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Costa Rica
Tax revenue (% of GDP)

Taxes are compulsory, unrequited payments, in cash or in kind, made by institutional units to government units. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period.

Global rank#66out of 89 countries
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Historical trend

15.214.112.911.710.6197219982024Costa Rica · 2024: 13.46%Costa Rica

Analytical takeaways

  • Costa Rica records 13.46% for Tax revenue (% of GDP) in 2024, ranking #66 globally out of 89 countries.
  • Tax revenue (% of GDP) increased from 11.44% in 1972 to 13.46% in 2024, a gain of 2.02%.
  • The country sits in the middle of the global distribution for this metric, making the page a balanced entry point for comparative analysis beyond the extremes.

Comparison

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