Zambia’s government projects a 7% rise in spending in next year’s \u200bbudget, the finance ministry said \u200con Monday during public hearings ahead of the official budget presentation.<\/p>\n
Total expenditure is projected \u200bat 271.9 billion Zambian kwacha ($13.8 \u200bbillion) next year<\/p>\n
Revenue is expected to \u2060increase by about 6% to \u200b218.6 billion kwacha<\/p>\n
Next year’s borrowing is seen \u200bat 44.9 billion kwacha, 37.3 billion of which is domestic and 7.7 billion external. \u200bThat is up from 34.5 billion \u200bof borrowing this year<\/p>\n
Economic growth is expected to \u200creach \u20605.3% this year, below the 6.4% projection made when the 2026 budget was presented a year ago<\/p>\n
Copper output is \u200bexpected to \u200brise \u2060to 1.08 million metric tons in 2027, 1.25 million \u200btons in 2028 and 1.40 \u200bmillion \u2060tons in 2029. Copper output was 890,346 metric tons in 2025, missing the \u2060target \u200bof 1 million tons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Zambia’s government projects a 7% rise in spending in next year’s \u200bbudget, the finance ministry said \u200con Monday during public hearings ahead of the official budget presentation. Total expenditure is projected \u200bat 271.9 billion Zambian kwacha ($13.8 \u200bbillion) next year Revenue is expected to \u2060increase by about 6% to \u200b218.6 billion kwacha Next year’s borrowing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","source_name":"Reuters","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,2362,30],"tags":[394],"class_list":["post-22206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-featured","category-southern-africa","tag-zambia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22207,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22206\/revisions\/22207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}