In 2017, changes in inventories for South Africa was -0.1 %. Though South Africa changes in inventories fluctuated substantially in recent years, it tended to decrease through 1998 - 2017 period ending at -0.1 % in 2017.
The description is composed by our digital data assistant.Changes in inventories (including work-in-progress) consist of changes in: (a) stocks of outputs that are still held by the units that produced them prior to their being further processed, sold, delivered to other units or used in other ways; and (b) stocks of products acquired from other units that are intended to be used for intermediate consumption or for resale without further processing; they are measured by the value of the entries into inventories less the value of withdrawals and the value of any recurrent losses of goods held in inventories.
Date | Value | Change, % |
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2017 | -0.1 | -17.65% |
2016 | -0.2 | -129.97% |
2015 | 0.5 | 394.48% |
2014 | 0.1 | -86.26% |
2013 | 0.8 | 6.96% |
2012 | 0.7 | 22.10% |
2011 | 0.6 | 144.77% |
2010 | 0.2 | -130.62% |
2009 | -0.8 | 123.38% |
2008 | -0.4 | -206.66% |
2007 | 0.3 | -73.09% |
2006 | 1.3 |