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Costa Rica: Real GDP

Millions of local currency · 1920–2025 · 106 observations · forecasts to 2031 · rGDP

2025
43.2 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+4.6%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+3.6%a year
In US dollars, 2025
$80.7 billionUS dollars

Real GDP

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
203153,004,016Forecast
203051,231,412Forecast
202949,518,084Forecast
202847,838,940Forecast
202746,196,164Forecast
202644,661,280Forecast
202543,161,692
202441,279,224
202339,659,936
202237,846,384
202135,886,548
202033,161,296
201934,594,040
201833,681,888
201732,747,642
201631,440,446

Sources

  • Maddison Project Database1920–2022
  • Smits, Woltjer & Ma1946–1976
  • Mitchell1960–1992
  • WDI (archive)1960–1997
  • World Development Indicators1960–2025
  • Central American Monetary Council (historical)1966–2018
  • FAO1970–2023
  • United Nations1970–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1991–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1991–2025
  • Central American Monetary Council1991–2025
  • World Bank Global Economic Monitor1991–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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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