We develop indexes of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) for the Latin American region: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, and the Dominican Republic. The methodology closely follows the procedure described in the paper “Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty” by Scott R. Baker, Nicholas Bloom, and Steven J. Davis (QJE, 2016).
These indexes will be regularly updated in this webpage, and can be downloaded from this link 
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South America and Mexico:
We provide Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) indices for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
- For methodology details, see Andres Escayola et al. (2024)
for the main economies (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru) and Andres Escayola et al. (2025) 
(4 MB) for Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela. - For each country, three types of EPU are constructed:
- Local press (Spanish or Portuguese for Brazil)
- Foreign press (Anglo-Saxon and Spanish sources)
- Combined press, equally weighted across all sources
Caribbean Countries:
Indices for Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, and the Dominican Republic are developed in collaboration with the Executive Secretariat of the Central American Monetary Council (SECMCA), following Diakonova et al. (2025) and based on local press. For more information visit this page.
Updates
- Caribbean indicators: updated quarterly
- Latin American indicators: updated monthly
