Gross National Income (GNI)

Gross National Income (GNI) is the total income earned by residents of a country, consisting of gross domestic product plus net primary income from abroad, such as compensation of employees and investment income. This Latin Macro Watch indicator, published by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) on data.iadb.org, helps researchers, policymakers and journalists compare national income across Latin America and the Caribbean.

Coverage

Gross National Income is available for 23 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean at annual and quarterly frequency, covering 1994–2026. Values can be expressed in millions of USD, millions of domestic currency, as a percentage of GDP, PPP adjusted, at constant prices (national accounts deflator) and seasonally adjusted, with quarter-on-quarter (QoQ %) and year-on-year (YoY %) transformations also provided.

Sources

The series is built from IDB internal calculations based on national statistical agency data, including DANE (Colombia), INEGI - Mexico, INDEC - Argentina and Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (Brazil). Together these provide a consistent, comparable measure of national income across the region.

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Format	CSV
Language	en
Country	Argentina Bahamas Trinidad & Tobago Belize Costa Rica Dominican Republic Ecuador Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia El Salvador Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Panama Uruguay Venezuela Barbados Paraguay Peru Suriname
Data notes	What does Gross National Income (GNI) measure? GNI is the total income earned by a country's residents: gross domestic product plus net primary income from abroad, such as compensation of employees and investment income. How does GNI differ from GDP? GDP measures production within a country's borders, while GNI adds net primary income earned by residents from abroad (and subtracts income paid to nonresidents), reflecting income accruing to residents rather than domestic output. How many countries and time periods are covered? The indicator covers 23 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean at annual and quarterly frequency, spanning 1994 to 2026. What units and transformations are available? Values are available in millions of USD, millions of domestic currency, as a percentage of GDP, PPP adjusted, at constant prices and seasonally adjusted, with quarter-on-quarter (QoQ %) and year-on-year (YoY %) transformations. Where does the data come from? The series is compiled from IDB internal calculations based on national statistical agencies, including DANE (Colombia), INEGI - Mexico, INDEC - Argentina and Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (Brazil). How do I cite this indicator? Cite as: Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Latin Macro Watch — "Gross National Income (GNI)". data.iadb.org/dataset/latin-macro-watch-dataset.