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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Obes Rev. 2018 Apr 24;19(8):1028–1064. doi: 10.1111/obr.12694

Table 2A.

Total banner sales of leading fast food chains, café chains and restaurant retailers and gross domestic product (GDP) growth in selected Latin American countries (2008–2016) in nominal millions of USD

Waves Sales 2008 Sales 2011 Compound sales growth 2008–2011 (%) Real GDP growth 2008–2011 (%) Sales 2014 Compound sales growth 2011–2014 (%) Real GDP growth 2011–2014 (%) Sales 2016 Compound sales growth 2014–2016 (%) Real GDP growth 2014–2016 (%)
First wave
 Argentina 475 606 8 3 617 1 0 631 1 0
 Brazil 3,784 6,313 19 4 5,969 −2 2 9,153 24 −4
 Uruguay 60 67 4 6 69 1 4 63 −4 1
Second wave
 Costa Rica 200 233 5 3 312 10 4 283 −5 5
 Chile 306 352 5 3 456 9 4 458 0 2
 Colombia 151 275 22 4 458 19 4 696 23 3
 Ecuador 207 234 4 4 287 7 5 334 8 −1
Guatemala* 446 611 11 3 368 −16 4 372 1 4
Mexico 2,939 3,009 1 1 3,669 7 3 3,808 2 2
Third wave
Bolivia 25 28 5 4 29 62 6 43 21 4
 Nicaragua 43 54 8 2 41 −9 5 45 4 5
 Peru 170 227 10 5 389 20 5 381 −1 4
*

Guatemala’s fall in sales can be attributed to a fall in McDonald’s sales (which had reported a fall in sales in Latin America). If McDonald’s is taken away, the growth in sales would have been 5%.

Mexico’s data from 2014 to 2016 are approximate, as Planet Retail did not provide sales information on VIPS. Given that it is an important chain restaurant, we generated our own projections of its growth yet maintained the number of outlets.

We had to use 2010 data from Bolivia instead of 2011, as there seems to be an inconsistency with this year. Planet Retail reported 13 locations in 2011, whereas in 2010, it reported 26 locations, and in 2012, it reported 22.