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Izabal's 2023 economic contraction and its figure

Dossier
Municipal intelligence for siting18-municipios.md
Domain
The country, department by departmentmunicipios
Room
Economy/economia
Audited
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Izabal was the department with the sharpest contraction in 2023: -5.8% according to Prensa Libre citing the 2023 PIBR report; the text extracted from Chart 3 of the 2024 report suggests -6.2% for 2023 (a revised figure) and 0.8% for 2024. The dossier records both figures and calls for a visual reading of the chart or of Banguat's XLSX tables to settle it. Even so, Izabal still holds the country's 5th-highest GDP per capita (Q54,310.5 in 2024), which confirms the economic density of its ports. The report does not attribute a cause in the prose extracted.

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Figures

Izabal real growth, 2023Prensa Libre / Banguat PIBR 2024
-5.8% (2023 report) / -6.2% (revised, 2024 report chart)2023
Izabal real growth, 2024Banguat PIBR 2024
0.8% (read from the chart, to be confirmed)2024

Caveat

figure to be confirmed by reading the chart or the XLSX tables visually

Sources

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  • Prensa LibreConfirms the 10% capital gains tax (art. 92, Decree 10-2012), the taxable base, the 10-day deadline and SAT form 1321Other

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