$19,970
Economic output per person at current market exchange rates.
Latin America · CRI
Costa Rica market indicators
A compact view of economic scale, momentum and digital access. Each card uses the latest observation available from the source.
- Capital
- San Jose
- Income group
- High income
- World Bank region
- Latin America & Caribbean
- Country codes
- CRI · CR
4.56%
Annual percentage growth of inflation-adjusted GDP.
-0.07%
Annual change in consumer prices.
5,152,950
Total resident population.
0.45%
Annual population growth rate.
87.17%
Share of people who used the internet recently.
23.29
Fixed high-speed internet subscriptions per 100 people.
6.84%
Modeled ILO estimate of unemployment.
71.49%
Exports plus imports as a share of GDP.
81.00
Expected years of life under current mortality patterns.
Data-led reading
What the latest series says
Automatically calculated from the observations above; descriptive, not a forecast.
Income trend
$19,970 per person
Costa Rica's GDP per capita was $19,970 in 2025. In current-dollar terms it increased by 60.1% from the closest observation around five years earlier; exchange rates and inflation are part of that movement.
Economic pulse
4.56% real growth
Real GDP growth was 4.56% in 2025. Consumer-price inflation was -0.07% in 2025 and modeled unemployment was 6.84% in 2025. These series may refer to different reporting years.
Digital reach
87.17% online
Internet use reached 87.17% of the population in 2024, while fixed broadband subscriptions were 23.29 per 100 people in 2024. A subscription can serve multiple users, so the measures answer different questions.
People & connections
5,152,950 residents
The population grew at 0.45% in 2025. Life expectancy was 81.00 years, while exports plus imports equaled 71.49% of GDP in their respective latest observations.
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