/","title":{"rendered":"This is how much you contribute to South Africa’s GDP"},"content":{"rendered":"

New data released by Statistics South Africa<\/a><\/strong> shows how much each province contributes to the country’s total GDP.<\/p>\n

Stats SA found that Gauteng generated just over a third of South Africa\u2019s gross domestic product (GDP) in 2017, making it the nation\u2019s biggest provincial economy.<\/p>\n

KwaZulu-Natal was the second biggest, responsible for R16 of every R100 generated by the national economy, followed by the Western Cape in third.<\/p>\n

Northern Cape, the smallest provincial player, would need to multiply its economic output by 17 in order to square up against Gauteng, Stats SA said<\/p>\n

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“Gauteng\u2019s economic dominance is not surprising,” Stats SA said.<\/p>\n

“Finance, government, manufacturing, construction and four other industries are heavily represented in the province.<\/p>\n

“Agriculture and mining are the two exceptions. National agriculture production is mostly concentrated in Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.<\/p>\n

“The bulk of national mining activity takes place in North West, Mpumalanga and Limpopo.”<\/p>\n

Gauteng<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gauteng was home to 14.3 million people in 2017, according to data from the mid-year population estimates report.<\/p>\n

The province contributed R1.59 trillion to the country\u2019s GDP of R4.65 trillion (current prices), translating to R111,171 per person.<\/p>\n

This makes it the top ranking province in terms of GDP per capita – followed by Western Cape and Free State.<\/p>\n

The Eastern Cape was the lowest ranking province with around R55,094 per person.<\/p>\n

“Even if Eastern Cape were able to double its GDP per capita, it would still be slightly lower than that of Gauteng, ” Stats SA said.<\/p>\n

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A new series of graphs released by Statistics South Africa show how much each person contributes to the country’s total GDP based on their province. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":303724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[26,1809],"class_list":["post-308326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline","tag-stats-sa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308326"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308348,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308326\/revisions\/308348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}