{"id":83848,"date":"2026-02-26T14:48:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T20:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/?p=83848"},"modified":"2026-02-26T14:48:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T20:48:45","slug":"belizeans-feel-slightly-better-about-money-but-worry-about-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/belizeans-feel-slightly-better-about-money-but-worry-about-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Belizeans Feel Slightly Better About Money, But Worry About the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

Belizeans started 2026 with a slight lift in confidence about the economy. The national Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) stood at 48.3 in January, up 0.9% from December 2025, according to the Statistical Institute of Belize<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The increase suggests that people felt a little less pessimistic about their current situation and about making big purchases, even as optimism about the future dipped slightly.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sentiment about current economic conditions and household finances rose 3.8%, moving from 43.4 in December to 45.1 in January. This shows that more families felt their financial situation had improved compared to the previous month.<\/span><\/p>\n

Confidence about buying big-ticket items like homes, cars, and appliances showed a small improvement. While people remained cautious, they were slightly more willing to consider major purchases.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the other hand, optimism about the next twelve months fell 0.7%, suggesting that while people felt somewhat better about the present, they were less hopeful about the year ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n

Confidence varied across districts. Corozal saw the biggest improvement, up 7.1%, driven by stronger expectations and present conditions. Stann Creek, however, recorded the sharpest decline, dropping 13.7%, with residents more pessimistic about buying durable goods and the future outlook.<\/span><\/p>\n

By ethnic group, confidence rose sharply among people in the \u201cOther\u201d category and improved among the Maya community. Meanwhile, sentiment weakened among Mestizo\/Hispanic and Garifuna consumers, who reported lower confidence than the previous month.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Belizeans started 2026 with a slight lift in confidence about the economy. The national Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) stood at 48.3 in January, up 0.9% from December 2025, according to the Statistical Institute of Belize. The increase suggests that people felt a little less pessimistic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":83849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[484,449,444,475],"tags":[11049,11052,11053],"class_list":["post-83848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-economy","category-latest-news","category-news","tag-2026-02-26","tag-belizeans-feel-slightly-better-about-money","tag-but-worry-about-the-future"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83851,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83848\/revisions\/83851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}