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Costa Rica: Government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1892–2024 · 127 observations · forecasts to 2031 · 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
74.4% (1949)low 2.32% (1893)

Government debt (% of GDP)

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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

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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