Venezuela’s 2016 meltdown among the worst on record

Unconfirmed reports suggesting that Venezuelan GDP contracted by a staggering 19% in 2016 would mean that the country experienced the biggest one-year fall in output of any major EM in modern history. Last year’s inflation rate of 490% was merely the fifth highest of modern EM crises.

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