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Costa Rica: Real GDP

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

2025
42.5 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+4.6%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+3.5%a year
In US dollars, 2025
$79.5 billionUS dollars

Real GDP

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
203152,320,828Forecast
203050,571,072Forecast
202948,879,824Forecast
202847,222,324Forecast
202745,600,724Forecast
202644,030,364Forecast
202542,484,280
202440,631,356
202339,079,532
202237,178,972
202135,560,440
202032,945,928
201934,416,676
201833,604,288
201732,747,642
201631,440,442

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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