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Costa Rica: Imports (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1936–2025 · 90 observations · forecasts to 2031 · imports_GDP

2025
33.0%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.3 pointsfrom 32.7%
Average, 2016–2025
33.0%10 years
Record high and low
48.1% (1998)low 18.9% (1950)

Imports (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203135.3Forecast
203035.0Forecast
202934.6Forecast
202834.2Forecast
202733.8Forecast
202633.5Forecast
202533.0
202432.7
202333.6
202239.8
202134.6
202028.2
201931.4
201833.2
201732.3
201630.9

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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