Costa Rica
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Key facts
- Currency: Costa Rican colon
- Capital city: San José
- Region: Central America
- Continent: Americas
- Land area: 51,060 km²
- Population: 5,180,829
- Political Leader: Carlos Alvarado Quesada (President)
Latest news (see all)
Costa Rica y Finlandia se suman al Foro Internacional de Ciudades Abiertas que organiza Fuengirola
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2024-04-17
Ontario man stranded in Costa Rica due to lack of hospital beds at home
Read: Global News
2024-04-12
Scientists and NGOs call for Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica and Colombia to ratify the UN High Seas Treaty to deliver 30x30 in the High Seas
Read: Greenpeace
2024-04-12
I used the Apple Vision Pro on a flight to Costa Rica -- and it was chaotic
Read: Mashable
2024-03-26
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Read: CBS
2024-03-25
Lionel Messi to miss Argentina friendlies vs. El Salvador, Costa Rica with hamstring injury
Read: CBS
2024-03-18
Metrics
General information
Business
| Central government debt | 39.34 % of GDP |
| Expense | 30.06 % of GDP |
| GDP | 69,243,600,000.00 current US$ |
| Inflation | 8.27 annual % |
| Self-employed | 27.37 % of total employment |
| Tax revenue | 14.00 % of GDP |
| Unemployment | 8.52 % of total labor force |
| Vulnerable employment | 24.72 % of total employment |
Environment
| Agricultural land | 18,110.00 km² |
| Alternative and nuclear energy | 14.21 % of total energy use |
| Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) | 6,967.40 kt |
| Electricity production from coal sources | 0.00 % of total |
| Electricity production from natural gas sources | 0.00 % of total |
| Electricity production from hydroelectric sources | 74.61 % of total |
| Electricity production from nuclear sources | 0.00 % of total |
| Electricity production from oil sources | 1.00 % of total |
| Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric | 24.39 % of total |
| Net energy imports | 49.83 % of energy use |
| Fertility rate | 1.53 births per woman |
| Forest area | 30,512 km² |
| Fossil fuel energy consumption | 49.88 % of total |
| Other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 | 441.11 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
| Median age | 29.30 years |
| Methane emissions | 4,650.44 kt of CO2 equivalent |
| Nitrous oxide emissions | 1,875.80 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
| Female Population | 2,590,119 |
| Male Population | 2,590,709 |
| Renewable energy consumption | 36.43 % of total final energy consumption |
| Rural land area | 49,804.70 km² |
| Rural population | 930,373 |
| Urban land area | 1,475.94 km² |
| Urban population | 4,250,456 |
| Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters | 0.96 % of total population |
Health
| Birth rate | 11.87 per 1,000 people |
| Death rate | 7.19 per 1,000 people |
| Health expenditure per capita | 953.08 current US$ |
| Health expenditure | 7.86 % of GDP |
| Incidence of HIV | 0.21 per 1,000 uninfected population |
| Hospital beds | 1.10 per 1,000 people |
| Life expectancy at birth | 77 years |
| Suicide mortality rate | 8.10 per 100,000 population |
Other
| Access to electricity | 100.00 % of population |
| Individuals using the Internet | 82.60 % of population |
| Net migration | 3,750 |
| Press freedom | 6.39 |
Politics
| Armed forces personnel | 10,000 |
| Democracy score | 8.07 |
| Democracy type | Full democracy |
| Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments | 47.37 % |
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Coordinates: [10°0′N, -84°0′S]
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Source
SIPRI, World Bank, Reporters Without Borders
Updated: 1 day ago
