South Africa’s quarterly exports over the 10-year period spanning the first quarter of 2015 (Q1 2015) to the first quarter of 2025 (Q1 2025) have trended in an overall upwardly direction, and have outperformed imports in several instances. In Q1 2025, exports fell on a quarterly basis, but remain higher than imports in the current quarter, and higher than exports in the same quarter of 2024.
