# zaref.dev South African GDP Growth

> zaref.dev South African GDP Growth is a paid API for AI agents from zaref.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-17).

Returns the latest South African GDP growth rates (quarter-on-quarter and year-on-year) from Stats SA, with reference quarter, official source URL, effective date, and freshness flag.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://zaref.dev/v1/gdp?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-17
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/zaref-dev-south-african-gdp-growth-f43773be
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_6WHkMccQAULdaXzu7gdrg

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability zaref-dev-south-african-gdp-growth-f43773be
```

Example prompt: What is South Africa's latest GDP growth rate — both quarter-on-quarter and year-on-year — according to Stats SA, and which reference quarter does it cover?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need an authoritative, cited, machine-readable South African GDP growth figure (QoQ and YoY) with provenance metadata — particularly useful for financial apps, economic dashboards, or compliance workflows that require an official source URL and freshness guarantee rather than scraped or uncited data.

## Known failure modes

- Service unavailable or upstream Stats SA data not yet refreshed — may return stale data with freshness flag set to false
- Payment not processed (x402 protocol failure) — request not fulfilled
- Rate limiting if too many requests are made in quick succession
- Unexpected JSON structure if Stats SA changes its reporting format

## How this service works

South African GDP growth (Latest Stats SA GDP growth (QoQ and YoY), with reference quarter.) Clean cited JSON with official source URL, effective date and freshness flag.

## Output

A clean JSON object containing South Africa's latest GDP growth rates (QoQ and YoY percentages), the reference quarter they apply to, an official Stats SA source URL for citation, the effective date of the data, and a freshness flag indicating whether the data is current.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "data": "current values with citations",
  "stale": false,
  "series": "gdp",
  "source_url": "https://www.statssa.gov.za/publications/P0441/P04411stQuarter2026.pdf",
  "effective_date": "2026-06-09"
 }
}
```

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