San Juan, Puerto Rico. June 4, 2025. The Puerto Rico Statistics Institute (Institute) published a new interactive dashboard that presents key financial indicators for banking institutions operating in Puerto Rico and that are regulated by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). This tool consolidates historical data from 2001 to the present, incorporating the most recent data available, corresponding to the first quarter of 2025.

The dashboard integrates a set of eighteen (18) financial indicators presented in the form of ratios, grouped into two main categories: performance indicators (Performance Ratios) and financial condition indicators (Condition Ratios). A financial ratio is a measure that relates two numerical variables, providing a standardized indicator that facilitates comparative analysis over time and between different entities. Currently, the dashboard includes information from six (6) banking institutions operating in Puerto Rico under FDIC regulation.

Among the Performance Ratios What is included in the dashboard are: Yield on Earning Assets, Cost of Funding Earning Assets, Net Interest Margin, Noninterest Income to Average Assets, Noninterest Expense to Average Assets, Return on Assets (ROA), Return on Equity (ROE), Loan and Lease Loss Provision to Net Charge-Offs, and Earning Coverage of Net Loan Charge-Offs.

As for the Condition Ratios, the dashboard presents: Earning Assets to Total Assets, Loss Allowance to Noncurrent Loans and Leases, Noncurrent Loans to Loans, Net Loans and Leases to Deposits, Net Loans and Leases to Core Deposits, Leverage (Core Capital) Ratio, Common Equity Tier 1 Capital Ratio, Tier 1 Risk-Based Capital Ratio, and Total Risk-Based Capital Ratio.

As part of the analytical value provided by this tool, the Institute has developed the calculation of the industry average for each of the indicators included in the dashboard. This average provides an essential statistical reference framework for understanding the aggregate behavior of the sector and allows us to evaluate each institution in relation to the market in which it operates. This facilitates comparative analysis and monitoring of trends in the Puerto Rican banking industry.

“One of the fundamental contributions of this dashboard is to consolidate an extensive and continuous historical series, which allows us to identify structural trends and cycles in the banking industry. This long-term perspective is essential to understand the evolution of Puerto Rico's financial environment and to support more robust economic analyses,” said Dr. Ronald G. Hernández Maldonado, Manager of Statistical Projects at the Institute.

The dashboard is available in the Special Projects section of the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics portal, under the name of “Financial Indicators-Banks” or through the following direct link: VVisualizing Financial Indicators - Banks.

The Puerto Rico Statistics Institute is an autonomous governmental entity responsible for coordinating the Government's statistical production service to ensure that the data collection and statistics systems, on which public policies are based, are complete, reliable, and have quick and universal access. For more information you can write to preguntas@estadisticas.pr. They can also follow social networks through Facebook (@estadisticas .pr), X (@EstadisticasPR), LinkedIn (Institute of Statistics of Puerto Rico) and Instagram (@institutodeestadisticas) accounts.

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Carolina, Puerto Rico. May 12, 2025. The Puerto Rico Statistics Institute held the forum “From Violence to Dialogue: Understanding and Preventing the Social Crisis”, an event that brought together leading professionals from various disciplines to analyze, from an evidence-based approach, the multiple expressions of violence faced by Puerto Rico.

The program included presentations on armed violence, drug trafficking, intimate partner violence, femicide, education, social inequality and suicide. Each presentation was based on statistical evidence and proposals to strengthen public policies aimed at prevention.

The keynote speech was given by Dr. César A. Rey Hernández, who presented a sociological perspective on the links between inequality, education and violence. In his presentation “Whoever opens a school door closes a prison”, Dr. Rey highlighted that Puerto Rico is facing a profound crisis of school dropout, youth migration, child poverty and the deterioration of the social fabric. He said that in Puerto Rico there are more drug outlets than public schools, reflecting the limited opportunities available to young people and the impact of an expanding informal and illegal economy. Dr. Rey emphasized the urgency of an educational project with a humanistic approach, capable of responding to the ethical and social challenges of the present.

Another of the forum's outstanding topics was suicide prevention, in which demographer Raúl Figueroa Rodríguez, consultant to the Commission for Suicide Prevention, offered an analysis of recent trends, revealing that Puerto Rico reports an annual average of 265 suicides, of which 85% are men, pointing out that the highest rates are recorded in municipalities in central Puerto Rico and in its island municipalities, and that more than 50% of cases are among people over 50 years of age. Figueroa presented the Puerto Rico Socioeconomic Vulnerability Index for Suicide (IVSS-PR), a tool developed to guide community interventions, resource allocation and evidence-based public policy formulation.

During the event, issues such as domestic violence, feminicide, possession of weapons, drug trafficking and the role of public health in preventing violence were also addressed. The program included the participation of experts in epidemiology, criminal justice, demography and officials from state and federal agencies, who shared updated data and multisectoral strategies.

“The purpose of this forum was to provide in-depth and rigorous analysis that serves as a basis for making informed decisions. Our responsibility as an Institute is to ensure that data is at the service of the life, security and dignity of all people in Puerto Rico,” said Dr. Orville M. Disdier Flores, Executive Director of the Institute of Statistics, who added that “this forum reinforces the Institute's commitment to continue generating and disseminating reliable information that allows us to understand the roots of violence, promote social dialogue and strengthen the formulation of evidence-based public policies.”

The Puerto Rico Statistics Institute is an autonomous governmental entity responsible for coordinating the Government's statistical production service to ensure that the data collection and statistics systems, on which public policies are based, are complete, reliable, and have quick and universal access.

For more information you can write to preguntas@estadisticas.pr. They can also follow social networks through Facebook (@estadisticas .pr), X (@EstadisticasPR), LinkedIn (Institute of Statistics of Puerto Rico) and Instagram (@institutodeestadisticas) accounts.

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UNESCO releases statistics on investment in education in Puerto Rico. The first published data reveal that our government system invested 6.4% of its GDP in education