{"id":198600,"date":"2025-05-22T12:34:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T10:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-construction-sector-set-to-surge-in-2025-simonis-storm\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T12:34:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T10:34:05","slug":"namibia-construction-sector-set-to-surge-in-2025-simonis-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-construction-sector-set-to-surge-in-2025-simonis-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Construction Sector Set to Surge in 2025 &#8211; Simonis Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><em>Namibia&#8217;s construction sector is expected to be the fastest-growing industry in 2025, with a projected expansion of 8.5%, despite its relatively small contribution of 1.4% to the gross domestic product in 2024.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">This is according to Simonis Storm economist Almandro Jansen, who says a mix of supportive economic policies, increased public investment, and improved private sector sentiment will drive growth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">&#8220;Total output is expected to reach approximately N$4.3 billion, with momentum largely&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505210231.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 construction sector is expected to be the fastest-growing industry in 2025, with a projected expansion of 8.5%, despite its relatively small contribution of 1.4% to the gross domestic product in 2024. This is according to Simonis Storm economist Almandro Jansen, who says a mix of supportive economic policies, increased public investment, and improved private [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":198601,"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":[258,256,7601,4706,724,257,5991,7106,40056,254,11234,10716],"class_list":["post-198600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-construction","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-sector","tag-set","tag-simonis","tag-south-africa-today","tag-storm","tag-surge"],"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\/198600","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=198600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}