Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2023

The 2023 edition of the Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean, its seventy-fifth issue, consists of three parts. Part I outlines the region’s economic performance in 2022 and analyses trends in the early months of 2023, as well as the outlook for growth for the year and for 2024. It highlights the external and domestic factors that have influenced the region’s economic performance and how these factors will affect economic growth in the coming years.

Part II of this edition analyses the macroeconomic repercussions of climate change on the economies of Latin America and the Caribbean and the potential financial mechanisms for facilitating the investment needed to make economies resilient and drive dynamic, sustained and sustainable growth.

Part III of this publication may be accessed on the website of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) (www.cepal.org/en). It contains the notes relating to the economic performance of the countries of the region in 2022 and the first half of 2023, together with their respective statistical annexes.