Venezuela
Everything Palanor holds about Venezuela, in one place: 59 public signals, what its economy runs on, how often America’s largest companies name it, the news that names it, and Country Posture. Every figure is computed from stored readings and carries its source and date.
South AmericaAmericasLatin America & Caribbean
The latest read
- GDP in current U.S. dollars: $99.7 billion (2025); 46th percentile since 1990; lowest since 2022; 1y −17.3%.
- Household consumption, share of GDP: 0% of GDP (2011); record low since 1990; 1y unchanged.
- Net exports, share of GDP: 4.79% of GDP (2025); 68th percentile since 1990; lowest since 2021; 1y −2.44 pts.
Country Posture
What Venezuela’s economy is doing
Momentum
2025Inputs only. Did not pass the pre-registered back-test: 1996–2009: AUC 0.590 below 0.60; AUC 0.590 below the single-input baseline (0.624); 2010–2022: AUC 0.595 below 0.60; AUC 0.595 below the single-input baseline (0.641).
Inputs
| Real GDP growth | 1.6 |
| Growth against its three-year average | -4.3 |
| Change in unemployment | -0.0 |
| Change in the employment rate | -0.1 |
| Export volume growth | — |
| OECD leading indicator | — |
Resilience
2025Withheld: 2 of 5 core inputs reported for 2025.
Inputs
| Interest as a share of revenue | — |
| Budget balance | — |
| Reserves, months of imports | — |
| Current account | 0.6 |
| Governance (WGI mean) | -1.73 |
| External debt | — |
Pressure
2025Inputs only. Did not pass the pre-registered back-test: 1996–2009: AUC 0.657 below the single-input baseline (0.672).
Inputs
| Inflation | — |
| Change in inflation | — |
| Currency move against the dollar | — |
| Conflict deaths per million | 0.1 |
| Political stability | -1.51 |
| Private credit, three-year change | — |
| Bond spread over U.S. Treasuries | — |
Posture describes what an economy is doing; it is not a rating and never ranks countries. Each input is read against the country’s own history and against every other economy that year. An axis shows a score only after passing a back-test fixed before any result was computed. Method and back-test.
Passport reach
Where a Venezuela passport opens doors
The share of world GDP, outside Venezuela itself, in the economies whose published rules let a holder of this passport in, as of October 2026. Palanor records the rules of destinations holding 88% of world GDP, from each government’s own list, and weights them by World Bank GDP for 2025. Rank is among 199 passports.
Work
0.0%rank 114 of 199
the right to work (free movement in full; treaty and working-holiday routes at half); 0 destinations in full.
Reach is shown here and not weighted into Country Strength: it rewards membership of a free-movement area or a treaty more than the strength of an economy. Entry is always at the border officer’s discretion, and conditions (length of stay, fees, age limits) vary. Method, sources and the full ranking: Passports and citizenship.
Palanor calculation from each destination government's published rules; GDP weights from the World Bank (CC BY 4.0), one year for the whole line, so it moves only when a list changes.
GDP by expenditure
What Venezuela’s economy runs on
In 2011, household spending was 0.0% of GDP, government consumption 0.0%, investment 0.0% and net exports 0.0% (exports 0.0%, imports 0.0%).
World Bank national accounts. The parts can miss 100 by a few points (the statistical discrepancy).
Same World Bank definition for every country, so the shares compare directly: What each economy runs on.
IMF World Economic Outlook
The IMF’s outlook for Venezuela
The latest year before the October 2026 edition (often still an IMF estimate) and the IMF’s own projections. These are the IMF’s published forecasts, shown as published; Palanor does not project them further. Since the previous edition the IMF raised its growth forecast for this year by 1.0 percentage points (Palanor calculation).
| Measure | 2025 | 2026 IMF f’cast | 2027 IMF f’cast |
|---|---|---|---|
| Real GDP growth% | 9.0 | 5.0 | 7.0 |
| Inflation, average consumer prices% | 252.0 | 467.9 | 174.7 |
| GDP, current US dollarsUS$ bn | 101.5 | 124.2 | 130.6 |
| GDP at purchasing-power parityintl $ bn | 260.1 | 282.4 | 311.8 |
| GDP per person, US dollarsUS$ | 3,559 | 4,355 | 4,581 |
| Current account balance% of GDP | 0.6 | -1.0 | -3.4 |
Source: IMF World Economic Outlook Database (edition on the projection). Dashed: the IMF's published projection.
Source: IMF World Economic Outlook Database, October 2026. Provided by the IMF “as is” and free of charge from the IMF; the IMF does not endorse Palanor.
Discourse
How often S&P 500 companies name Venezuela
7.6% list it in the risk factors of their latest 10-K. Names only, counted by fixed rules set before any document was read; a mention says the country came up, not why.
Conflict
Organized violence
News
In the news
- US lifts sanctions on Venezuela National Assembly head
The US Treasury removed the National Assembly head from its sanctions list.
