Costa Rica
Costa Rica in numbers — 19 World Bank indicators, each linking to its complete year-by-year history.
Costa Rica recorded GDP per capita: 19,970 (2025), ranking 74 of 212 worldwide; Population: 5.15 million (2025), ranking 126 of 217 worldwide; Life expectancy: 81.0 (2024), ranking 47 of 217 worldwide; Inflation: -0.07% (2025), ranking 175 of 187 worldwide. The year in brackets is the reference year for that figure.
Measured across each series' full span, GDP shows the largest increase (+20176%) and Inflation the largest decrease (-109%). Every indicator below links to its complete year-by-year series.
Across the measures below it sits above the world median on slightly more than half. Measured against the median of every economy covered here, 12 of 19 comparable series are higher and 7 are lower.
Its population of 5.15 million (2025) makes it a smaller population by the standards of this dataset.
All 19 series on this page carry a value for 2023 or later.
Indicators
| Indicator | Latest | Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| GDP | 102,904,921,157.48 | 2025 | +20176.3% |
| GDP per capita | 19,970.1 | 2025 | +5123.5% |
| GDP growth | 4.56% | 2025 | +142.7% |
| Population | 5,152,950 | 2025 | +288.2% |
| Population growth | 0.45% | 2025 | -88.0% |
| Urban population | 79.73% | 2025 | +133.8% |
| Inflation | -0.07% | 2025 | -109.3% |
| Life expectancy | 81 | 2024 | +27.6% |
| Infant mortality | 9.1 | 2024 | -87.1% |
| CO2 per capita | 1.63 | 2024 | +109.3% |
| GDP (PPP) | 174,245,817,162.92 | 2025 | +1009.6% |
| GDP per capita (PPP) | 33,814.77 | 2025 | +572.2% |
| Labor participation | 57.66% | 2025 | +0.5% |
| Unemployment | 6.84% | 2025 | +27.4% |
| Internet users | 87.17% | 2024 | — |
| Electricity access | 99.8% | 2024 | +3.0% |
| Forest area | 60.4% | 2023 | +6.1% |
| Education spending | 5.31% | 2023 | -27.7% |
| Health spending | 6.87% | 2023 | +4.6% |