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Costa Rica

Americas · Central America
Your score
65.2
out of 100
Rank
#73
of 224
Population
5.2M
CRC
Coverage
100%
active metrics

Strongest dimensions (given your values)

  • Happiness6.96'23
  • Life expectancy80.8'23
  • Healthcare quality77'17
  • Press freedom76'24
  • Human Development Index0.833'23

Weakest dimensions

  • GDP per capita$18.6k'24
  • Safety38~
  • Education quality59~
  • Gender equality79'24
  • Clean governance (inv. corruption)58'24

All metrics

Development

  • GDP per capita$18.6k'24
  • Human Development Index0.833'23
  • Economic growth3.5%
  • Unemployment rate8.5%'23
  • Income equality (inverted Gini)53'22
  • Innovation index28'24

Quality of life

  • Life expectancy80.8'23
  • Happiness6.96'23
  • Safety38~
  • Healthcare quality77'17
  • Education quality59~
  • Cost of living52'24
  • Internet speed97 Mbps'24
  • Sunshine2,103'23

Environment & governance

  • Clean governance (inv. corruption)58'24
  • Press freedom76'24
  • Political stability83'22
  • Renewable energy share99.9%'23
  • Air quality71'20
  • Gender equality79'24
  • Forest cover (proxy for green space)60'23
  • Public transit (proxy: urban population)est.83'23

Creative & cultural

  • Coffee cultureplayful78
  • Food varietyplayful48
  • Music influenceplayful48
  • Literary outputplayful52
  • Festival frequencyplayful72
  • Wildlife densityplayful93
  • Adventure scoreplayful82
  • Beach qualityplayful82
  • Ghost-story richnessplayful68
  • Board-game cultureplayful55
  • Meme cultureplayful62
  • Astronomy potentialest.58
  • Cheese varietyplayful44
  • Puzzle-solving prowessplayful38
  • Time-travel appealplayful50

About the data

Cells marked with a year use real public data from UNDP, the World Bank, Our World in Data, Transparency International or sunshine-hour composites. Unmarked values are curated or playful estimates — see the i tooltip on each metric in the sidebar for its source.