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🇨🇷 Costa Rica
Republic of Costa Rica
CRI CR ₡ Costa Rican colón (CRC)
Every statistic we track for Costa Rica — 118 indicators, each with its latest value and world rank. Open the interactive profile →
$34,157
79.8 yrs
7.44
0.81
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📈 Economy
👥 Demographics
| Fertility Rate (WB) | 1.3 | #189/217 | 2024 |
| Median Age | 35.7 | #100/235 | 2026 |
| Population | 4.9 | #119/229 | 2013 |
| Population | 5.4 | #116/191 | 2026 |
| Population Density | 101.3 | #116/235 | 2026 |
| Refugees by Country of Origin | 367 | #123/195 | 2025 |
| Urban Population | 79.3% | #58/213 | 2024 |
🌐 Connectivity
| Access to Electricity | 100% | #26/214 | 2023 |
| Internet Users | 87.2% | #73/182 | 2024 |
| Mobile Subscriptions | 136.5 | #45/209 | 2022 |
| Read News Online | 52.8% | #25/75 | 2024 |
🫀 Health
| Adult Obesity | 31.4% | #48/199 | 2022 |
| Alcohol Consumption per Capita | 4 | #117/207 | 2022 |
| Child Mortality (under-5) | 1 | #124/199 | 2024 |
| Health Spending (QoG) | 7.2% | #80/189 | 2022 |
| Hypertension Prevalence | 37.8% | #103/194 | 2019 |
| Infant Mortality (QoG) | 9.2 | #117/191 | 2023 |
| Life Expectancy | 79.8 | #30/188 | 2013 |
| Life Expectancy | 78.9 | #34/186 | 2020 |
| Suicide Rate | 7.6 | #104/185 | 2021 |
| Tobacco Use Prevalence | 8.4% | #148/167 | 2022 |
| Undernourishment | 2.5% | #118/166 | 2023 |
| Universal Health Coverage Index | 84 | #27/195 | 2023 |
🎓 Education
| Mean Years of Schooling | 9.1 | #83/146 | 2020 |
| PISA Mathematics Score | 385 | #62/79 | 2022 |
| PISA Reading Score | 415 | #49/79 | 2022 |
| PISA Science Score | 411 | #55/79 | 2022 |
🌱 Environment
| CO₂ per Capita (WB) | 1.6 | #122/203 | 2024 |
| Energy Use per Person | 1,025 | #87/149 | 2023 |
| Renewable Electricity | 99.9% | #8/195 | 2024 |
🏛️ Governance
📰 Media & news
| Press Freedom Index | 72.4 | #38/177 | 2026 |
🛡️ Safety
| Homicide Rate | 11.1 | #45/204 | 2023 |
| Road Traffic Deaths | 15.5 | #73/195 | 2021 |
⚠️ Risk & resilience
| Climate Seen as a Threat | 91.1% | #39/142 | 2023 |
| Confident Can Protect Family | 59.7% | #24/142 | 2023 |
| Disaster Exposure (WRI) | 9.9 | #31/193 | 2025 |
| Experienced a Disaster | 19.1% | #100/142 | 2023 |
| Experienced Discrimination (Skin Colour) | 8.2% | #55/139 | 2023 |
| INFORM Risk Index | 3.7 | #95/191 | 2025 |
| Resilience to Risk (WRP) | 53.8 | #65/141 | 2023 |
| World Risk Index | 11.3 | #47/193 | 2025 |
| Worry About Violent Crime | 83.5% | #18/142 | 2023 |
😊 Wellbeing
| Happiness (Cantril Ladder) | 7.4 | #4/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Freedom | 1.1 | #8/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: GDP | 1.7 | #58/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Generosity | 0.1 | #112/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Healthy Life Expectancy | 0.7 | #46/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Low Corruption | 0.1 | #69/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Social Support | 1.5 | #37/147 | 2025 |
| Human Development Index | 0.8 | #62/193 | 2023 |
🧭 Attitudes & values
| Attended a Demonstration | 15.1% | #37/151 | 2017 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Effective | 86.8% | #44/143 | 2018 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Safe | 86.4% | #41/143 | 2018 |
| Individualism | 15 | #58/65 | 2010 |
| Interpersonal Trust (Latinobarómetro) | 10% | #14/17 | 2024 |
| Masculinity | 21 | #61/65 | 2010 |
| Power Distance | 35 | #54/65 | 2010 |
| Signed a Petition | 19.1% | #46/121 | 2017 |
| Trade Union Membership | 4.6% | #101/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in government | 4.4 | #72/123 | 2017 |
| Trust in parliament | 4.2 | #96/151 | 2017 |
| Trust in political parties | 3.4 | #80/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in Science | 80.5% | #44/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in Scientists | 75.7% | #48/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in the legal system | 4.9 | #82/153 | 2017 |
| Uncertainty Avoidance | 86 | #16/65 | 2010 |
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