Latin America's richest and poorest countries the next five years.

BY LATINVEX STAFF

Colombia is richer than China in GDP per capita terms, according to a Latinvex analysis of the latest data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Meanwhile, Costa Rica will become richer than Brazil in 2017, while Panama will be richer than Uruguay in 2018.

And Venezuela will gradually lose its ranking starting next year. Currently it ranks as the fifth-richest country, but next year it will fall to seventh position and by 2019 it will fall to 9^th place. In 2020, it will fall further to 10^th place. In other words it will go from ranking as the fifth-richest country in Latin America to the 8^th-poorest.

Both Brazil and Costa Rica will ...

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Keywords: Brazil, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Thailand, Uruguay, Venezuela

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Latin America GDP PPP 2015 Ranking

Latin America GDP PPP 2015-19: Ranking