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Costa Rica: Government debt

Millions of local currency · 1936–2024 · 89 observations · forecasts to 2031 · govdebt

2024
28.8 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2023
+1.3%year on year
Average growth, 2014–2024
+10.6%a year

Government debt

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
203142,409,758Forecast
203040,687,790Forecast
202938,892,607Forecast
202837,009,312Forecast
202735,030,458Forecast
202633,029,684Forecast
202530,712,457Forecast
202428,796,888
202328,428,788
202227,524,864
202127,010,774
202024,259,734
201921,238,240
201818,625,789
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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