Changes in inventories (including work-in-progress) consist of changes in: (a) stocks of outputs that are still held by the units that produced them prior to their being further processed, sold, delivered to other units or used in other ways; and (b) stocks of products acquired from other units that are intended to be used for intermediate consumption or for resale without further processing; they are measured by the value of the entries into inventories less the value of withdrawals and the value of any recurrent losses of goods held in inventories.
| 1970 | 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Costa Rica | -1,6 | 1,0 | 1,0 | -1,0 | 0,1 | 0,2 | -0,1 | -0,5 | -0,7 | -0,2 | -0,2 | 0,8 |
| El Salvador | 1,3 | 0,1 | 0,0 | 2,3 | 1,9 | 1,5 | 1,2 | -0,3 | 0,8 | 0,1 | -0,3 | 1,4 |
| Guatemala | -0,7 | -0,3 | 0,6 | 1,4 | -0,9 | 0,4 | 0,2 | -0,2 | -0,1 | 0,3 | 0,4 | -0,2 |
| Honduras | 1,0 | 1,2 | 2,5 | 2,7 | 0,3 | 1,6 | 0,2 | -1,8 | -0,1 | 1,4 | 1,2 | 0,7 |
| Nicaragua | 2,9 | 0,7 | 4,4 | 3,8 | 3,7 | 6,4 | 2,9 | 2,6 | 1,5 | 1,6 | 1,4 | 0,9 |
| Panama | 5,8 | 7,8 | 2,9 | 1,5 | 8,6 | 7,5 | 8,2 | 4,7 | 3,7 | 3,3 | 3,2 | 3,0 |