Consumer price inflation in Costa Rica

Consumer prices in Costa Rica changed by -0.1% in 2025.

Measure: Consumer price inflation (World Bank) Unit: Annual % change Data: 1960 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Costa Rica, 2025 -0.1% Annual % change
Change from 2024 +0.3percentage points 2024: -0.4%
World, 2025 3.0% Official aggregate
Median of OECD (38 countries), 2025 2.8% Middle value of 37 countries
Position in 2025 158th of 169 See the full ranking

Consumer price inflation in Costa Rica over time

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Annual % change. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Consumer price inflation (World Bank) (annual % change), 2001 to 2025
Period Costa RicaWorld
2025 -0.1% 3.0%
2024 -0.4% 3.0%
2023 0.5% 5.7%
2022 8.3% 8.0%
2021 1.7% 3.5%
2020 0.7% 1.9%
2019 2.1% 2.2%
2018 2.2% 2.5%
2017 1.6% 2.3%
2016 0.0% 1.6%
2015 0.8% 1.4%
2014 4.5% 2.4%
2013 5.2% 2.6%
2012 4.5% 3.7%
2011 4.9% 4.8%
2010 5.7% 3.3%
2009 7.8% 2.9%
2008 13.4% 8.9%
2007 9.4% 4.8%
2006 11.5% 4.3%
2005 13.8% 4.1%
2004 12.3% 3.5%
2003 9.4% 3.0%
2002 9.2% 2.9%
2001 11.3% 3.8%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +0.3 percentage points from -0.4% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 0.8%, the figure has changed by −0.9 percentage points.
  • Among the 169 countries with data for 2025, Costa Rica has the 158th highest value.
  • The figure for the world in 2025 was 3.0%.

Source and dates

Original producer
International Monetary Fund, International Financial Statistics
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
1960 to 2025 for Costa Rica
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: International Monetary Fund, International Financial Statistics