VENEZUELA'S ECONOMY SHRANK 16.5%, NIGERIA BELOW 2%IN 2016

VENEZUELA'S ECONOMY SHRANK 16.5%, NIGERIA BELOW 2% IN 2016 BY Nwafor Polycarp In terms of economic recession, Venezuela has experienced better than any Nigeria experienced in 2016. Venezuelan queued to buy essentials during their recession in 2016 The Latin American country's economy shrank a massive 16.5 percent in 2016, according to an official government filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). About the same time, Nigeria's economy shrank between 1.5 to 2 per cent in figures published by the National Bureau of Statistics and the World Bank. Venezuela, at oil-rich but impoverished country attributed to the contraction of 9.9 percent in the oil sector and 16.1 percent in the non-oil economy, the same factor that caused Nigeria's recession, while it lasted. The 150-page report, received on Thursday by the SEC, reported inflation at 274.4 percent, and an unemployment rate of 7.5 percent in the calendar year ending on December 31, 2016. Venezuelan imports in 2016, when totaled $ 16.4 billion, helped the $ 33.3 billion last year. ,"Since 2015, there has been increasing political and social unrest due to shortages of basic consumer goods as a result of a drop in domestic food production; limited access to imports as a result of currency restrictions; smuggling; hoarding and other distribution problems, "the report noted. It therefore ranked 11.3 percent of the population as "extremely poor" in 2014, up from 7.1 percent in 2012. The SEC requires detailed financial filing from foreign governments that issue their debt in the US. Venezuela is going through an acute economic crisis in 2014 with the fall in oil prices, the source of 96 percent of its export revenue. There is a major shortage of food and medicines and a hyper-inflationary spiral that, according to analysts, will exceed 2,000 percent in 2017

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