OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: Costa Rica 2023
Basic statistics of Costa Rica
Copy link to Basic statistics of Costa Rica2021 or latest available year (OECD values in parenthesis)a
Copy link to 2021 or latest available year (OECD values in parenthesis)<sup>a</sup>|
PEOPLE AND SOCIETY |
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Population (million) |
5.16 |
(1374) |
Population density per km2 |
101 |
(37) |
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Share of population by type of region: |
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Population compound annual growth rate, latest 5 years |
1.1 |
(0.5) |
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Predominantly urban (%) |
72 |
(49) |
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Income inequality (Gini coefficient) |
0.49 |
(0.32) |
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Intermediate (%) |
(28) |
Poverty rate (% of pop. with less than 50% median income) |
20 |
(11) |
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Rural (%) |
28 |
(23) |
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Life expectancy |
81 |
(81) |
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ECONOMY AND EXTERNAL ACCOUNTS |
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Total GDP (National currency, billion) |
40 113 |
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Exports of goods and services (% of GDP) |
37 |
(30) |
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Total GDP (USD, billion, current prices and PPPs) |
117 |
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Value added shares (%) |
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GDP compound annual real growth rate, latest 5 years |
2.5 |
(1.6) |
Agriculture |
5 |
(2) |
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GDP per capita (1 000 USD current PPPs) |
23 |
(49) |
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Industry including construction |
23 |
(24) |
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Imports of goods and services (% of GDP) |
35 |
(30) |
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Services |
73 |
(74) |
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GENERAL GOVERNMENT Percentage of GDP |
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Expenditure |
43 |
(46) |
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Education expenditure |
7.6 |
(5.3) |
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Revenue |
42 |
(39) |
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Health expenditure |
6.1 |
(8.8) |
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Gross financial debt |
68 |
(124) |
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Environment protection expenditure |
0.4 |
(0.6) |
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Fiscal balance |
-1 |
-(8) |
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Environmental taxes: (% of GDP) |
2.3 |
(1.4) |
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(% of total tax revenue) |
9.8 |
(4.6) |
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LABOUR MARKET, SKILLS AND INNOVATION |
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Unemployment rate (% of civilian labour force) |
16 |
(6) |
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Patent applications in environment-related technologies (% of all technologies, average of latest 3 years) b |
13 |
(11) |
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Tertiary educational attainment of 25-64 year-olds (%) |
25 |
(40) |
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Environmental management |
9 |
(3) |
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Gross expenditure on R&D, % of GDP |
0.4 |
(2.7) |
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Climate change mitigation technologies |
8 |
(10) |
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Climate change adaptation technologies |
0 |
(1.3) |
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ENVIRONMENT |
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Energy intensity: TES per capita (toe/cap.) |
0.98 |
(3.81) |
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Mean population exposure to air pollution (PM2.5), µg/m3 |
14.3 |
(13.9) |
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TES per GDP (toe/1 000 USD, 2015 PPPs) |
0.05 |
(0.09) |
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Water stress (abstraction as % of available resources) |
3 |
(7) |
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Renewables (% of TES) |
51.5 |
(11.6) |
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Water abstraction per capita (m3/cap./year) |
668 |
(735) |
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Carbon intensity (energy-related CO2): |
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Municipal waste per capita, (kg/capita) |
313 |
(534) |
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Emissions per capita (t/cap.) |
1.5 |
(8.3) |
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Material productivity (USD, 2015 PPPs/DMC, kg) |
1.96 |
2.45 |
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Emissions per GDP (t/1 000 USD, 2015 PPP) |
0.08 |
(0.19) |
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Land area (1 000 km2) |
51 |
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GHG intensity: c |
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% of arable land and permanent crops |
11 |
(11) |
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Emissions per capita (t/cap.) |
2.9 |
(10.5) |
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% of permanent meadows and pastures |
24 |
(23) |
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Emissions per GDP (t/1 000 USD, 2015 PPP) |
0.16 |
(0.26) |
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% of forest area |
59 |
(33) |
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% of other land (built-up and other land) |
6 |
(32) |
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a. Values earlier than 2016 are not taken into consideration. OECD value: where the OECD aggregate is not provided in the source database, a simple OECD average of the latest available data is calculated where data exist for a significant number of countries.
b. Higher-value inventions that have sought protection in at least two jurisdictions.
c. Excluding emissions/removals from land use, land-use change and forestry.
Source: Calculations based on data extracted from databases of the OECD, IEA/OECD, EUROSTAT and the World Bank.