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Latin America & the Caribbean

In FY20, our long-term investments in Latin America and the Caribbean totaled about $7.1 billion, including $4.0 billion mobilized from other investors. Our clients provided 7.6 million loans to micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises, totaling about $80 billion.

 

Project Financing and Portfolio, by Region

Latin America & the Caribbean
$ millions, for the year ending June 30 FY20
Long-term investment commitments 3,165
Loans 2,715
Equity 235
Guarantees and risk management 215
Core mobilization1 3,969
Total commitments 7,134
Portfolio Exposure2 for IFC’s account 12,085
Committed portfolio for loan syndications3 4,950
Total Portfolio Exposure 17,035

 

  1. Including Loan Syndications (B-Loans, Parallel Loans, and MCPP Loans), IFC Initiatives, AMC Funds, Advisory Mobilization, as applicable for this region.
  2. Portfolio exposure is defined as the sum of the (i) committed exposure for IFC’s debt investments, (ii) fair market value of IFC’s equity investments, and (iii) total undisbursed equity commitments.
  3. Including B-Loans, Agented Parallel Loans, MCPP Loans, Unfunded Risk Participations (URPs), and Credit Insurance Policies (CIPs). Amounts include regional shares of investments that are officially classified as global projects.

Development Outcome Reach

Latin America & the Caribbean Portfolio
  CY18 CY19
MSME loans (# of loans)1 14,031,649 7,598,575
MSME loans (amount in $ millions)1 98,809 76,950
Power generation (millions of people) 9.9 7.1
Gas distribution (millions of people) 0.0 0.0
Water distribution (millions of people) 6.7 0.0
Power distribution (millions of people)2 2.6 2.7
Phone connections (millions of people)3 24.0 21.4
Farmers reached 148,344 155,035
Patients served 5,270,659 3,889,856
Students reached 585,240 482,446
Employment 302,151 342,552
Domestic purchase of goods and services ($ millions) 13,802 12,783
Payments to governments ($ millions) 5,033 6,250

 

  1. Portfolio reach figures represent the micro, small, and medium enterprise outstanding loan portfolio of IFC’s financial institution clients with MSME-oriented finance.
  2. One client in Latin America & the Caribbean contributed 2.7 million to power distribution customers reached.
  3. One client in Latin America & the Caribbean contributed 19.1 million to phone connection customers reached.

Largest Country Exposures1

Latin America & the Caribbean Portfolio Exposure2 ($ millions)
Rank within Region Country FY19 FY20
1 Brazil 2,860 2,828
2 Colombia 1,503 1,706
3 Mexico 1,574 1,555


Based on IFC's account, as of June 30


  1. Excludes individual country shares of regional and global projects.
  2. Portfolio exposure is defined as the sum of the (i) committed exposure for IFC’s debt investments, (ii) fair market value of IFC’s equity investments, and (iii) total undisbursed equity commitments.