{"id":309605,"date":"2026-08-03T16:14:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T10:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/?p=309605"},"modified":"2026-08-03T16:15:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T10:30:06","slug":"this-country-has-faced-the-worlds-worst-recession-gdp-has-fallen-by-80-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/this-country-has-faced-the-worlds-worst-recession-gdp-has-fallen-by-80-2\/","title":{"rendered":"This country has faced the world&#8217;s worst recession, GDP has fallen by 80%."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. For many years, the United States, the world&#8217;s largest economy, has been facing recession fears. However, the probability of a recession this year has now dropped to just 6 percent. Which is the lowest so far. <\/p>\n<p>Do you know which country has faced the worst recession in the world? The answer is &#8216;Venezuela&#8217;. The South American country experienced a recession from 2013 to 2021. During which time it lost 75 to 80 percent of the country&#8217;s GDP. Interestingly, the country also has the world&#8217;s largest oil reserves. <\/p>\n<p>Syria suffered a recession from 2011 to 2016. During which 63 percent of the country&#8217;s GDP was lost. <\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe suffered a recession from 2000 to 2008 and lost 50% of its GDP in these eight years. <\/p>\n<p>In the 1990s, Russia also experienced an economic downturn. As a result, its economy shrank by 40 to 45 percent. <\/p>\n<p>Like Russia, Cuba suffered an economic downturn in the 1990s. Its GDP fell by 35 percent. <\/p>\n<p>Argentina, once one of the richest countries in the world, was in the grip of a severe recession from 1998 to 2002 and has yet to fully recover. In four years, its economy suffered a 28 percent deficit. <\/p>\n<p>The U.S. economy was in the grip of a recession from 1929 to 1933. It&#8217;s called the Great Depression. During this period, US GDP fell by 28 percent. <\/p>\n<p>The economies of Greece, Latvia, Germany, Ukraine, Indonesia, Finland, Spain and Japan also experienced severe recessions. In the 1990s, Japan&#8217;s economy was so weak that its growth came to zero for many years. \u2013Agency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. For many years, the United States, the world&#8217;s largest economy, has been facing recession fears. However, the probability of a recession this year has now dropped to just 6 percent. Which is the lowest so far. Do you know which country has faced the worst recession in the world? The answer is &#8216;Venezuela&#8217;. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":222757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45044,45159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news-en","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309606,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309605\/revisions\/309606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media\/222757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}