Retail sales in Puerto Rico for the month of January 2022 reached a total of $2.667 billion. Compared to January 2021, sales increased by $103 million, or 4%. Compared to January 2020, sales increased by $200 million, or 8%. The categories with the largest year over year percentage increases were special food stores (53.9%), fuel distributors...Read More
The Puerto Rico Labor Department has released the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the month of February 2022. This index is the main indicator for price changes on the island. Year over year change in this index is referred to as the island’s inflation rate. The index stood at 125.38 in February. Compared to 2021, this...Read More
The Puerto Rico Tourism Company’s monthly report showed a total of 147,763 hotel registrations for the month of January 2022. Compared to January 20021, this was an increase of 34,500 registrations (30.5%). However, compared to January 2020, there were 27,326 fewer registrations, a decrease of 15.6%. After seeing a high number of registrations during the summer...Read More
Median household income in Puerto Rico reached $21,058 in 2020, according to the latest 5-year estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau. This means that in 2020, half of Puerto Rican households earned more than $21,058 a year while the other half earned less than that. When compared to 2015 median household income increased by 8.8%. ...Read More
Loans and leases for commercial domestic banks reached $32,637.5 million in 2021, their lowest point in the last decade. Loans and leases for commercial domestic banks have been declining on a yearly basis for most of the past decade, this pattern continued during 2021. Loans and leases decreased by $1,827.4 million or 5.3% in 2021 when...Read More
