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Costa Rica: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1956–2024 · 69 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp_GDP

2024
18.6%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
+0.3 pointsfrom 18.3%
Average, 2015–2024
19.5%10 years
Record high and low
22.1% (2020)low 10.2% (1958)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203115.6Forecast
203016.1Forecast
202916.6Forecast
202817.1Forecast
202717.6Forecast
202617.9Forecast
202517.8Forecast
202418.6
202318.3
202218.7
202120.6
202022.1
201921.6
201818.9
201719.2
201618.8
201518.8

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1956–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1990–2024
  • ECLAC2000–2020
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2002–2024
  • 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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