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Costa Rica: General government expenditure

Millions of local currency · 1956–2024 · 69 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp

2024
9.09 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2023
+5.6%year on year
Average growth, 2014–2024
+5.8%a year

General government expenditure

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
203111,321,421Forecast
203010,953,324Forecast
202910,628,125Forecast
202810,323,548Forecast
202710,043,658Forecast
20269,659,206Forecast
20259,033,403Forecast
20249,093,854
20238,611,355
20228,385,357
20218,296,842
20208,082,289
20198,161,896
20186,788,993
20176,579,128
20166,012,426
20155,659,970

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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