Costa Rica

Legislative Assembly

Political system
Presidential system
Structure of parliament
Unicameral
IPU membership
Yes

Budget

Data on parliament’s budget role and activities

Parliamentary powers to amend the budget
Other

Notes:

The Legislative Assembly can modify the budget but the effectiveness of any increase in expenditures originally budgeted by the Executive must be justified by the Office of the Comptroller General if revenue to cover them is not specified.

Constitution, art. 179

Parliament has a specialized unit to conduct budgetary analysis
Yes

Notes: Budgetary Analysis Department

Number of staff working in the specialized budget unit
5
Date when parliament received the draft budget from the government, per year
01 Sep 2022
(2022)
Date when parliament adopted the budget, per year
21 Nov 2022
(2022)
Number of days between receiving the draft budget and its adoption in parliament, per year
81
(2022)
National currency
Costa Rican Colon (CRC)
PPP (Purchasing Power Parity) conversion factor
323.000
(2023)
State budget, per year
11,517,502,000,000 CRC
(2022)
State budget, per year in PPP
35,074,769,315
(2022)

Historical data for IPU membership

Historical data for IPU membership
Year IPU membership
2020-09
List of values for 2020-09
No
2019-04
List of values for 2019-04
No
2018-06
List of values for 2018-06
No