Latin America - Economic Indicators 1996

	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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