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Costa Rica: Central government expenditure

Millions of local currency · 1936–2025 · 90 observations · cgovexp

2025
9.11 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
−0.3%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+3.7%a year

Central government expenditure

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20259,113,045
20249,138,586
20238,703,441
20228,399,144
20218,343,880
20207,908,866
20197,559,933
20187,971,116
20176,636,537
20166,562,019

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Costa Rica documentation (PDF)

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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