Costa Rica | General government final consumption expenditure (constant 2015 US$)
General government final consumption expenditure (formerly general government consumption) includes all government current expenditures for purchases of goods and services (including compensation of employees). It also includes most expenditures on national defense and security, but excludes government military expenditures that are part of government capital formation. Data are in constant 2015 prices, expressed in U.S. dollars. Development relevance: An economy's growth is measured by the change in the volume of its output or in the real incomes of its residents. The 2008 United Nations System of National Accounts (2008 SNA) offers three plausible indicators for calculating growth: the volume of gross domestic product (GDP), real gross domestic income, and real gross national income. The volume of GDP is the sum of value added, measured at constant prices, by households, government, and industries operating in the economy. GDP accounts for all domestic production, regardless of whether the income accrues to domestic or foreign institutions. Limitations and exceptions: Because policymakers have tended to focus on fostering the growth of output, and because data on production are easier to collect than data on spending, many countries generate their primary estimate of GDP using the production approach. Moreover, many countries do not estimate all the components of national expenditures but instead derive some of the main aggregates indirectly using GDP (based on the production approach) as the control total. Measures of growth in consumption and capital formation are subject to two kinds of inaccuracy. The first stems from the difficulty of measuring expenditures at current price levels. The second arises in deflating current price data to measure volume growth, where results depend on the relevance and reliability of the price indexes and weights used. Measuring price changes is more difficult for investment goods than for consumption goods because of the one-time nature of many investments and because the rate of technological progress in capital goods makes capturing change in quality difficult. (An example is computers - prices have fallen as quality has improved.) To obtain government consumption in constant prices, countries may deflate current values by applying a wage (price) index or extrapolate from the change in government employment. Neither technique captures improvements in productivity or changes in the quality of government services. Statistical concept and methodology: Gross domestic product (GDP) from the expenditure side is made up of household final consumption expenditure, general government final consumption expenditure, gross capital formation (private and public investment in fixed assets, changes in inventories, and net acquisitions of valuables), and net exports (exports minus imports) of goods and services. Such expenditures are recorded in purchaser prices and include net taxes on products.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Republic of Costa Rica
Records
63
Source
Costa Rica | General government final consumption expenditure (constant 2015 US$)
1152567656.1939 1960
1355473873.1454 1961
1472390094.8175 1962
1757137666.952 1963
1691136574.07 1964
1936660639.5299 1965
2024913529.5253 1966
2064137036.1109 1967
2101851946.3851 1968
2225934000.8653 1969
2487675477.873 1970
2786377566.7324 1971
2982495099.8381 1972
3163149519.8186 1973
3430171084.1828 1974
3624402871.677 1975
3907264698.2889 1976
4249338934.0792 1977
4405101513.2324 1978
4744912854.289 1979
4813931139.936 1980
4543892382.7712 1981
4428107608.4481 1982
4297991168.1889 1983
4465068220.4777 1984
4512211858.276 1985
4620453650.5086 1986
4722283908.1956 1987
4864091970.5349 1988
5034186215.6243 1989
5134885025.9444 1990
5088495686.3907 1991
5254290922.8805 1992
5539632586.8884 1993
5653336322.8582 1994
5630673117.8314 1995
5677912268.3741 1996
5910785619.5111 1997
6026075049.5064 1998
6139930988.9036 1999
6276201794.4666 2000
6552044899.7816 2001
6693133913.2093 2002
6821260086.9221 2003
6895312785.364 2004
6971070969.0559 2005
7194013526.6044 2006
7372929967.1618 2007
7759126191.6853 2008
8241248615.8054 2009
8597664860.717 2010
8689005183.2882 2011
8786534450.1541 2012
9082455456.7512 2013
9349707671.1207 2014
9572686312.1071 2015
9796975040.7986 2016
9989333025.6195 2017
10045462438.582 2018
10637786039.097 2019
10727375337.949 2020
10909166595.249 2021
11169370791.974 2022
Costa Rica | General government final consumption expenditure (constant 2015 US$)
General government final consumption expenditure (formerly general government consumption) includes all government current expenditures for purchases of goods and services (including compensation of employees). It also includes most expenditures on national defense and security, but excludes government military expenditures that are part of government capital formation. Data are in constant 2015 prices, expressed in U.S. dollars. Development relevance: An economy's growth is measured by the change in the volume of its output or in the real incomes of its residents. The 2008 United Nations System of National Accounts (2008 SNA) offers three plausible indicators for calculating growth: the volume of gross domestic product (GDP), real gross domestic income, and real gross national income. The volume of GDP is the sum of value added, measured at constant prices, by households, government, and industries operating in the economy. GDP accounts for all domestic production, regardless of whether the income accrues to domestic or foreign institutions. Limitations and exceptions: Because policymakers have tended to focus on fostering the growth of output, and because data on production are easier to collect than data on spending, many countries generate their primary estimate of GDP using the production approach. Moreover, many countries do not estimate all the components of national expenditures but instead derive some of the main aggregates indirectly using GDP (based on the production approach) as the control total. Measures of growth in consumption and capital formation are subject to two kinds of inaccuracy. The first stems from the difficulty of measuring expenditures at current price levels. The second arises in deflating current price data to measure volume growth, where results depend on the relevance and reliability of the price indexes and weights used. Measuring price changes is more difficult for investment goods than for consumption goods because of the one-time nature of many investments and because the rate of technological progress in capital goods makes capturing change in quality difficult. (An example is computers - prices have fallen as quality has improved.) To obtain government consumption in constant prices, countries may deflate current values by applying a wage (price) index or extrapolate from the change in government employment. Neither technique captures improvements in productivity or changes in the quality of government services. Statistical concept and methodology: Gross domestic product (GDP) from the expenditure side is made up of household final consumption expenditure, general government final consumption expenditure, gross capital formation (private and public investment in fixed assets, changes in inventories, and net acquisitions of valuables), and net exports (exports minus imports) of goods and services. Such expenditures are recorded in purchaser prices and include net taxes on products.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Republic of Costa Rica
Records
63
Source