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 (%) : 98

Details

Country Capital	:	San Jose
GDP Per capita	:	31,092
GDP Per Capita Rank	:	66^th/195
Life Expectancy	:	80
Unemployment Rate	:	8
Number of Internet Users	:	4,357,017
Internet Users Rank	:	110^th/195
Area	:	51,060
Area Rank	:	126^th/195
Total Population	:	5,153
Total Population Rank	:	125^th/195

Continent: Central America and the Caribbean

Cities with > 100K popln: 11

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Costa Rica Highlights

Costa Rica is the 125^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 13^th highest ranked in Pharmacists (Per 10,000) out of 195 countries in the world. This implies better investment in healthcare infrastructure or may also imply a higher population in this country
2. The average Literacy Rate (%) of 195 countries in the world is 86. Costa Rica is the 65^th highest ranked country out of 195 countries. This indicates that there is a better educational infrastructure in this country as compared to other countries.
3. Out of the 195 countries in the world, Costa Rica is the 66^th highest ranked in GDP Per Capita (USD) . This implies that this country is a developed country.

Worse than World Average-

1. Costa Rica is the 51^st worst ranked in #Dentists out of 195 countries in the world. This may indicate worse healthcare infrastructure investment by the country or may indicate lower population
2. The average Total Military Force of the countries in the world is 358,465. Costa Rica is the 55^th worst-ranked country out of 195 countries. This may indicate that the country is facing lesser threats compared to other countries.
3. Out of the 195 countries in the world, Costa Rica is the 67^th worst ranked in Rural Pop. . This may indicate that there is a high degree of industrialisation, or better urbanisation and development policies in place 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	86	1	1128
2	Urban Population / Total Population % .	% People	60	37	1129
Below than World Average-
1	Rural Pop. /Total Pop. %	% People	40	159	1231
2	Rural Pop.	# People	18,013,759	129	1235
3	Urban Population	# People	23,726,053	107	1230
4	# Cities>300000	# Cities	8	78	1235
5	# Cities>300000	# Cities	7	68	1232
6	# Cities>100000	# Cities	23	64	1235
7	# Cities>100000	# Cities	21	60	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	1232
2	# Theaters	Count	310	39	1233
3	Theaters/Total Theaters %.	Percent	0	39	1234
4	Theaters per 100000	Ratio	1	30	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	FB Users / Total Pop. %.	% People	26	9	1128
2	FB Users / Total Int. Users %.	% People	33	11	1127
3	Facebook CPC in Rs.	Absolute	5	37	1125
4	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Population	% People	30	42	1125
5	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Internet Users	% People	33	44	1125
6	Int. Users / Total Pop.%	% People	70	70	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Internet Users	# People	28,408,774	110	1232
2	Twitter Users as a % of Total Twitter Users	% People	0	71	1233
3	Twitter users	# People	3,179,254	73	1234
4	Twitter Users as a % of Total Internet Users	% People	15	66	1235
5	Twitter Users as a % of Total Population	% People	14	65	1232
6	LinkedIn users	# People	6,064,509	60	1231
7	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total LinkedIn Users	% People	0	58	1231
8	Facebook Users as a % of Total facebook Users	% People	0	55	1233
9	Facebook users	# People	7,174,483	55	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Pharmacists (Per 10,000)	People Per 10,000	4	13	1128
2	Life Expectancy at Birth, both sexes	Age	73	39	1130
3	Nurses to doctor ratio	Ratio	46	55	1127
4	Doctors (Per 10,000)	People Per 10,000	20	66	1130
Below than World Average-
1	Dentist (per 10,000)	People per 10000	31	149	1232
2	#Dentists	# People	13,328	145	1230
3	Total No. of Doctors	# People	78,648	88	1230
4	Total Nursing	# People	163,061	77	1234
5	Nurses(per 10000)	People per 10000	164,032	77	1234
6	HIV Infections (Per 1000)	People Per 1,000	0	57	1232
7	Total No. of Pharmacists	# People	19,528	50	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Spanish	# People	2,344,008	17	1129
2	Spanish as a % of total Spanish speakers	% People	0	17	1125
Below than World Average-
1	Standard Chinese	# People	6,821,357	35	1230
2	Mandarin Chinese as a % of total Mandarin Chinese speakers	% People	0	15	1234

