Costa Rica: foreign debt as share of GDP 2000-2023

In 2023, the public debt that Costa Rica's central government owed to foreign creditors equaled 16 percent of the country's GDP. The volume of external debt in relation to GDP has been increasing since 2011, the year in which it reached its lowest point in the indicated period at 4.8 percent. Based on the total central government debt, Costa Rica is one of the less indebted countries in Latin America.