Costa Rica, is a country located at Central America, it has an area of 51,100 Km2 and it may be considered quite a small country.

Costa Rica, with a population of 5,278,000 people, it is one of the least populous country in the world and has a population density of 103 people per km2.

It's capital is San Jose and its currency is Costa Rican colones

Costa Rica is holding the 76 position by nominal GDP. Its national debt in 2023 was 48,886 millions of euros (52,874 millions of dollars), ( 61.12% debt-to-GDP ratio) and its public debt per capita is €9,262 euros per inhabitant$10,018 dollars per inhabitant.

The last annual rate of CPI published in Costa Rica was on September of 2022 and it was 10.4%.

In terms of the human development index (HDI) of Costa Rica, which is the index used by the United Nations to measure the progress of a country, was 0.806 points in 2022, leaving it in 64th place in the table of 193 countries published.

If the reason to visit Costa Rica are business, you must know it's in the 74th of the Doing Business ranking , which provides objective measures of business regulations for local firms.

In the tables at the bottom of the page, you can see more information about the economy and demography of Costa Rica, if you want to see information about other countries click here

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Costa Rica Economy
Gouvernement
Qu. GDP Per Capita [+]2024Q44,345K
Annual GDP [+]2023€79,984M
Annual GDP [+]2023$86,498M
GDP per capita [+]2023€15,154
GDP per capita [+]2023$16,390
Quarterly GDP [+]2024Q4€22,933M
Debt (M.€.) [+]202348,886
Debt ($M) [+]202352,874
Debt (%GDP) [+]202361.12%
Debt Per Capita [+]2023€9,262
Debt Per Capita [+]2023$10,018
Deficit (M.€) [+]2023-2,536
Deficit ($M) [+]2023-2,743
Deficit (%GDP) [+]2023-3.17%
Expenditure (M.€) [+]202314,746.8
Expenditure ($M) [+]202315,949.9
Education Expenditure (M.€) [+]20213,447.5
Education Expenditure ($M) [+]20214,059.0
Education Expenditure (%Bud.) [+]202120.08%
Gov. Health Exp. (M.€) [+]20234,043,910,716.5
Gov. Health Exp.($M) [+]20234,372,680,657.7
Gov. Health Exp. (%Bud.) [+]202225.82%
Defence Expenditure (M.€) [+]20200
Defence Expenditure ($M) [+]20200
Defence Expenditure (%Bud.) [+]20200%
Expenditure (%GDP) [+]202318.44%
Expenditure Per Capita [+]2023€2,794
Expenditure Per Capita [+]2023$3,022
Education Expenditure P.C [+]2021€666
Education Expenditure P.C [+]2021$788
Gov. Health Exp. P.C. [+]2023€768
Gov. Health Exp. P.C. [+]2023$831
Defence Expenditure P.C. [+]2020€0
Defence Expenditure P.C. [+]2020$0
Moody's Rating [+]09/18/2024Ba3
S&P Rating [+]10/27/2023BB-
Fitch Rating [+]03/02/2023BB-
Corruption Index [+]202355
Competitiveness Ranking [+]201962º
Fragile States Index [+]202439.4
RTI Raking [+]2024102º
Innovation Ranking [+]202470º
Labour
Unemployment rate [+]2024Q46.5%
Unemployed [+]2024Q4157K
NMW [+]2024$685.1
NMW [+]2024€620.0
Average Wage [+]2022$20,516
Average Wage [+]2022€19,483
Human Capital Ranking [+]201761º
Markets
US Dollar exchange rate [+]03/24/2025500.2700
Stock ExchangeYTD % [+]03/24/20250.00%
Prices
CPI (overall index) [+]September 202210.4%
Money Market
Key rates [+]03/01/20254.00%
Business
Doing Business [+]202074º
Passengers vehicles Year [+]December 201930,825
Annual Vehicles/ 1,000 p. [+]December 20197.23
Vehicles / 1,000 people [+]2015221.89
Taxes
Tax Revenue (%GDP) [+]202324.9%
Standard VAT [+]01/01/200613.00%
Top tax rate + SSC [+]202233.4%
Trade
Annual arrivals [+]20222,349,500
Exports [+]2023€17,594.7M
Exports [+]2023$19,025.2M
Exports % GDP [+]202322.00%
Imports [+]2023€22,231.8M
Imports [+]2023$24,039.3M
Imports % GDP [+]202327.80%
Trade balance [+]2023€-4,637.1M
Trade balance [+]2023$-5,014.1M
Trade balance % GDP [+]2023-5.80%
Socio-Demography
Global AgeWatch Ranking [+]201528º
Density [+]2023103
Global Peace Ranking [+]202458º
Remittance received ($M) [+]2017562.1
% Immigrant [+]202010.15%
% Emigrant [+]20202.93%
Birth Rate [+]202211.69‰
Remittance sent ($M) [+]2017896.4
Crude death rate [+]20227.11‰
Fertility Rate [+]20221.52
% risk of poverty [+]202225.5%
Population [+]20235,278,000
Immigrant stock [+]2020520,729
Emigrant stock [+]2020150,241
HDI [+]20220.806
Gender Gap Ranking [+]202419º
Life expectancy [+]202277.32
Suicides [+]2020352
Suicide rate [+]20206.90
Number of homicides [+]2023906
Rate Homicides per 100.000 [+]202317.75
Energy and Environment
CO2 Tons per capita [+]20231.66
Consumption GWh [+]20239,957
Generation GWh [+]202311,716
Others
COVID-19 - Deaths [+]08/04/20249,372
COVID-19 - Confirmed [+]08/04/20241,234,701
Fully vaccinated [+]10/06/20234,369,784
COVID-19 - Deaths per million population [+]08/04/20241,775.67
Doses administered [+]10/06/202313,576,935