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Costa Rica — GDP per capita
GDP per Capita (Nominal) for Costa Rica, 1960–2025.
Latest value · 2025
19,970
GDP per Capita (Nominal) · current US$ · +5123.5% since 1960
GDP per capita for Costa Rica was 19,970 in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 66 years, from 1960 to 2025. The latest year is also the highest value on record for this series. The lowest was 335 in 1962 (about 59.6× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 6.27% per year.
Costa Rica ranks 74 of 212 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 35%. The median for Latin America & Caribbean is 13,889, so Costa Rica sits above it. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved up 70%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
19,970
First (1960)
382
Change
+5123.5%
Highest
19,970
in 2025
Lowest
335
in 1962
Average
4,774
Annual growth (CAGR)
6.27%
Years of data
66
Recent years
| Year | current US$ |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 19,970.1 |
| 2024 | 18,853.28 |
| 2023 | 17,140.77 |
| 2022 | 13,971.76 |
| 2021 | 12,962.27 |
| 2020 | 12,475.69 |
| 2019 | 12,951.86 |
| 2018 | 12,620.02 |
| 2017 | 12,317.09 |
| 2016 | 12,091.03 |
| 2015 | 11,714.71 |
| 2014 | 10,911.5 |
Reading this correctly. Nominal GDP divided by midyear population. A rough proxy for average income; it does not account for income distribution. Figures are in current US$. 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.CD — GDP per Capita (Nominal). 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.