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Costa Rica: Gross capital formation (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1950–2025 · 76 observations · forecasts to 2031 · inv_GDP

2025
15.5%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.4 pointsfrom 15.9%
Average, 2016–2025
17.0%10 years
Record high and low
24.6% (2008)low 11.7% (1964)

Gross capital formation (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203114.7Forecast
203013.9Forecast
202914.1Forecast
202814.8Forecast
202715.4Forecast
202616.0Forecast
202515.5
202415.9
202315.3
202217.7
202118.6
202016.2
201916.1
201818.4
201718.1
201618.9

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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