Costa Rica — Inflation
Inflation, Consumer Prices (Annual %) for Costa Rica, 1960–2025.
Latest value · 2025
-0.07%
Inflation, Consumer Prices (Annual %) · annual % · -109.3% since 1960
Inflation for Costa Rica was -0.07% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 66 years, from 1960 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 90.12% in 1982. The lowest was -0.67% in 1965 (about 9.0× the latest value).
Costa Rica ranks 175 of 187 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 94%. The median for Latin America & Caribbean is 2.53%, so Costa Rica sits below it. It peaked in 1982 and has fallen 100% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved down 109%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
-0.07%
First (1960)
0.79%
Change
-109.3%
Highest
90.12%
in 1982
Lowest
-0.67%
in 1965
Average
10.73%
Annual growth (CAGR)
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Years of data
66
Recent years
| Year | annual % |
|---|---|
| 2025 | -0.07% |
| 2024 | -0.41% |
| 2023 | 0.53% |
| 2022 | 8.27% |
| 2021 | 1.73% |
| 2020 | 0.72% |
| 2019 | 2.1% |
| 2018 | 2.22% |
| 2017 | 1.63% |
| 2016 | -0.02% |
| 2015 | 0.8% |
| 2014 | 4.52% |
Reading this correctly. Annual percentage change in the cost to the average consumer of acquiring a basket of goods and services. A negative value means deflation. 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
FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG — Inflation, Consumer Prices (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.