Official exchange rate (local currency units per US$, monthly average) (World Bank GEM): South Africa

The latest reading SOTW holds for South Africa is 16.4270 local currency units per US$ for 2026-10, from World Bank Global Economic Monitor.

Reviewed series · Exchange Rates · Monthly · local currency units per US$ · WB.GEM.FX.OFFICIAL.LCU.USD.M · ZAF

World Bank derived GEM observations; publisher native values and adjustment are preserved. Only reviewed individual countries/territories are included; regional/global aggregates are excluded. The workbook supplies no observation flags, detailed national methodological breaks or currency codes. No growth rate, quarter, currency conversion, annualization, deflation or rebasing is inferred. Quarterly GDP is the publisher quarterly measure, not guaranteed to be comparable with another publisher annual-rate convention. Local-currency levels and FX magnitudes cannot be compared across countries or across unreported currency redenominations. Monthly FX is an official period average, not a live currency-market quote; reserve cover refers only to merchandise imports. Rights apply to the World Bank published derived dataset, not underlying Datastream feeds.

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Latest

16.4270

local currency units per US$ · 2026-10

Previous

16.1976

local currency units per US$ · 2026-09

Oldest shown

13.9642

local currency units per US$ · 2016-11

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120

Newest readings; the full history is in the API