{"id":198312,"date":"2025-05-18T00:24:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T22:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibias-public-debt-expected-to-surpass-n168-billion-by-2025-26-financial-year\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T00:24:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T22:24:31","slug":"namibias-public-debt-expected-to-surpass-n168-billion-by-2025-26-financial-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibias-public-debt-expected-to-surpass-n168-billion-by-2025-26-financial-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia&#8217;s Public Debt Expected to Surpass N$168 Billion By 2025\/26 Financial Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\"><em>Namibia&#8217;s public debt is forecast to increase from N$144 billion in the 2023\/24 financial year to approximately N$168 billion by the 2025\/26 financial year, according to Simonis Storm.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Junior economist at Simonis Storm Almandro Jansen says the rise comes despite incremental gains in gross domestic product (GDP) growth and a moderate recovery in reserve buffers, reflecting ongoing structural pressures in the fiscal landscape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">He says this projected trajectory implies a debt-to-GDP ratio between 68%&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505160315.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Namibia&#8217;s public debt is forecast to increase from N$144 billion in the 2023\/24 financial year to approximately N$168 billion by the 2025\/26 financial year, according to Simonis Storm. Junior economist at Simonis Storm Almandro Jansen says the rise comes despite incremental gains in gross domestic product (GDP) growth and a moderate recovery in reserve buffers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":198313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,6495,6861,6474,5063,51369,724,9052,257,5751,254,16050,6537],"class_list":["post-198312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-billion","tag-debt","tag-expected","tag-financial","tag-n168","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibias","tag-news","tag-public","tag-south-africa-today","tag-surpass","tag-year"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}