News of statistics

La Matanza tops homicide stats in Buenos Aires Province

16-04-2025 14:23 More than 150 murders were recorded in La Matanza last year — 11 more than in 2023.

Milei’s inflation miracle distorted by obsolete items in index

19-03-2025 17:12 Calls are getting louder for President Javier Milei’s government to redo the make-up of the consumer price index for the first time in two decades.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Nearly one million people are poor or destitute in Buenos Aires

04-10-2024 11:07 City Hall statistics bureau reveals that there are 159,000 more poor people than one year ago.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Social indicators cast doubt over Milei's 'catastrophe' averted claim

04-07-2024 13:09 President Javier Milei recently stated that the government’s social policy is “extremely good” and it had help prevent a “catastrophe.” Yet the government's own data and reports produced by private institutions indicate most social indicators have recorded a step backwards since he took office.

by Agustina Bordigoni

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Inflation leaving more than a million Argentines poor per month

19-02-2024 13:45 Over the past three months, over 3.6 million people have slipped into poverty, new data shows.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Inflation surpassed 211% in 2023, reveals INDEC

11-01-2024 16:45 Prices jumped 25.5% in December last year following devaluation of peso; Food prices soared an incredible 251.3% over the last 12 months, says statistics bureau.

Society

Argentina is the world's most pet-rich country

24-09-2023 16:25 According to various surveys carried out to date, the vast majority of Argentines have at least one pet in their homes.

by Dante Gabriel Bogani Sandez

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

UCA report: Poverty rate would be 50% without welfare support

03-09-2023 10:24 New report from the Catholic University of Argentina’s Social Debt Observatory concludes poverty affects 38.9% of the population; Those under 17 most affected; Without child benefit and welfare support payments from the government, half of Argentina would be poor.

Brazil's economy

Lula to tap ally to run Brazil statistics agency, raising concerns of its future

27-07-2023 12:21 Lula's appointment of economist Marcio Pochmann to head Brazil's IBGE statistics agency raises credibility concerns due to his controversial left-wing views and past budget cuts affecting data accuracy.