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Crisis in Venezuela

Active conflict

2010
Started
540+
Total deaths (estimate)

An ongoing socioeconomic and political crisis began in Venezuela during the presidencies of Hugo Chávez, Nicolás Maduro as well as Delcy Rodríguez. It has been marked by hyperinflation, starvation, disease, crime, and mortality rates, resulting in massive emigration. Food shortages and hyperinflation have ended, but inflation remains high. It is the worst economic crisis in Venezuela's history and considered by some sources as more severe than the Great Depression in the United States, the 1985–1994 Brazilian economic crisis, or the 2008–2009 hyperinflation in Zimbabwe. In 2019, the Institute of International Finance called it the single largest economic collapse outside of war in 45 years.

Deaths by year

20252,602
2026409

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