Ravaged by coronavirus, Mexico’s GDP falls record 17.3% in second quarter

Mexico’s economy contracted by double digits in the second quarter as the coronavirus pandemic ravaged Latin America’s second-largest economy and shut factories, kept shoppers and tourists at home and upended trade, data showed on Thursday.

GDP fell 17.3% in the second quarter from the previous three months in seasonally adjusted terms, the sharpest drop on record, preliminary data from the INEGI national statistics agency showed.

“The large quarterly contraction of gross domestic product estimated for the second quarter 2020, -17.3% Q/Q, is the biggest in the history of this . . .