Costa Rica | Gross capital formation (current US$)
Gross capital formation (formerly gross domestic investment) consists of outlays on additions to the fixed assets of the economy plus net changes in the level of inventories. Fixed assets include land improvements (fences, ditches, drains, and so on); plant, machinery, and equipment purchases; and the construction of roads, railways, and the like, including schools, offices, hospitals, private residential dwellings, and commercial and industrial buildings. Inventories are stocks of goods held by firms to meet temporary or unexpected fluctuations in production or sales, and "work in progress." According to the 1993 SNA, net acquisitions of valuables are also considered capital formation. Data are in current U.S. dollars. 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. Data on capital formation may be estimated from direct surveys of enterprises and administrative records or based on the commodity flow method using data from production, trade, and construction activities. The quality of data on government fixed capital formation depends on the quality of government accounting systems (which tend to be weak in developing countries). Measures of fixed capital formation by households and corporations - particularly capital outlays by small, unincorporated enterprises - are usually unreliable. Estimates of changes in inventories are rarely complete but usually include the most important activities or commodities. In some countries these estimates are derived as a composite residual along with household final consumption expenditure. According to national accounts conventions, adjustments should be made for appreciation of the value of inventory holdings due to price changes, but this is not always done. In highly inflationary economies this element can be substantial. 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 | Gross capital formation (current US$)
88817131.806327 1960
92564694.854541 1961
93216643.358746 1962
96209079.562713 1963
86780649.915039 1964
115652830.18868 1965
123366037.73585 1966
135396226.41509 1967
139501886.79245 1968
170973584.90566 1969
202249056.60377 1970
262140624.43167 1971
272750565.18463 1972
366840495.77253 1973
445611601.51324 1974
424352392.06534 1975
570863477.24621 1976
745670945.15753 1977
826592765.46091 1978
1021551925.3209 1979
1283943990.6651 1980
761602094.67916 1981
643473528.39535 1982
760944977.90891 1983
830908840.59242 1984
1014649504.9505 1985
1114014336.9176 1986
1229404173.9685 1987
1129027576.1974 1988
1396037479.9655 1989
1560594275.7265 1990
1324249257.5349 1991
1749935226.47 1992
2015162329.777 1993
2178184932.1346 1994
2262670320.6591 1995
2072976401.7139 1996
2529785100.172 1997
3101095903.0289 1998
3004897026.0431 1999
3105823071.4819 2000
3213685610.7276 2001
3296917230.5597 2002
3275598195.4548 2003
3522980135.4098 2004
3800536644.3459 2005
4789717400.2934 2006
6260577868.4534 2007
7580537376.4147 2008
5673480096.8442 2009
7469178976.2651 2010
8573125594.96 2011
9377465211.0675 2012
9981274576.8985 2013
9999194028.1678 2014
10641405350.178 2015
11115578801.376 2016
10932147363.685 2017
11466497274.018 2018
10348109476.049 2019
10085036678.225 2020
12070862315.92 2021
12651165672.551 2022
Costa Rica | Gross capital formation (current US$)
Gross capital formation (formerly gross domestic investment) consists of outlays on additions to the fixed assets of the economy plus net changes in the level of inventories. Fixed assets include land improvements (fences, ditches, drains, and so on); plant, machinery, and equipment purchases; and the construction of roads, railways, and the like, including schools, offices, hospitals, private residential dwellings, and commercial and industrial buildings. Inventories are stocks of goods held by firms to meet temporary or unexpected fluctuations in production or sales, and "work in progress." According to the 1993 SNA, net acquisitions of valuables are also considered capital formation. Data are in current U.S. dollars. 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. Data on capital formation may be estimated from direct surveys of enterprises and administrative records or based on the commodity flow method using data from production, trade, and construction activities. The quality of data on government fixed capital formation depends on the quality of government accounting systems (which tend to be weak in developing countries). Measures of fixed capital formation by households and corporations - particularly capital outlays by small, unincorporated enterprises - are usually unreliable. Estimates of changes in inventories are rarely complete but usually include the most important activities or commodities. In some countries these estimates are derived as a composite residual along with household final consumption expenditure. According to national accounts conventions, adjustments should be made for appreciation of the value of inventory holdings due to price changes, but this is not always done. In highly inflationary economies this element can be substantial. 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