Current account balance in Costa Rica
The current account balance of Costa Rica was -0.5% of GDP in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 1977.
Costa Rica, 2025
-0.5%
Change from 2024
+0.3percentage points
Median of OECD (38 countries), 2025
0.6%
Current account balance in Costa Rica over time
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Costa Rica
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% of GDP. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | Costa Rica |
|---|---|
| 2025 | -0.5% |
| 2024 | -0.9% |
| 2023 | -1.4% |
| 2022 | -2.6% |
| 2021 | -3.3% |
| 2020 | -1.0% |
| 2019 | -1.2% |
| 2018 | -3.0% |
| 2017 | -3.6% |
| 2016 | -2.1% |
| 2015 | -3.4% |
| 2014 | -4.7% |
| 2013 | -4.8% |
| 2012 | -5.1% |
| 2011 | -5.3% |
| 2010 | -3.2% |
| 2009 | -1.8% |
| 2008 | -8.4% |
| 2007 | -5.6% |
| 2006 | -4.1% |
| 2005 | -4.2% |
| 2004 | -3.6% |
| 2003 | -5.2% |
| 2002 | -5.2% |
| 2001 | -3.2% |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of +0.3 percentage points from -0.9% in 2024.
- Since 2015, when it was -3.4%, the figure has changed by +2.9 percentage points.