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Costa Rica — GDP growth
GDP Growth (Annual %) for Costa Rica, 1961–2025.
Latest value · 2025
4.56%
GDP Growth (Annual %) · annual % · +142.7% since 1961
GDP growth for Costa Rica was 4.56% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 65 years, from 1961 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 9.20% in 1992. The lowest was -7.29% in 1982 (about -1.6× the latest value). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 1.39% per year.
Costa Rica ranks 61 of 212 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 29%. The median for Latin America & Caribbean is 3.38%, so Costa Rica sits above it. It peaked in 1992 and has fallen 50% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved up 25%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
4.56%
First (1961)
1.88%
Change
+142.7%
Highest
9.20%
in 1992
Lowest
-7.29%
in 1982
Average
4.48%
Annual growth (CAGR)
1.39%
Years of data
65
Recent years
| Year | annual % |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4.56% |
| 2024 | 4.08% |
| 2023 | 4.79% |
| 2022 | 5.46% |
| 2021 | 8.22% |
| 2020 | -4.14% |
| 2019 | 2.71% |
| 2018 | 2.85% |
| 2017 | 4.16% |
| 2016 | 4.2% |
| 2015 | 3.65% |
| 2014 | 3.54% |
Reading this correctly. Annual percentage growth rate of GDP at constant market prices. A negative value means the economy contracted that year. Figures are in annual %. Comparing this series with a different measure of the same concept (for example a nominal figure against a purchasing-power-parity figure) will give misleading results.
Related data
Source. World Bank Open Data, indicator
NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG — GDP Growth (Annual %). Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as published; this page computes the summary statistics (change, CAGR, extremes) from the underlying annual series. View the original dataset on data.worldbank.org.