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Costa Rica: Gross capital formation

Millions of local currency · 1950–2025 · 76 observations · forecasts to 2031 · inv

2025
8.18 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+1.4%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+3.7%a year
In US dollars, 2025
$16.2 billionUS dollars

Gross capital formation

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
203110,074,359Forecast
20308,928,072Forecast
20298,548,274Forecast
20288,438,950Forecast
20278,339,824Forecast
20267,752,970Forecast
20258,178,433
20248,067,661
20237,544,816
20228,444,987
20217,233,275
20205,705,212
20195,966,906
20186,553,628
20176,204,137
20166,055,094

Sources

  • Mitchell1950–1993
  • Penn World Table1950–2019
  • WDI (archive)1960–1997
  • World Development Indicators1960–2025
  • ECLAC1970–2021
  • United Nations1970–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1991–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1991–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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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