Costa Rica Analytics

Costa Rica is a mid-size country with 0.1% of the world's population. Costa Rica is a democratic republic country. It has 4 world heritage sites.

LANGUAGES

Official Language:
1. Spanish : 5,082,000
2. Standard Chinese : 10,000

Mother Tongue : Spanish

Literacy Rate (%) : 97.9

Details

Country Capital	:	San Jose
GDP Per capita	:	25,000
GDP Per Capita Rank	:	65^th/195
Life Expectancy	:	77
Unemployment Rate	:	8
Number of Internet Users	:	4,316,000
Internet Users Rank	:	103^rd/195
Area	:	51,060
Area Rank	:	126^th/195
Total Population	:	5,154
Total Population Rank	:	120^th/195

Continent: Central America and the Caribbean

Cities with > 100K popln: 11

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Costa Rica Highlights

Costa Rica is the 120^th ranked country in population and 126^th ranked in area out of 195 countries in the world.Please keep the country rank in perspective, for the highlights below.

Better than World Average-

1. Costa Rica is the 72^nd highest ranked in Literacy Rate (%) out of 195 countries in the world. This indicates that there is a better educational infrastructure in this country as compared to other countries.

Worse than World Average-

1. Costa Rica is the 57^th worst ranked in Total Military Force out of 195 countries in the world. This may indicate that the country is facing lesser threats compared to other countries.
2. The average Rural Pop. of the countries in the world is 36,027,518. Costa Rica is the 67^th worst-ranked country out of 195 countries. This may indicate that there is a high degree of industrialisation, or better urbanisation and development policies in place in comparison to other countries.
3. Out of the 195 countries in the world, Costa Rica is the 76^th worst ranked in Total Population (2021) . Taking into context the total population of the world, this country is less populated in comparison to other countries.

