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Montevideo, June 19th 2025 - 00:47 UTC

Tag: Indec

  • Thursday, May 2nd 2024 - 19:11 UTC

    Argentina: Drop in retail prices expected soon

    Caputo agreed with executives from the main supermarket chains that imported goods would help lower the retail prices

    In line with President Javier Milei's chainsaw politics to curb inflation, Argentine supermarkets expect a drop in retail prices shortly once imported items arrive to compete with local production as agreed upon with the Economy Ministry in March, it was reported in Buenos Aires.

  • Friday, April 12th 2024 - 21:40 UTC

    Argentina: Inflation in March reaches 11%

    Friday's results somehow corroborated Economy Minister Luis Toto Caputo's forecast

    According to a report released Friday in Buenos Aires by Argentina's National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec), the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in March in the South American country went up 11% for an interannual total of 287.9%. The new figure represented a 2.2% decrease from February but a 51.6% growth in the first quarter of 2024.

  • Friday, January 12th 2024 - 10:34 UTC

    CPI goes up 25.5% in December in Argentina

    “We applied a much deeper adjustment plan than the one requested by the IMF,” Milei explained

    Argentina's National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) Thursday said the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for December 2023 went up by 25.5% for an interannual total of 211.4%, it was reported in Buenos Aires.

  • Wednesday, August 16th 2023 - 11:48 UTC

    Argentina: July's inflation reported at 6.3%

    According to Indec, salaries in June narrowly beat inflation

    Argentina's National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) announced Tuesday that the variation in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the month of July of 2023 was 6.3% for a total of 60.2% in the first seven months of the year and 113.4% interannually, it was reported in Buenos Aires.

  • Wednesday, February 1st 2023 - 10:42 UTC

    Census shows Argentina has a population of 46 million

    “The 2022 Census covered 98.6% of segments nationwide. At an international level this is an extremely good level,” Lavagna said

    Argentina's National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) Tuesday published the results of the 2022 survey, which showed that the country has 46,044,703 inhabitants in 17,805,711 households nationwide. The study also found that 48.22% of the total population was male and 51.76% female.

  • Wednesday, November 16th 2022 - 10:18 UTC

    Indec says Argentina's inflation for October reached 6.3%

    Tuesday's interannual figures were also the highest since the end of hyperinflation in the early 1990s

    Argentina's inflation reached 6.3% in October for an 88% interannual result, according to the latest report from the National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec). According to current projections, it may reach 100% by the end of the year.

  • Thursday, October 6th 2022 - 10:38 UTC

    Argentines striving between childhood poverty and indigence, CFK's favorite economist pointed out

    Superminister Sergio Massa “will do something” about the increasing poverty, Lechter said

    Following last week's figures from Argentina's National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) pointing out that 50% of the country's children under 15 lived in poverty, researcher Agustín Salvia said the data were “in line with what was expected.”

  • Wednesday, August 24th 2022 - 09:31 UTC

    Inflation in Argentina hits working-class neighborhoods harder

    Lettuce went up 178.57% in July

    According to a report by the Institute of Social, and Economic Research (Isepci) released Tuesday, inflation in suburban Buenos Aires where most working-class people reside, reached 11% in July, which is tantamount to saying it was 5 percentage points above the country's 6% average as per National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) figures.

  • Tuesday, August 23rd 2022 - 09:27 UTC

    Yet another month of trade deficit for Argentina

    It was the second consecutive month with a trade deficit for an economy badly in need of hard currency

    Argentina's trade balance came out in the red in July of 2022 after yielding a US$ 437 million deficit, the National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) showed Monday in a report.

  • Friday, July 22nd 2022 - 09:44 UTC

    Argentina's foreign trade balance yields deficit in June

    The INDEC figures are the direct result of western sanctions against Russia, which drove the price of oil upwards

    Argentina's foreign trade balance came out in the red in June of 2022 for the first time since 2018, it was reported in Buenos Aires by the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INDEC).