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Latin America

Economic Indicators, 2002 - 2008

  2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
               
 Real Sector              
Population (million) #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE! #VALUE!
GDP per capita (US$) #REF! #REF! #REF! #REF! #REF! #REF! #REF!
GDP (US$ billion) #REF! #REF! #REF! #REF! #REF! #REF! #REF!
GDP (annual variation in %) 0.6 2.0 5.9 4.5 5.5 5.7 4.3
Unemployment (%) 7.6 8.8 8.7 7.8 7.7 7.2 6.9
Fiscal Balance (% of GDP) -2.6 -2.1 -0.9 -0.9 -0.7 -0.2 -0.6
               
 Monetary Sector              
CPI (%-change) 11.2 7.1 6.9 5.7 4.9 6.1 8.4
Interest Rate (%) 14.5 9.7 10.8 10.9 9.1 9.3 11.8
Stock Market (US$-terms, %) -24.8 67.1 34.8 44.9 39.3 46.9 -52.8
Bonds (EMBI+ Latin) 1007.0 521.0 418.0 283.0 180.0 275.0 746.0
Exchange rate depreciation 23.2 -4.5 -3.5 -5.9 -2.9 -8.7 17.6
               
 External Sector              
Current Account (% of GDP) -0.8 0.6 1.0 1.4 1.5 0.4 -0.7
Trade Balance (% of GDP) #REF! #REF! #REF! #REF! #REF! #REF! #REF!
Current Account (US$ bn) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Trade Balance (US$ bn) 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0
Exports (US$ bn) 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9
Imports (US$ bn) 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8
Exports (%-change) 1.2 8.7 23.6 20.3 19.0 12.6 15.9
Imports (%-change) -7.0 3.2 21.9 18.1 19.2 19.3 21.6
Int. Reserves (US$ bn) #REF! #REF! #REF! #REF! #REF! #REF! #REF!
Int. Reserves (ms imports) #REF! #REF! #REF! #REF! #REF! #REF! #REF!
External Debt (US$ bn) #REF! #REF! #REF! #REF! #REF! #REF! #REF!
External Debt (% of GDP) #REF! #REF! #REF! #REF! #REF! #REF! #REF!
               
               

 

Note: Latin America refers to the sum or the GDP (current US$) weighted average of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Central America, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.

 

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