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Costa Rica: General government debt

Millions of local currency · 1950–2024 · 75 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt

2024
29.3 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2023
+2.0%year on year
Average growth, 2014–2024
+10.8%a year

General government debt

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
203142,642,716Forecast
203040,911,290Forecast
202939,106,249Forecast
202837,212,609Forecast
202735,222,884Forecast
202633,194,827Forecast
202531,300,696Forecast
202429,348,436
202328,762,283
202228,223,522
202127,271,988
202024,419,523
201921,348,965
201818,669,831
201716,163,486
201614,122,558
201512,004,110

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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