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South Africa Macroeconomic Database API

v0.3.1 · Aug 19, 2025 · GPL-3

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An R API providing access to a relational database with macroeconomic time series data for South Africa, obtained from the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) and Statistics South Africa (STATSSA), and updated on a weekly basis via the EconData <https://www.econdata.co.za/> platform and automated scraping of the SARB and STATSSA websites. The database is maintained at the Department of Economics at Stellenbosch University.

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4 tracked
new 0.3.1 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.3.1 ← 0.3.0 diff Aug 18, 2025
updated 0.3.0 ← 0.2.6 diff May 23, 2024
new 0.2.6 May 14, 2023