Costa Rica recorded a Current Account deficit of 1.40 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product in 2024. Current Account to GDP in Costa Rica averaged -4.76 percent of GDP from 1977 until 2024, reaching an all time high of -1.05 percent of GDP in 1991 and a record low of -15.59 percent of GDP in 1981. source: Consejo Monetario Centroamericanono
Current Account to GDP in Costa Rica is expected to reach -1.80 percent of GDP by the end of 2025, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the Costa Rica Current Account to GDP is projected to trend around -1.90 percent of GDP in 2026 and -2.00 percent of GDP in 2027, according to our econometric models.