Mozambique: Average annul growth rate of 5.5 per cent projected – AIM

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Mozambique: Average annul growth rate of 5.5 per cent projected – AIM

7:01 CAT | 24 Apr 2025

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The Mozambican government is projecting average annual economic growth of four per cent, excluding natural gas, and 5.5 per cent, if the natural gas projects are included.

This is one of the key economic targets included in the government’s five year programme for 2025-2029, which Prime Minister Benvinda Levi introduced in the country’s parliament, the Assembly of the Republic on Thursday morning.

Over the five year period, the government expects annual per capita income to grow from 662 US dollars to 736.6 dollars. If achieved, that will be a growth in income of only 11.3 per cent, or an average growth of just 2.26 per cent a year.

The government hopes to keep average annual inflation at around 4.5 per cent.

Levy said the percentage of the population with access to electricity should rise from the current figure of 60.1 per cent to 88 per cent in 2029. Access to health care is projected to rise from 70.2 per cent to 73 per cent.

The programme forecasts a drop in the unemployment rate from 18.4 to 14.7 per cent.

In education, the government plans to cut the number of pupils per teacher from 68.1 to 55.

Over the five years, the government plans to build 7,440 kilometres of electricity transmission lines, 3,492 primary school classrooms, 14 district hospitals, and 1,766 rural water supply systems.

Levy said the government is proposing to implement programmes for environmental protection, and for the sustainable use of natural resources. Such programmes should help mitigate the adverse effects of climate change and contribute to the establishment of “a resilient and inclusive economy”.

But in order to achieve any progress, the Prime Minister warned, “all of us must remain focused on the preservation of peace, stability, and public order and security. These are the foundations without which it is virtually impossible to ensure the full, inclusive socio-economic development of our country”.

Achieving peace is threatened by foci of violence that appear without warning in parts of the country. Thus, on Thursday, the Mozambican armed forces (FADM) announced that they have regained control of the Sabe administrative post, in Zambezia province, which had been in the hands of people calling themselves members of the Naparama peasant militia for the previous two months.

Nobody in the government or the media had previously suggested that there was any problem in Sabe.

Source: AIM