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Costa Rica

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Costa Rica is a country. The capital city is San José, located in the Central America region of Americas. It has a land area of 51,060 km², a population of 5,105,525 people and uses the currency Costa Rican colon. The President is Carlos Alvarado Quesada.

Key facts

currency: Costa Rican colon
capital city: San José
region: Central America
continent: Americas
land area: 51,060 km²
population: 5,105,525 people
political leader: Carlos Alvarado Quesada (President)

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central government debt: 71.11 % of GDP
expense: 28.59 % of GDP
GDP: 86,497,941,439.02 current US$
inflation: 0.53 annual %
self-employed workers: 26.95 % of total employment
tax revenue: 14.35 % of GDP
unemployment: 8.32 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 24.16 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 10,000 people
democracy score: 8.07
democracy type: Full democracy
individuals using the Internet: 85.40 % of population
net migration: 995 people
press freedom: 6.39
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 47.37 %
birth rate: 11.69 per 1,000 people
death rate: 7.11 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 948.92 current US$
health expenditure: 7.57 % of GDP
incidence of HIV: 0.14 per 1,000 uninfected population
hospital beds: 1.18 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 77
suicide mortality rate: 8.10 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 18,110.00 km²
alternative and nuclear energy: 14.21 % of total energy use
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 8.57 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 100.00 % of population
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: 1.52 births per woman
forest area: 30,676 km²
fossil fuel energy consumption: 49.88 % of total
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 16.47 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 30.10
methane emissions: 5.78 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 1.74 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 2,582,392 people
male population: 2,523,133 people
renewable energy consumption: 34.20 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 49,804.71 km²
rural population: 887,238 people
urban land area: 1,475.94 km²
urban population: 4,218,287 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 0.96 % of total population

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