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Costa Rica: Government consumption

Millions of local currency · 1950–2025 · 76 observations · forecasts to 2027 · gcons

2025
7.26 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+3.4%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+3.6%a year
In US dollars, 2025
$14.4 billionUS dollars

Government consumption

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20277,855,915Forecast
20267,623,967Forecast
20257,259,492
20247,017,877
20236,798,127
20226,782,124
20216,666,313
20206,461,386
20196,337,340
20185,832,848
20175,617,994
20165,356,183

Sources

  • Penn World Table1950–2019
  • World Development Indicators1960–2025
  • United Nations1970–2024
  • Central American Monetary Council (historical)1991–2017
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1991–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1991–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027

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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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