{"id":497929,"date":"2026-01-17T16:24:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/dominican-republic-leads-gdp-growth-projection-in-latin-america-for-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T16:24:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:24:49","slug":"dominican-republic-leads-gdp-growth-projection-in-latin-america-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/economy\/dominican-republic-leads-gdp-growth-projection-in-latin-america-for-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican Republic leads GDP growth projection in Latin America for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<em><strong>Santo Domingo.<\/strong>\u2013<\/em> The <strong>Dominican Republic<\/strong> leads the ranking of projected growth of the <strong>Gross Domestic Product (GDP) <\/strong>real in Latin America for the year 2026, with an estimate of 4.5%, according to data published by the <strong>magazine <em>Mercado<\/em><\/strong>, based on the <strong>World Economic Outlook of the World Bank.<\/strong>\n\nAccording to the report, the country is positioned in first place in the region, surpassing economies such as <strong>Panama (4.1%), Argentina (4.0%) and Paraguay (3.9%),<\/strong> which reaffirms the dynamism of the Dominican economy in the face of a regional context marked by deceleration and fiscal challenges.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/nacionales\/abinader-inaugura-mercado\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"592428\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abinader inaugurates municipal market in Las Matas de Farf\u00e1n to boost the local economy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe ranking places <strong>Guatemala (3.7%), Costa Rica (3.6%), and Honduras (3.5%)<\/strong> in the following positions, while <strong>El Salvador and Nicaragua<\/strong> share a growth projection of 3.0%. Colombia and Peru show more moderate estimates, with 2.6% and 2.5%, respectively.\n\nIn the mid-lower part of the table are <strong>Chile and Uruguay, <\/strong>both with 2.2%, followed by Ecuador, Brazil, and Haiti, with a projected growth of 2.0%. Mexico appears in 17th place with an estimate of just 1.3%, while Bolivia closes the ranking with a negative projection of -1.1%.\n\nThe Dominican Republic&#8217;s leadership in these projections reflects the confidence of international organizations in the country&#8217;s macroeconomic stability, as well as in the performance of key sectors such as tourism, foreign investment, free zones, and construction.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-01-17-at-3.50.40-PM-741x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-595891\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo.\u2013 The Dominican Republic leads the ranking of projected growth of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) real in Latin America for the year 2026, with an estimate of 4.5%, according to data published by the magazine Mercado, based on the World Economic Outlook of the World Bank. According to the report, the country is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[40231,39784],"class_list":["post-497929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-economy","tag-dominican-republic","tag-latin-america"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-25x7","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Economy"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}