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Judges Per 100K	People Per 100K	11	17	1125
Below than World Average-
1	Military Force/Total World Military Force %.	% People	0	124	1230
2	Total Military Force	# People	358,465	141	1231
3	Military Force/Total Pop. %	% People	1	130	1231
4	Military Budget/Total World Military Budget %.	Percent	0	84	1231
5	Military Budget (in Billion $)	$ Billion	15	94	1234
6	Police Officers	# People	138,224	67	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Corporate Tax Rates in %	Rate	23	18	1126
2	Import Ban(Number of products)	Count	12	33	1127
3	FDI (millions USD)	Amount	3,115	44	1126
4	FDI / Total FDI of the World %.		0	44	1130
5	GDP Per Capita (USD)	$	30,070	66	1129
Below than World Average-
1	Imports /Total GDP of the Country %.		53	112	1233
2	Imports/Total Imports of the World %.		0	77	1231
3	Exports/Total GDP of the Country %.		46	79	1233
4	Import of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	183,299	78	1230
5	GDP as a % of Total GDP	Percent	0	70	1231
6	GDP (Billions USD)	$ Billions	613	70	1231
7	Export of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	186,399	70	1231
8	Exports /Total Exports of the World %.		0	66	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Christian Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	42	26	1125
Below than World Average-
1	Islamic Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	22	178	1232
2	Christian Pop./Total Christian Pop.%	% People	0	74	1232
3	Jewish Pop./Total Jewish Pop. %	% People	0	38	1233
4	Jewish Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	0	30	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Unemployment Rate.	% People	7	28	1125
2	Employment in Services / Total Labour Force %.	% People	56	62	1126
3	Employment in services/Total Labour force %.	% People	56	62	1126
4	Wage & Salaried Workers / Total Labour Force %	% People	58	66	1130
5	Employment in Services /Total pop.%.	% People	25	66	1129
6	Non-Agri Labour force/Total Labour force %.	% People	76	76	1129
7	Total Labour Force/Total Pop.	% People	43	90	1127
Below than World Average-
1	Total Labour Force (2023)	# People	20,409,734	120	1234
2	Teachers in primary edu.	# People	357,113	114	1230
3	Non-Agricultural Labour Force	# People	15,067,127	110	1234
4	Employment in Services	# People	10,251,634	109	1233
5	Employment in Agriculture	# People	5,314,003	105	1233
6	Employment in Agri. / Total Labour Force % .	% People	23	102	1231
7	Employment in Agriculture/Total Labour force %.	% People	23	102	1231
8	Formal Jobs	# People	10,605,934	100	1234
9	Employment in Agriculture /Total Pop. %.	% People	9	94	1234
10	Labour Force Participation	# People	14,659,929	94	1235
11	Unemployed Labour Force.	# People	1,511,199	73	1233

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	0	105	1233
2	Potatoes prod.	Tons	2,538,925	109	1230
3	Country forest area / Global Forest area %		0	90	1231
4	Number of Trees	Count	15,642,617,148	92	1233
5	Forest Area.	Area	21,142,892	90	1230
6	Honey Produced /Total Honey Produced %	Weight	0	84	1233
7	Sweet Potatoes prod.	Tons	895,180	88	1234
8	Onion Produced/Total Onion Produced %	Weight	0	84	1234
9	Rice Produced/Total Rice Produced.%	Weight	0	75	1233
10	Honey prod.	Tons	16,211	85	1234
11	Onion prod.	Tons	773,539	85	1230
12	Rice prod.	Tons	6,981,685	75	1230
13	Tree density .	Density	828	66	1233
14	Sugarcane prod.	Tons	52,039,862	34	1230
15	Sugarcane Produced/Total Sugarcane Produced.%	Weight	2	34	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Literacy Rate (%)	% People	86	65	1125
Below than World Average-
1	Total Literate Pop.	# People	34,678,001	116	1231
2	Enrolment in primary edu.	# People	9,629,078	112	1230
3	Enrolment in secondary edu.	# People	9,727,510	108	1233
4	# Students per teacher in secondary edu.	Ratio	57	101	1233
5	Teachers in secondary edu.	# People	659,923	100	1234
6	Enrolment in Primary Edu./ Total Literate Pop %.	% People	36	99	1235
7	# Total Students (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	38,831,325	99	1234
8	Enrolment in Primary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	27	97	1234
9	# Total Teachers (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	2,895,876	87	1231
10	Enrolment in tertiary edu.(all programmes)	# People	4,618,191	81	1231
11	Teachers as a % of Enrolment	% People	41	79	1235
12	Teachers in tertiary edu.	# People	297,976	79	1231
13	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Literate Pop.	% People	28	61	1232
14	# Students per teacher in Primary edu.	Ratio	260	51	1230
15	# Students per teacher in tertiary edu.	Ratio	58	43	1234
16	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	23	37	1233
17	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu/Total Literate Pop. %.	% People	9	28	1233
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	50	73	1129
2	Gender Ratio	Ratio of female per male, Country total female/ Country total male	1	74	1126
Below than World Average-
1	Population Growth Rate (%)	% People	0	133	1231
2	Births	# People (In Thousands)	681	132	1234
3	Male Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	21,226	126	1233
4	Total Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	42,003	125	1230
5	Female Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	20,993	124	1230
6	Male % of Total Pop.	% People	50	122	1231
7	Density ( Pop/Land Area Ratio)	Density	312	88	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Islamic Population	# People	9,936,734	165	1234
2	# Olympic Medals	Count	157	95	1234
3	World Heritage Sites	Count	7	82	1235
4	Christian Population	# People	11,885,917	75	1234
5	Jewish Population	# People	78,295	43	1231

Costa Rica Language Details

Sr.	Language	% of people speaking the language in country.
1	Spanish	98.62 %
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