Palanor Wire2026-10-14negative · -sanctions
- Carlos Baute: su amor por la Argentina, su familia como prioridad y cómo vive la situación política de Venezuela
La Nación (Argentina)2026-10-21neutral
- Venezuela to attract investors after elections, Branson says reut.rs/4soawmI
Reuters · Bluesky2026-10-21neutral
- Euro hoy en Venezuela: precio y cotización de la divisa este miércoles 21 de octubre de 2026
Clarín · Economía2026-10-21neutral
- Venezuela: trabajadores de PDVSA inician huelga por salarios de US$ 5 semanales
Rumbo Minero2026-10-20neutral
- Del Lago de Maracaibo a la piel: la ciencia que cura quemaduras con desechos de cangrejos azules en Venezuela
Mongabay Latam2026-10-20neutral
- Euro hoy en Venezuela: precio y cotización de la divisa este martes 20 de octubre de 2026
Clarín · Economía2026-10-20neutral
- Venezuela oilfield hiring picks up as first wave of investment builds reut.rs/4isfTO6
Reuters · Bluesky2026-10-19positive · +hiring +investment
- Venezuela proyecta US$ 76.000 millones en inversiones petroleras
Rumbo Minero2026-10-19neutral
- Consulados de Chile en Venezuela reiniciaron sus operaciones este lunes
La Tercera2026-10-19neutral
- Euro hoy en Venezuela: precio y cotización de la divisa este lunes 19 de octubre de 2026
Clarín · Economía2026-10-19neutral
- Venezuela: Pueblos indígenas en el arco minero del Orinoco enfrentan amenazas relacionas al extractivismo
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre2026-10-18neutral
- María Corina Machado denuncia que EE.UU. la excluye de la transición en Venezuela y propone un “Gran Acuerdo Nacional”
La Nación (Argentina)2026-10-18neutral
- Some political prisoners in Venezuela have a specific jailer: a person with a grudge who needs to be convinced to release them. And almost half of those remaining have a military past
The Economist · Bluesky2026-10-18neutral
Headlines that name Venezuela, matched by name with fixed rules (a wrong match is worse than a missing one). Tone is read from each headline’s own words; no model reads or summarizes an article, and other publishers’ stories link out.
Company graph
Companies headquartered in Venezuela
Palanor’s company graph holds 3 entities headquartered here (GLEIF headquarters address, else legal address).
Signals
Every series about Venezuela
Grouped by theme, the most-read first. All 59 in the Library.
Growth and output5
- GDP per Person, Historical (Maddison): Venezuela61st percentile since 1800; highest since 2019; 1y +7.6%5,267.22022
- GDP, Historical (Maddison): Venezuela67th percentile since 1820; highest since 2019; 1y +8.0%149.72022
- Population, Historical (Maddison): Venezuela95th percentile since 1820; highest since 2018; 1y +0.4%28,417,900 people2022
- Venezuela · GDP · USD bn (current)46th percentile since 1990; lowest since 2022; 1y −17.3%$99.7bn2025
- Share of World GDP, Historical (Maddison): Venezuela12th percentile since 1820; 1y +0.005 pts0.12% of world GDP2022
Trade and capital flows2
- U.S. Goods Trade With Venezuela (Exports + Imports)13th percentile since 1985; 1y −35.1%6.67 $ billions2025
- Venezuela's Share of U.S. Goods Trade13th percentile since 1987; 1y −0.074 pts0.12% of U.S. goods trade2025
Energy and resources9
- Crude Oil Production · Venezuela14th percentile since Jan 1973; 1y +18.4%1,1602026-06-01
- Venezuela · Carbon Intensity of Electricityrecord low since 2000; 1y −6.4%85.9 gCO2e/kWh2024
- Venezuela · Electricity Generation6th percentile since 2000; 1y +11.4%80.1 TWh2024
- Venezuela · Gas Share of Electricity Generationrecord low since 2000; 1y −0.64 pts4.49% of generation2024
- Venezuela · Hydro Share of Electricity Generationrecord high since 2000; 1y +0.8 pts91.1% of generation2024
- Venezuela · Other Fossil Fuels Share of Electricity Generationrecord low since 2000; 1y −0.16 pts4.37% of generation2024
- Venezuela · Solar Share of Electricity Generationrecord high since 2000; 1y unchanged0.01% of generation2024
- Venezuela · Wind and Solar Share of Electricity Generation60th percentile since 2000; 1y unchanged0.04% of generation2024
- Venezuela · Wind Share of Electricity Generation62nd percentile since 2000; 1y unchanged0.03% of generation2024
Conflict and geopolitics2 of 6
- Venezuela · Organized-Violence Deaths (UCDP, annual)record low since 1989; 1y −83.3%2 deaths2025
- Venezuela · State-Based Conflict Deaths (UCDP, annual)record low since 1989; 1y unchanged0 deaths2025
Migration1 of 4
- U.S.-Born People Living in Venezuela (UN)record low since 199010,111 people2024
AI stance and technology1
- AI User Share: Venezuela (Microsoft AI Diffusion)1y +3.00 pts11.3% of people aged 15-642026-06-30
Climate and the physical world4 of 6
- Venezuela CO₂ Emissions (Global Carbon Budget)82nd percentile since 1870; 1y −3.0%116 Mt CO₂2024
- Venezuela Cumulative CO₂ Emissions (Global Carbon Budget)record high since 1870; 1y +1.5%7.89 Gt CO₂2024
- Venezuela · Plastic Emitted to the Ocean by Rivers · tonnes per year (2015)5,962.4 t/yr2015
- Venezuela · Share of Global River Plastic Emitted to the Ocean · % (2015)0.59% of world2015
Health and living standards1
- Venezuela · Deaths from Non-Communicable Diseases · % of all deaths68.7% of deaths2021
Peers
Elsewhere in South America
Alphabetical. Palanor does not rank countries.
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