Costa Rica | Interest payments (% of expense)

Interest payments include interest payments on government debt--including long-term bonds, long-term loans, and other debt instruments--to domestic and foreign residents. Limitations and exceptions: For most countries central government finance data have been consolidated into one account, but for others only budgetary central government accounts are available. Countries reporting budgetary data are noted in the country metadata. Because budgetary accounts may not include all central government units (such as social security funds), they usually provide an incomplete picture. In federal states the central government accounts provide an incomplete view of total public finance. Data on government revenue and expense are collected by the IMF through questionnaires to member countries and by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Despite IMF efforts to standardize data collection, statistics are often incomplete, untimely, and not comparable across countries. Statistical concept and methodology: The IMF's Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014, harmonized with the 2008 SNA, recommends an accrual accounting method, focusing on all economic events affecting assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenses, not just those represented by cash transactions. It accounts for all changes in stocks, so stock data at the end of an accounting period equal stock data at the beginning of the period plus flows over the period. The 1986 manual considered only debt stocks. Government finance statistics are reported in local currency. Many countries report government finance data by fiscal year; see country metadata for information on fiscal year end by country.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Republic of Costa Rica
Records
63
Source
Costa Rica | Interest payments (% of expense)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973 8.86075949
1974 8.54271357
1975 7.29927007
1976 6.80473373
1977 7.52941176
1978 7.25806452
1979 8.42391304
1980 10.06711409
1981 8.80929332
1982 9.87045034
1983 9.07079646
1984 10.78431373
1985 9.50530951
1986 9.74753386
1987 8.8959164
1988 10.59243749
1989 10.33253012
1990 12.78491995
1991 17.07031491
1992 16.15974223
1993 12.70232364
1994 13.9520152
1995 20.37586769
1996 20.89702702
1997 18.10752688
1998 15.66117152
1999 18.23075642
2000 17.26285641
2001 17.88820499
2002 17.75865724
2003 18.35229019
2004 18.18231337
2005 18.19402953
2006 17.46777113
2007 14.33925371
2008 9.75378678
2009 8.36331329
2010 8.07912868
2011 8.32136543
2012 7.75896832
2013 9.40982198
2014 9.34970815
2015 9.38312902
2016 10.1508188
2017 10.11795391
2018 11.91461472
2019 13.87790207
2020 14.52555728
2021 15.87893226
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Costa Rica | Interest payments (% of expense)

Interest payments include interest payments on government debt--including long-term bonds, long-term loans, and other debt instruments--to domestic and foreign residents. Limitations and exceptions: For most countries central government finance data have been consolidated into one account, but for others only budgetary central government accounts are available. Countries reporting budgetary data are noted in the country metadata. Because budgetary accounts may not include all central government units (such as social security funds), they usually provide an incomplete picture. In federal states the central government accounts provide an incomplete view of total public finance. Data on government revenue and expense are collected by the IMF through questionnaires to member countries and by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Despite IMF efforts to standardize data collection, statistics are often incomplete, untimely, and not comparable across countries. Statistical concept and methodology: The IMF's Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014, harmonized with the 2008 SNA, recommends an accrual accounting method, focusing on all economic events affecting assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenses, not just those represented by cash transactions. It accounts for all changes in stocks, so stock data at the end of an accounting period equal stock data at the beginning of the period plus flows over the period. The 1986 manual considered only debt stocks. Government finance statistics are reported in local currency. Many countries report government finance data by fiscal year; see country metadata for information on fiscal year end by country.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Republic of Costa Rica
Records
63
Source