"Irvin Ibarra left Venezuela 10 years ago with nothing but the clothes on her back and a trade she couldn't practice. In Colombia, she started selling coffee on the street and today she runs a dance school in a working-class neighborhood of Bogota. Her story is one among hundreds of thousands that make up a diaspora of more than 7.9 million Venezuelans, one of the largest in the world."
"The analysis is based on research conducted since 2021 in Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Chile, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Peru, and Aruba, countries that are home to some 5.7 million of the Venezuelan migrants living in the region. According to the study, Venezuelans contribute an average of about 3% of total tax revenue in the countries analyzed. In Colombia alone, where nearly three million Venezuelans live, this contribution has exceeded $529 million."
Irvin Ibarra left Venezuela 10 years ago with only the clothes on her back and a trade she could not practice, later selling coffee and now running a dance school in Bogotá. A diaspora of more than 7.9 million Venezuelans exists, with 6.9 million living in the region and generating at least $10.6 billion in revenue. Migration in Latin America and the Caribbean has driven economic growth, creativity, and dynamism, and expanded opportunities through regularization and integration benefit all of society. Research since 2021 across eight countries covers about 5.7 million Venezuelan migrants. Venezuelans contribute about 3% of total tax revenue on average in analyzed countries; in Colombia their contribution exceeded $529 million and in Peru reached almost $527 million in 2024, equivalent to 1.35% of total tax.
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