Costa Rica inflation rate (CPI)
Headline consumer price inflation, year-on-year percent, latest published month, from the official statistics office.
| Current value | -0.32 percent (YoY) |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2026-06-01 |
| Official source | INEC Costa Rica — Índice de Precios al Consumidor, junio 2026 (IPC base diciembre 2020=100), served via BCCR Indicadores Económicos cuadro 2732 ('Índice de precios al consumidor (IPC)', fuente: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos) |
| Last verified | 2026-07-16 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
Reference month June 2026, published early July 2026 (INEC news release 'Índice de Precios al Consumidor presenta primer incremento mensual del 2026', https://inec.cr/noticias/indice-precios-al-consumidor-presenta-primer-incremento-mensual-del-2026). IPC base diciembre 2020=100; index level 109.12; MoM +0.71% (first monthly increase of 2026, driven by gasoline, bus fares and international tourism packages); accumulated Jan-Jun 2026 +0.08%. YoY is NEGATIVE (-0.32%) — Costa Rica has had negative year-on-year headline inflation continuously since May 2025 (Dec 2025 -1.23%, trough Feb 2026 -2.73%), well below the BCCR target of 3% ±1pp. INEC (inec.cr) is the official IPC producer but the site is Akamai geo-blocked from this location ('Access Denied') both via fetch and browser; values verified instead in the BCCR's official Indicadores Económicos service (gee.bccr.fi.cr, cuadro 2732), which republishes the INEC series and explicitly cites INEC as fuente — figures match INEC's own June release as reported (index 109.12, MoM 0.71%, YoY -0.32%, accumulated 0.08%). Next release: July 2026 IPC, expected in the first half of August 2026.
Earlier values
| From | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-01 | -2.53 | INEC — IPC enero 2026 (index 107.99, MoM -0.96%), via BCCR I |
| 2026-02-01 | -2.73 | INEC — IPC febrero 2026 (index 107.75, MoM -0.22%; deepest Y |
| 2026-03-01 | -2.09 | INEC — IPC marzo 2026 (index 108.11, MoM +0.34%), via BCCR I |
| 2026-04-01 | -1.64 | INEC — IPC abril 2026 (index 108.06, MoM -0.04%), via BCCR I |
| 2026-05-01 | -0.97 | INEC — IPC mayo 2026 (index 108.36, MoM +0.27%), via BCCR In |
Get it programmatically
curl https://usaref.dev/v1/cr/cpi
# $0.001 per call — x402 on Base (USDC). No key, no signup.
# History: curl https://usaref.dev/v1/cr/cpi/history?from=2020-01-01
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