Analysis of the evolution the agricultural GDP in Latin America.

Abstract

The research aimed to classify the different Latin American countries from the so-called Agricultural GDP. For 20 countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Haití, Jamaica, México, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, El Salvador, Uruguay and Venezuela. The Agricultural GDP was obtained, according to the ISIC divisions 1-5, which includes forestry, hunting, fishing, crop cultivation and animal husbandry. The statistical treatment of the data allowed to cluster the countries in five groups. Most countries, 8 are grouped in a cluster that holds the indicator in a range of 4.72 to 8.56 and a standard deviation of 1.43. This group corresponds to countries that although compared to 1990 reduced the agricultural GDP from 2010, remain relatively stable this indicator. The group obtained suggests future research that could determine the possible relationship between this indicator and, for example, the percentage of jobs in agriculture.
Rural development, agricultural taxation and Agricultural GDP terms were collected in a database that is available to other researchers interested in these issues and grouped together a significant body of references that are important for the study of this issue.