Peru’s Economy Posts Second-Worst Contraction in 33 Years
- GDP fell 0.6% in 2023, second-deepest slide since 1990
- Output fell 0.4% in 4Q 2023, in line with analyst expectations
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Peru’s economy posted its second-worst contraction in more than 30 years in 2023, as political turmoil and extreme weather hurt the once booming nation.
Gross domestic product shrank 0.6% in 2023 compared to a year earlier, the country’s statistics agency INEI said in a release Thursday. That is the second-deepest decline since 1990, when the economy was in the grips of a hyperinflation crisis, according to the central bank. The worst result in that period was in 2020 when the pandemic sent the economy into an 11% plunge.