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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

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2024-03-18

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2024-03-03

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Metrics

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 11.32 % 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 3,850
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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Datasets

Source

SIPRI, World Bank

Updated: 3 days ago

License

CC BY 4.0

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