Venezuela

Venezuela posted the steepest fall in this edition, down 12 places to 79th. Real output grew 1.6% in 2025, yet GDP measured in dollars fell 17.3% to US$99.7 billion: exchange-rate and price effects, not output, account for the gap. Consumer prices rose 252.0%, the highest inflation rate in the ranking.

The longer arc is starker. Venezuela's dollar GDP peaked at US$393.2 billion in 2010 and has slipped below its 2000 level of US$117.1 billion, when it ranked 36th of 194. It now sits between Côte d'Ivoire and Lithuania, the 12th-largest economy in Latin America & Caribbean and about the size of the Omaha, NE metro area.

Its 28.5 million people produce US$3,495 per person, 140th of 196, and $9,122 international dollars on a purchasing-power basis, also 140th. Unemployment stood at 5.3%. Sector shares, government debt and an IMF forecast are not available for this edition.