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Costa Rica: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1950–2024 · 75 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2024
58.9%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
−1.5 pointsfrom 60.4%
Average, 2015–2024
55.3%10 years
Record high and low
67.0% (2021)low 14.6% (1958)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203158.6Forecast
203059.9Forecast
202960.8Forecast
202861.4Forecast
202761.4Forecast
202661.1Forecast
202560.4Forecast
202458.9
202360.4
202261.4
202167.0
202066.5
201956.1
201851.7
201747.1
201644.1
201539.8

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1950–2015
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1956–2023
  • Bordo1971–1997
  • Central American Monetary Council (historical)1983–2017
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1996–2024
  • IMF Global Debt Database2009–2024
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031

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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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