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Costa Rica: Gross fixed capital formation (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1950–2025 · 76 observations · forecasts to 2026 · finv_GDP

2025
16.0%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.0 pointsfrom 16.0%
Average, 2016–2025
17.0%10 years
Record high and low
23.7% (2008)low 13.2% (1954)

Gross fixed capital formation (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
202616.4Forecast
202516.0
202416.0
202316.2
202217.0
202116.9
202016.2
201916.3
201818.2
201718.2
201618.8

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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