Costa Rica recorded a Current Account deficit of 0.70 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product in 2025. Current Account to GDP in Costa Rica averaged -4.66 percent of GDP from 1977 until 2025, reaching an all time high of -0.70 percent of GDP in 2025 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 -2.00 percent of GDP by the end of 2026, 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 -1.80 percent of GDP in 2027, according to our econometric models.