Unemployment fell by about 1.4 percentage points in the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Brazil, Chile and Costa Rica, but rose by 0.8 percentage points or more in Cuba, Honduras and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. In nine of them, however, wage growth was lower than in 2009. The simple average of their inflation rates was 6.5%, or 2.8 percentage points more than in 2009.