Costa Rica - Inflation, consumer prices (annual %)

The value for Inflation, consumer prices (annual %) in Costa Rica was 1.73 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 61 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 90.12 in 1982 and a minimum value of -0.67 in 1965.

Definition: Inflation as measured by the consumer price index reflects the annual percentage change in the cost to the average consumer of acquiring a basket of goods and services that may be fixed or changed at specified intervals, such as yearly. The Laspeyres formula is generally used.

Source: International Monetary Fund, International Financial Statistics and data files.

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Year Value
1960 0.79
1961 2.43
1962 2.68
1963 2.93
1964 3.32
1965 -0.67
1966 0.18
1967 1.21
1968 4.09
1969 2.63
1970 4.65
1971 3.08
1972 4.60
1973 15.21
1974 30.07
1975 17.37
1976 3.49
1977 4.19
1978 6.01
1979 9.19
1980 18.14
1981 37.06
1982 90.12
1983 32.62
1984 11.95
1985 15.06
1986 11.84
1987 16.84
1988 20.83
1989 16.51
1990 19.04
1991 28.71
1992 21.79
1993 9.78
1994 13.53
1995 23.19
1996 17.51
1997 13.25
1998 11.66
1999 10.05
2000 10.96
2001 11.26
2002 9.17
2003 9.45
2004 12.31
2005 13.80
2006 11.47
2007 9.36
2008 13.42
2009 7.84
2010 5.66
2011 4.88
2012 4.50
2013 5.23
2014 4.52
2015 0.80
2016 -0.02
2017 1.63
2018 2.22
2019 2.10
2020 0.72
2021 1.73

Aggregation method: Median

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Financial Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exchange rates & prices