Puerto Rico trade surplus falls to $4.2B in fiscal ’25
August 22, 2025
Exports down 7% as imports grow, lowest since 2010. #NewsismyBusiness
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Census: Puerto Rico’s 65+ population doubles 15-and-under group
June 28, 2024
This was observed in 34 municipalities according to estimates by age for the year 2023. #NewsismyBusiness
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Outmigration from Puerto Rico to US mainland slows
December 12, 2023
New data reveal shifts in emigration trends. #NewsismyBusiness
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Puerto Rico’s working women urged to participate in survey
June 5, 2023
The Women’s Advocate Office and Institute of Statistics join forces to better understand and address the unique needs they faced. #NewsismyBusiness
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Institute of Statistics launches free subscription service for recent reports
March 8, 2023
The service is aimed at anyone interested in obtaining statistical data.
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Institute of Statistics renews agreement with State Data Center program
April 8, 2021
The Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics announced the renewal of its agreement with the US Census Bureau’s State Data Center program through 2026, which will allow the local agency to continue distributing statistical reports and publications by the federal entity. Those reports include the Puerto Rico Community Survey, official statistics on the decennial population and […]
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Census: 50% or more of residents in 36 P.R. towns live in poverty
December 20, 2019
During the 2014-2018 period, 50% or more of the population in 36 of Puerto Rico’s 78 municipalities lived in poverty. Of those 36 towns, in six of them — Maricao, Guánica, Adjuntas, Lajas, Jayuya and Comerío — the level of poverty reached between 60% to 64%, according to the latest statistics revealed in the U.S. […]
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Statistics Institute joins forces with 2 agencies to estimate P.R.’s GDP
September 11, 2019
The Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics has joined forces with the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the Puerto Rico Planning Board to continue developing a project to estimate the island’s gross domestic product. To move the initiative forward, the Institute’s Interim Executive Director Orville Disdier traveled to the BEA’s Washington D.C.’s offices last week to […]
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Study: 33% of P.R.’s 18+ population faces ‘food insecurity’
June 5, 2019
About 33% of Puerto Rico’s population aged 18 and older are at risk of facing food insecurity, according to the findings of the Puerto Rico Food Security Survey released by the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics. Similarly, 21.7% of those interviewed said in the 12 months prior to the study, there were times when they […]
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P.R. Institute of Statistics offers courses to improve data gathering skills
April 1, 2019
Looking to expand the statistical information on a number of topics and educate about statistics and tools available to manage and access them, the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics is hosting a series of workshops and webinars. While the workshops requiring attendance target mainly government employees and representatives of non-governmental entities responsible for keeping statistics […]
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P.R. has 2,000+ creative industry establishments, Institute of Statistics says
December 18, 2018
The “Puerto Rico Creative Industries Report 2017” confirmed that most establishments (59.3 percent) were characterized by belonging to the category of having one to four employees.
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Op-Ed: Statistical independence as an antidote to mistrust
December 13, 2018
To ensure that the Institute had freedom of action and was truly autonomous, the Institute’s law created a Board of Directors.
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47 scientific organizations urge Rosselló not to dismantle Statistics Institute
May 8, 2018
Forty-seven stateside and international scientific organizations and professional societies sent a letter to Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló urging him to keep the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics autonomous and independent.
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P.R. Institute of Statistics board meets to resume pending work
March 14, 2018
The board of directors of the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics met for the first time in seven months on Tuesday, after the San Juan Superior Court issued a cease and desist order preventing Gov. Ricardo Rosselló from interfering with the agency.
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