Today’s macroeconomic context is putting LAC’s past socio-economic progress to the test. OECD data and statistics provide reliable information to guide the region’s economic reform.

In the aftermath of the commodity price slowdown, attraction and retention of investment remain a priority in the LAC region. To inform investment policy, the OECD compiles and disseminates reliable and up-to-date statistics essential for a meaningful interpretation of investment trends.

Many LAC countries now take part in the PISA and PIACC assessments. Benchmarking performance can help countries improve their education, training and skills systems to achieve greater economic growth, social inclusion and equality.

The LAC region has seen substantial change over the past two decades regarding digital services. The OECD provides concrete data to address important issues related to internet access, affordability, infrastructure and demand.

Gender inequality remains a pressing issue in the LAC region. The OECD is a global leader in producing internationally comparative data on gender inequalities, covering key issues such as education, employment, work-life balance and entrepreneurship.

The OECD works with the LAC region to improve taxation and public expenditure policies by providing comparable, reliable and timely tax revenue data for 25 LAC countries over nearly three decades.

The OECD is helping LAC countries identify policies to make health spending more sustainable, whilst continuing to expand health care quality and coverage. The first edition of the LAC Health at a Glance presents key indicators on health and health systems in 33 LAC countries based on the latest comparable data across almost 100 indicators.

For many years, the OECD has been developing better well-being metrics. Effectively measuring well-being can help LAC countries define policy intervention for more inclusive and cohesive societies.

LAC countries are working with the OECD to identify the strengths and weaknesses of their public governance systems and propose key areas for reform. OECD data covers 27 LAC countries addressing topics like transparency, integrity, government and economic growth.

Investing in green growth is a good opportunity for LAC to foster alternative, internal sources of growth that can lead to the creation of new jobs and investment opportunities while securing a sustainable future. Browse a broad range of environmental indicators from the OECD, as well as energy indicators from the International Energy Agency.

LAC countries contribute to the OECD’s trade facilitation indicators (TFIs), the OECD's Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (STRI) and the OECD-WTO Trade in Value Added (TiVA) database, enabling benchmarking against a wide range of regions and countries.

The OECD has developed benchmarking tools to provide independent and rigorous assessments of the policy environment for SMEs across a number of policy areas, as well as guidance for policy reform and implementation on the basis of these assessments.