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IndicatorCRICosta RicaLatin America & Caribbean
Governance
Civil liberties index (V-Dem)0-10.93rank #13
Control of Corruption0-100 percentile61.6rank #50
Deliberative democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.79rank #9
Egalitarian democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.76rank #10
Freedom of expression index (V-Dem)0-10.92rank #18
Government Effectiveness0-100 percentile56.9rank #78
Human rights index (V-Dem)0-10.93rank #13
Participatory democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.61rank #11
Political Stability & Absence of Violence0-100 percentile86rank #23
Regulatory Quality0-100 percentile64rank #55
Rule of Law0-100 percentile67.6rank #58
Rule of law index (V-Dem)0-10.94rank #22
V-Dem electoral democracy0-10.86rank #8
V-Dem liberal democracy0-10.81rank #7
Voice & Accountability0-100 percentile74.6rank #34
Women in parliament% seats49.1%rank #7
Women's political empowerment index (V-Dem)0-10.91rank #18
Economy
Agricultural employment% employment11.5%rank #100
Agriculture value added% GDP3.4%rank #106
Annual working hours per workerhours2,176.9rank #34
Capital stock per worker2017 US$ per worker96,263.8rank #107
Current account balance% GDP-0.67%rank #47
Employment-to-population ratio%54%rank #120
FDI net inflows% GDP5.4%rank #14
GDPcurrent US$102.9Brank #73
GDP growth%4.6%rank #54
GDP per capita (nominal)current US$19,970.1rank #55
GDP per capita, PPP2021 intl $28,443.4rank #66
GNI per capita (PPP)2021 intl $23,417.2rank #68
Government expenditure% GDP28.6%rank #38
Gross capital formation% GDP15.8%rank #114
Gross savings% GDP13.6%rank #65
High-technology exports% manuf. exports22.9%rank #24
Human capital indexindex2.7rank #84
Industry value added% GDP19.9%rank #114
Inflation%-0.07%rank #12
Labour force participation rate%57.6%rank #119
Personal remittances received% GDP0.83%rank #64
R&D expenditure% GDP0.34%rank #59
Researchers in R&Dper million507.8rank #60
Tax revenue% GDP13.5%rank #66
Total factor productivity (current PPPs, USA=1)index (USA=1)0.77rank #41
Trade openness% GDP71.5%rank #78
Unemployment% labor force6.8%rank #123
Unemployment rate (ILO modelled)%6.3%rank #118
Vulnerable employment% employment23.4%rank #77
Youth unemployment% ages 15-2419.9%rank #134
Youth unemployment rate (ILO modelled)% ages 15-2418.2%rank #125
Health
Basic drinking water access% pop99.8%rank #27
Basic sanitation access% pop98.8%rank #44
Child mortalityper 1001rank #51
Daily caloric supply per capitakcal3,061.1rank #77
DTP3 immunization coverage%99%rank #1
Health spending% GDP6.9%rank #86
Infant mortalityper 1k births9.1rank #46
Life expectancyyears81rank #47
Maternal mortalityper 100k24rank #21
Measles immunization% children93%rank #7
Measles (MCV1) immunization coverage%93%rank #7
Physiciansper 1k2.7rank #57
PM2.5 air pollution exposureug/m317.7rank #101
Road traffic deathsper 100k14.8rank #59
Smoking prevalence% adults7.9%rank #13
Suicide mortality rateper 100k8.1rank #100
Tuberculosis incidenceper 100k9.3rank #42
Under-5 mortality rateper 1k births10.4rank #79
Undernourishment% pop2.5%rank #1
Education
Adult literacy%97.4%rank #17
Education spending% GDP5.3%rank #22
Expected years of schoolingyears16.3rank #39
Mean years of schoolingyears8.8rank #114
Primary completion rate% relevant age106.4%rank #12
Primary enrollment% gross104.8%rank #37
Secondary enrollment% gross121.8%rank #9
Tertiary enrollment% gross55%rank #56
Demography
Crude birth rateper 1,00010rank #153
Fertility ratebirths/woman1.3rank #176
Median age of populationyears34.1rank #88
Net migration rateper 1,0000.2rank #88
Populationpeople5.15Mrank #126
Population growth%0.45%rank #143
Projected life expectancy in 2050 (medium)years85.3rank #41
Projected population in 2050 (medium)thousands5,354.2rank #128
Total age dependency ratioper 100 working-age45rank #176
Urban population%79.7%rank #48
Climate
CO₂ emissionst8.76Mrank #114
CO₂ per capitat1.7rank #131
Electricity access% pop99.8%rank #3
Electricity from coal% generation0%rank #1
Electricity from hydro% generation74.8%rank #8
Electricity from solar% generation0.7%rank #76
Electricity from wind% generation12.1%rank #24
Electric power consumptionkWh per capita2,282.3rank #39
Forest area% land60.4%rank #27
GHG emissions per capitatCO2e per capita3.3rank #68
Power-sector CO2 intensitygCO2/kWh24.2rank #2
Renewable electricity%100%rank #1
Renewable energy share%34.2%rank #65
Total GHG emissions incl. LULUCFMtCO2e17rank #63
Society
Asylum seekerspeople1,820rank #85
Extreme poverty% pop0.8%rank #1
Female labor participation%46%rank #134
Fixed broadband subscriptionsper 10023.3rank #70
Gender Development Indexratio0.98rank #47
Gender Inequality Index0-10.22rank #50
Gini indexindex45.5rank #3
Homicide rateper 100k17.7rank #70
Human Development Index0-10.83rank #49
Inequality-adjusted HDI0-10.68rank #54
Internet users% pop87.2%rank #71
Life satisfaction0-107.4rank #4
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI0-10.77rank #14
Poverty gap at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #64
Poverty headcount at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #33
Poverty headcount at $3.65/dayproportion (0-1)0.01rank #64
Poverty headcount at $6.85/dayproportion (0-1)0.05rank #81
Refugees hosted (by country of asylum)people36,395rank #71
Refugees originating (by country of origin)people367rank #55
Youth NEET rate%18.5%rank #94
Risk
Deaths in armed conflictsdeaths158rank #19
Hazard & exposure0-104.7rank #41
Human hazard & exposure0-103.9rank #33
INFORM risk score0-103.7rank #26
Lack of coping capacity0-102.2rank #14
Lack of infrastructure coping capacity0-101.7rank #14
Lack of institutional coping capacity0-102.7rank #11
Natural hazard & exposure0-105.4rank #41
Organized-violence deaths (total)deaths/year142rank #21
Socio-economic vulnerability0-102.1rank #22
Vulnerability0-105rank #39
Vulnerable groups0-107rank #62
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