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Costa Rica: Government consumption (% of GDP)

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

2025
14.6%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.1 pointsfrom 14.7%
Average, 2016–2025
16.0%10 years
Record high and low
17.7% (2020)low 5.63% (1950)

Government consumption (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
202614.3Forecast
202514.6
202414.7
202314.9
202215.4
202116.5
202017.7
201916.8
201816.2
201716.4
201616.7

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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