What this is
The Argentina Economic Monitor collects the main statistics on Argentina's economy in one place: activity and GDP, international trade and the balance of payments, prices, money and the central bank, the exchange rate, banks, the public accounts and debt, labor and poverty, and the institutional setting: confidence surveys, the turnover of economic officials, economic freedom and the quality of democracy. Every chart can be explored, compared across presidencies, and downloaded as an image or as the underlying data.
The data are fetched automatically twice a day from each source, checked before they are accepted, and stored with their full revision history, so any chart can be rebuilt as it looked on an earlier date. The site has no editorial line on its charts: they show what the sources publish and how we transform it. Interpretation belongs elsewhere, in Economic Order.
How to use the Monitor
- Find a chart. Pick a topic from the menu, jump within a page with "On this page", or search every chart from the box at the top (press /).
- Change the measure. Most charts switch between the level and the change over the previous month or the same month a year earlier; some have a yearly view.
- Compare. Add or remove series with the buttons under a chart. "Base = 100" rebases every series to a month you choose, for example the start of a presidency; "By presidency" colors the line by term.
- Nominal or real. Peso amounts can be shown in pesos of the latest month, deflated by the CPI.
- Read the details. Hover over a chart for exact values, drag to zoom, double-click to zoom back out, or open "Show data table". Dotted lines mark provisional figures, such as months estimated before the official release.
- Take it with you. PNG saves the chart as an image; CSV saves the data as shown; "All data" saves every series of the card as published. Share copies a link to the chart, Embed gives the code to place it on another site, and Cite copies a reference.
- Check the method. Each chart links to the part of the Methodology that explains it, and every past version of every series is kept in the repository.
Who is behind it
The Monitor is a project of Economic Order, by Nicolás Cachanosky (ncachanosky.com; on X and LinkedIn). The code, the data and every past vintage are public in the project repository.
Sources
Most series are official statistics: INDEC, the BCRA, the Ministry of Economy's Finance and Treasury Secretariats, and, for comparison, the US Treasury. Institutional indicators come from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, the Fraser Institute and the V-Dem project, and the tenure of officials from a list kept by hand in the repository. Where no official series exists, or where an official one was compromised (consumer prices in 2007–2015), the site uses the best available alternative and says so on the chart. Market prices that no official body publishes (the informal and bond-market dollars, dollar futures) come from market-data services and are marked as unofficial wherever they appear. The Methodology page documents every source and calculation.
How to cite
Please cite the original source of each series (shown under every chart) and the Monitor for the transformation or chart:
Cachanosky, Nicolás. Argentina Economic Monitor. Economic Order. https://ncachanosky.github.io/argentina-economic-monitor/ (accessed date).
Each chart has its own address, the page's address plus the chart's anchor (for example, …/exchange-rate/#ind-fx_official), and links to pages that have been renamed keep working.
Using the data and charts
You are welcome to use the charts and the data you download here, including in publications and teaching, with credit to the original source and to the Monitor (see above). Embedding a chart with its "Embed" button keeps the credit and the link back automatically.
The underlying data remain subject to their sources' terms. Official statistics (INDEC, the BCRA, the Ministry of Economy, datos.gob.ar) are public. Some series are not: dollar futures prices (A3 Mercados), country risk (JP Morgan's EMBI, as published by Ámbito Financiero) and the market dollar quotes come from market-data services and should not be redistributed commercially; the V-Dem indices (via Our World in Data) are published under a Creative Commons Attribution licence; the Economic Freedom of the World index belongs to the Fraser Institute, which asks to be cited. Each chart names its source.
Licence
The site's charts, derived series and text are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0): they can be reused for any purpose, including commercially, with credit to the Monitor. The code is open source under the MIT License. Neither licence extends to third-party source data, which keep their owners' terms (see above).
Corrections and contact
If a number looks wrong, a source has changed, or a chart is unclear, please open an issue on GitHub; corrections are logged there in the open. For anything else, write through Economic Order.