Costa Rica Metrics

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Internet

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Pop. with access to Electricity (%)	% People	85	1	1125
2	Urban Population / Total Population % .	% People	59	41	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Rural Pop. /Total Pop. %	% People	41	156	1231
2	Rural Pop.	# People	36,027,518	130	1232
3	Urban Population (2021)	# People	22,563,215	100	1234
4	# Cities>300000	# Cities	8	78	1235
5	# Cities>300000	# Cities	14	69	1231
6	# Cities>100000	# Cities	23	64	1232
7	# Cities>100000	# Cities	42	61	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Corporate Tax Rates in %	Rate	23	3	1129
2	Import Ban(Number of products)	Count	12	33	1126
Below than World Average-
1	Imports /Total GDP of the Country %.		52	95	1231
2	GDP as a % of Total GDP	Percent	1	77	1234
3	GDP (Billions USD) 2022	$ Billions	531	82	1234
4	Imports/Total Imports of the World %.		0	74	1234
5	Import of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	182,282	74	1235
6	Exports /Total Exports of the World %.		0	70	1235
7	Exports/Total GDP of the Country %.		45	73	1235
8	FDI (millions USD)	Amount	10,566	72	1234
9	Export of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	184,833	72	1234
10	GDP Per Capita (USD)	$	25,265	65	1234
11	FDI / Total FDI of the World %.		0	53	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	# Phone Numbers /Total Pop. %	Percent	101	4	1125
Below than World Average-
1	# Mobile phone numbers	Count	40,393,496	85	1234
2	# Theaters	Count	310	39	1231
3	Theaters/Total Theaters %.	Percent	1	40	1233
4	Theaters per 100000	Ratio	1	30	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Spanish	# People	2,344,008	17	1125
2	Spanish as a % of total Spanish speakers	% People	0	17	1129
Below than World Average-
1	Standard Chinese	# People	6,821,357	35	1232
2	Mandarin Chinese as a % of total Mandarin Chinese speakers	% People	0	15	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Judges Per 100K	People Per 100K	11	17	1129
Below than World Average-
1	Military Force/Total World Military Force %.	% People	1	125	1230
2	Total Military Force	# People	353,432	139	1233
3	Military Force/Total Pop. %	% People	1	129	1235
4	Military Budget/Total World Military Budget %.	Percent	1	85	1230
5	Military Budget (in Billion $)	$ Billion	15	94	1232
6	Police Officers	# People	138,224	67	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Christian Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	42	18	1127
Below than World Average-
1	Islamic Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	22	180	1235
2	Christian Pop./Total Christian Pop.%	% People	1	74	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	FB Users / Total Pop. %.	% People	54	32	1129
2	FB Users / Total Int. Users %.	% People	76	46	1129
3	Int. Users / Total Pop.%	% People	67	63	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Internet Users	# People	25,030,008	103	1235
2	Facebook users	# People	16,391,045	82	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Employment in Services /Total pop.%.	% People	25	46	1130
2	Employment in Services / Total Labour Force %.	% People	55	57	1125
3	Employment in services/Total Labour force %.	% People	56	57	1127
4	Total Labour Force/Total Pop.	% People	43	62	1130
5	Wage & Salaried Workers / Total Labour Force %	% People	58	70	1127
6	Non-Agri Labour force/Total Labour force %.	% People	76	81	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Total Labour Force (2021)	# People	19,636,200	115	1233
2	Teachers in primary edu.	# People	357,113	114	1231
3	Non-Agricultural Labour Force	# People	28,805,473	108	1233
4	Employment in Agriculture	# People	10,466,926	105	1231
5	Employment in Services	# People	19,494,546	102	1235
6	Employment in Agri. / Total Labour Force % .	% People	24	98	1232
7	Employment in Agriculture/Total Labour force %.	% People	24	99	1233
8	Formal Jobs	# People	20,455,444	96	1233
9	Employment in Agriculture /Total Pop. %.	% People	9	87	1235
10	Labour Force Participation	# People	23,249,057	77	1231
11	Unemployment Rate.	% People	13	58	1235
12	Unemployed Labour Force.	# People	3,296,469	51	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Life Expectancy at Birth, both sexes	Age	71	47	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Dentist (per 10,000)	People per 10000	35	150	1231
2	Total No. of Doctors	# People	118,384	73	1231
3	Total No. of Pharmacists	# People	28,678	67	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Tree density.	Density	22,685	50	1126
Below than World Average-
1	Potatoes Produced /Total Potatoes Produced %	Weight	1	105	1232
2	Potatoes prod.	Weight	2,516,782	106	1230
3	Country forest area / Global Forest area %		0	90	1233
4	Number of Trees	Count	15,642,617,148	92	1233
5	Forest Area.	Area	21,142,892	90	1233
6	Sweet Potatoes prod.	Weight	833,178	87	1232
7	Rice Produced/Total Rice Produced.%	Weight	1	75	1235
8	Onion Produced/Total Onion Produced %	Weight	1	81	1232
9	Honey Produced /Total Honey Produced %	Weight	1	76	1234
10	Honey prod.	Weight	14,821	80	1234
11	Onion prod.	Weight	759,968	80	1230
12	Rice prod.	Weight	6,871,329	75	1233
13	Tree density .	Density	828	66	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Literacy Rate (%)	% People	86	72	1130
Below than World Average-
1	Total Literate Pop.	# People	68,251,097	116	1230
2	Enrolment in primary edu.	# People	9,629,078	112	1232
3	Enrolment in secondary edu.	# People	9,727,510	108	1231
4	# Students per teacher in secondary edu.	Ratio	57	101	1235
5	Teachers in secondary edu.	# People	659,923	100	1231
6	Enrolment in Primary Edu./ Total Literate Pop %.	% People	36	99	1230
7	# Total Students (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	38,831,325	99	1232
8	Enrolment in Primary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	27	97	1234
9	# Total Teachers (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	2,895,876	87	1230
10	Enrolment in tertiary edu.(all programmes)	# People	4,618,191	81	1234
11	Teachers in tertiary edu.	# People	297,976	79	1230
12	Teachers as a % of Enrolment	% People	41	79	1235
13	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Literate Pop.	% People	28	61	1233
14	# Students per teacher in Primary edu.	Ratio	260	51	1230
15	# Students per teacher in tertiary edu.	Ratio	58	43	1230
16	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	23	37	1235
17	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu/Total Literate Pop. %.	% People	9	28	1232
18	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu./ Total Pop. %.	% People	9	26	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Female % of Total Pop.	% People	49	123	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Births	# People (In Thousands)	688	126	1230
2	Population Growth Rate (%)	% People	1	121	1233
3	Male Population	# People (In Thousands)	20,393	122	1232
4	Female Population	# People (In Thousands)	20,160	121	1235
5	Total Population (2021)	# People (In Thousands)	40,345	120	1230
6	Male % of Total Pop.	% People	50	71	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Islamic Population	# People	9,744,062	166	1231
2	# Olympic Medals	Count	126	87	1231
3	World Heritage Sites	Count	7	78	1234
4	Christian Population	# People	11,763,461	73	1233

Costa Rica Language Details

Sr.	Language	% of people speaking the language in country.
1	Spanish	98.6 %
2	Standard Chinese	0.19 %

Sr.	City	Total City Population (2023)
1	Alajuela	310,687
2	Cartago	165,929
3	Desamparados	246,026
4	Goicoechea	139,335
5	Heredia	142,776
6	La Unión	112,427
7	Pérez Zeledón	148,408
8	Pococí	148,304
9	Puntarenas	138,083
10	San Carlos	132,138
11	San José	351,257