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.

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PRESS RELEASE
DR. MARIO MARAZZI‐SANTIAGO
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

May 9, 2018

STATISTICS INSTITUTE PUBLISHES PUERTO RICO'S TOXIC EMISSIONS PROFILE

In this way, a contribution is made to facilitate access and knowledge of statistics on the toxic waste emitted by establishments in Puerto Rico, which are reported annually to the EPA.

San Juan, PR, May 9, 2018 — In Puerto Rico, 101 facilities handled a total of 33,165,925 pounds of toxic substances during 2016, some 4,330,512 pounds (13%) less than in 2015. Of these, 17,836,676 pounds (54%) were recycled, as revealed by the Puerto Rico Toxic Emissions Profile conducted by the Puerto Rico Statistics Institute (Institute).

The Puerto Rico Toxic Emissions Profile, the first of its kind carried out by the Institute, summarizes data from the Toxic Emissions Inventory (TRI) that U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been published annually since 1987. Its purpose is to publicize what toxic waste establishments in Puerto Rico emit in order to help the public understand how their communities and environments may be affected.

The TRI emerged from the need for communities to know what toxic waste is being managed around them, and how it is available, so that people can prepare in the event of an environmental emergency. The information comes from estimates made by the facilities themselves based on production. They are reported on an annual form conducted by the EPA.

The federal law that creates the TRI, the Environmental Planning and Community Right to Know Act (EPCRA), approved in 1986, represented a paradigm shift in environmental regulation, of an end-of-cycle type (end-of-pipe), whose focus is on remedying the production of pollutants, to an open data approach, where the public is given the tools to pressure companies to reduce their emissions.

Here are some of the findings from the publication:

• Since 1987, toxic waste released in Puerto Rico has fallen by 87%.
• Of the total toxic waste handled in 2016, just over half (54%) was recycled.
• Of the total toxic waste emitted, 81% was emitted inside the facilities, and of this, 98% was emitted into the air.
• Of the total toxic waste emitted within the facilities, about a third was sulfuric acid, 100% of which came from the industrial sector of generation, transmission and distribution of electrical energy.

In addition, the report details that the 101 facilities in Puerto Rico that reported data to the TRI during 2016 cover a total of 43 municipalities and are generally located close to coastal areas. Guaynabo, Manati and San Juan had the highest number of facilities participating in the TRI in 2016. However, if municipalities are grouped by amount of toxic emissions, Guayama, Salinas and Manati rank in the first three places.

It is important to clarify that the data presented do not contain all the toxic waste managed, nor all the facilities that handled such waste in Puerto Rico during 2016, since the TRI only requires information from those facilities that meet three main criteria. These are: having at least 10 full-time employees; being federal facilities, or classified under one of the industrial sectors to which the TRI requires them to report; being manufacturing sectors that handle over 25,000 pounds of any of the substances for which the TRI requires reporting data and, if they belong to a non-manufacturing sector, must exceed 10,000 pounds.

In addition to publishing the Toxic Emissions Profile, fulfilling its function of facilitating access to the statistics related to this report, the Institute contributes by making available the complete historical series of the TRI in https://datos.estadisticas.pr/dataset/tri and through the Internet of Toxic Emissions application in your Community http://emisionestoxicaspr.org.

To view the full report of the Toxic Emissions Profile visit the following link: Puerto Rico Toxic Emissions Profile 2016.

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. The IEPR has in its inventory, accessible through https://estadisticas.pr.gov, about 300 statistical products. In addition, it is a custodian and provides access to over 100 data sets or “data sets” through https://data.pr.gov and to over 40 tables and more than 6 thousand indicators through: https://www.indicadores.pr.

In addition, as the leading entity of the Puerto Rico SDC, the IEPR manages the SDC portal, where you can find the main statistical reports and publications of the U.S. Census Bureau on Puerto Rico, specifically those that are most in demand, such as annual population estimates; the Puerto Rico Community Survey (Puerto Rico Community Survey) and official statistics on Puerto Rico's 10-year population and housing censuses, among others. The Puerto Rico SDC portal can be accessed through: https://censo.estadisticas.pr.

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They reveal an increasing trend in the incidence of Type 1 Diabetes in the

pediatric population in Puerto Rico

At the launch of the first Pediatric Type 1 Diabetes Platform in Puerto Rico

The incidence rate of Type 1 Diabetes in the pediatric population (new cases per 100,000 people between 0 and 18 years of age) shows a tendency to increase over the years, with 2009 being the year with the lowest rate (20.5), and 2021 the year with the highest rate (38.4). Although there are variations, on average, the incidence rate shows an increasing trend of 1% per year. In the most recent available year, 2022, the incidence rate was 34.2 new cases per 100,000 people between 0 and 18 years old. These data were revealed during the presentation of the first Pediatric Type 1 Diabetes Platform in Puerto Rico, developed by the Statistics Institute of Puerto Rico in partnership with the Pediatric Diabetes Foundation. This platform provides essential statistical data for understanding and addressing Type 1 Diabetes in Puerto Rico and is available at: https://estadisticas.pr/en/diabetes-tipo-1.

“These data are essential to be able to establish public policies for management, allocation of funds and resources, for researchers, doctors and for the families of patients living with diabetes. We needed an entity such as the Puerto Rico Statistics Institute with the expertise and willingness to help us with the statistical process, which resulted in an important alliance of will between the Foundation and the Institute. Today we can present the result of the collaboration between the Foundation and the Institute,” said Bernardo Maldonado, president of the Board of Directors of the Puerto Rico Pediatric Diabetes Foundation.

According to the executive director of the Institute of Statistics, Dr. Orville M. Disdier, this platform represents an essential advance in the understanding and management of Type 1 Diabetes in the pediatric population. “These findings, presented for the first time on an interactive platform, provide a detailed view of the situation of Type 1 Pediatric Diabetes in Puerto Rico, which is essential for guiding public health policies and resource allocation,” said Dr. Disdier.

The findings detailed on the platform reveal significant data for the period from 2009 to 2022. Among these, the following stand out:

• Between 2009 and 2022, a total of 2,850 people between 0 and 18 years of age were diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes for the first time. On average, 204 cases of Type 1 Diabetes are diagnosed annually in people 18 years of age or younger.
• Most of the cases (67%) diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes for the first time were between 5 and 14 years old. The average age of these cases was approximately 10 years.
• Overall, 53% of the cases were male and the remaining 47% were female.

In addition, Mariana Benítez Hilera, executive director of the Pediatric Diabetes Foundation, emphasized the Foundation's work in collecting unique data since 2008. This is thanks to a collaborative alliance with the hospitals where these patients are diagnosed and pediatric endocrinologists. “Once a child is diagnosed with diabetes, the first help they receive at the hospital is from our Foundation, which in turn helps us to have contact with their family right from the start and help them throughout the education process,” said Benítez Hilera.

Dr. Marina Ruiz, a pediatric endocrinologist, emphasized that Type 1 Diabetes is the type of diabetes that most affects the pediatric population. “It's an autoimmune condition that has no cure and can't be prevented. The condition requires a multidisciplinary team, such as the one found at the Pediatric Diabetes Foundation, to achieve successful management. This is the first time that statistics on diabetes in children aged 0 to 18 have been generated in Puerto Rico, which will help position our island on the world map with validated and reliable data. This will lead to the development of clinical studies in the near future to continue expanding our knowledge of the condition. In addition, it helps to carry the message to communities so that they have symptoms present and thus avoid acute and/or chronic complications.” said Ruiz.

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