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Costa Rica — GDP per capita (PPP)
GDP per Capita (PPP) for Costa Rica, 1990–2025.
Latest value · 2025
33,815
GDP per Capita (PPP) · current international $ · +572.2% since 1990
GDP per capita (PPP) for Costa Rica was 33,815 in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 36 years, from 1990 to 2025. The latest year is also the highest value on record for this series. The lowest was 5,030 in 1990 (about 6.7× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 5.60% per year.
Costa Rica ranks 76 of 201 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 38%. The median for Latin America & Caribbean is 25,894, so Costa Rica sits above it. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved up 93%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
33,815
First (1990)
5,030
Change
+572.2%
Highest
33,815
in 2025
Lowest
5,030
in 1990
Average
14,051
Annual growth (CAGR)
5.60%
Years of data
36
Recent years
| Year | current international $ |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 33,814.77 |
| 2024 | 31,552.15 |
| 2023 | 29,247.89 |
| 2022 | 26,891.97 |
| 2021 | 24,083.6 |
| 2020 | 22,245.43 |
| 2019 | 23,461.29 |
| 2018 | 21,548.87 |
| 2017 | 20,499.34 |
| 2016 | 19,201.75 |
| 2015 | 17,525.14 |
| 2014 | 16,393.81 |
Reading this correctly. GDP per capita adjusted for purchasing power parity. More meaningful than the nominal figure when comparing actual living standards across countries with very different price levels. Figures are in current international $. Comparing this series with a different measure of the same concept (for example a nominal figure against a purchasing-power-parity figure) will give misleading results.
Related data
Source. World Bank Open Data, indicator
NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD — GDP per Capita (PPP). Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as published; this page computes the summary statistics (change, CAGR, extremes) from the underlying annual series. View the original dataset on data.worldbank.org.