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Published on Monday, February 16, 2026 | Updated on Thursday, February 19, 2026

Global | Informe Anual de Riesgo País 2026

Summary

Las medidas geoeconómicas de EEUU como barreras comerciales, sanciones y tarifas, junto con los importantes acontecimientos geopolíticos que se han producido a lo largo del año 2025, han provocado un fuerte aumento de la incertidumbre en materia de política económica y de las medidas de aversión al riesgo a nivel mundial

Key points

  • Key points:
  • Mostly positive rating cycle in Emerging Economies (EE), with a mixed direction in Advanced Economies (AE). Changes have been clearly positive in Peripheral Europe, while other large AE such as the US and France have been downgraded
  • Sovereign spreads have continued narrowing or remained stable across the board, extending the previous two years trend.
  • In 2025, macroeconomic vulnerabilities kept improving across the board (GDP growth and lower inflation), and even fiscal vulnerabilities like public debt levels seem to be improving in regions like Peripheral Europe where they had stubbornly remained elevated for several years.
  • However, there are noticeable exceptions like the US and China, who not only share being the largest economies, but also having elevated and growing levels of public debt, and worrisome fiscal deficits. These two economies, together with France, also have in common concerningly high levels of private leverage and an excess of private debt above what we estimate as their equilibrium levels.
  • We are incorporating into our analysis a newly developed measure of geopolitical risk, which differentiates from the most commonly used geopolitical indicators in its structural viewpoint.

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Documents and files

Report (PDF)

Country Risk Report 2026

English - February 18, 2026

Report (PDF)

Country Risk Report 2026

Spanish - February 18, 2026

Authors

AU
Alfonso Ugarte BBVA Research - Principal Economist
DS
David Sarasa Flores BBVA Research - Economist

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