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Costa Rica: Government expenditure

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

2024
9.27 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2023
+6.4%year on year
Average growth, 2014–2024
+6.0%a year

Government expenditure

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
203111,383,609Forecast
203011,013,491Forecast
202910,686,506Forecast
202810,380,257Forecast
202710,098,828Forecast
20269,707,500Forecast
20259,206,420Forecast
20249,268,029
20238,712,374
20228,598,200
20218,377,078
20208,135,524
20198,204,447
20186,805,046
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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