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Acevedo: US Latinos would be world's fifth-largest economy as a standalone country

Beatriz Acevedo · HIBT Lab! mitú and SUMA Wealth: Beatriz Acevedo · Dec 15, 2022 · at 34:48

Beatriz Acevedo, founder of SUMA Wealth, discusses the macroeconomic power and market opportunity of the U.S. Latino demographic with Guy Raz.

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“So, you know, if we took Latinos and said, let's, let that be a different country, right? We'd be the fifth largest economy in the world.”

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The claim, plainly

If U.S. Latinos were an independent country, their economic output would rank as the fifth largest economy in the world.

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Assessment

The claim directly reflects the findings of the 2022 U.S. Latino GDP Report, published in September/October 2022 by researchers from UCLA (Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture) and California Lutheran University, sponsored by the Latino Donor Collaborative (LDC). The report calculated that U.S. Latino gross domestic product reached $2.8 trillion in 2020, which placed the cohort as the 5th largest economy globally if measured as an independent country, trailing only the United States, China, Japan, and Germany, and surpassing the United Kingdom, India, and France. Subsequent annual editions of the report through 2025 continued to find that U.S. Latino economic output ranked 5th globally.

The 2022 LDC U.S. Latino GDP Report (published Sept/Oct 2022 by UCLA and California Lutheran University) calculated U.S. Latino economic output at $2.8 trillion for 2020.
The 2022 report specifically ranked the U.S. Latino GDP as the 5th largest economy in the world, behind only the U.S., China, Japan, and Germany.
Subsequent reports published in 2023, 2024, and 2025 confirmed that U.S. Latino GDP continued to hold the 5th largest global rank.

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[1] latinodonorcollaborative.org [2] frbsf.org [3] pacbiztimes.com [4] laverne.edu [5] latinodonorcollaborative.org [6] seidmaninstitute.com [7] languageline.com [8] ucla.edu

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