According to data published by the National Institute of Statistics (INS) in its report on National Accounts, public investment recorded a decline of 0.2% in 2025, marking a striking contrast with the vigorous progression of 18.8% observed the previous year. This downward trend, already perceptible from the first quarter through the budgetary documents of the Ministry of Finance, stems primarily from the weakness of disbursements on external loans allocated to major projects, despite a favorable orientation of investments backed by domestic resources.


In counterpoint to this institutional slowdown, private investment has shown renewed vitality. The public statistical agency indeed records an acceleration of 6.6% in private commitments in 2025, sweeping away the near-stagnation observed a year earlier. This dynamism finds its roots in the materialization of structuring projects within the agro-industrial, manufacturing, and mining sectors, as well as in the development of productive infrastructures aimed at strengthening the country's industrial capacities.


Overall, the national economy thus displays a moderate progression of 1.9% in its total investment for the 2025 exercise, testifying to a gradual transfer of the growth relay to the market sector in the face of the conjunctural retreat of public procurement.


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