Costa Rica

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Costa Rica is a country. The capital city is San José, located in the Central America region of Americas. It has a land area of 51,060 km², a population of 5,105,525 people and uses the currency Costa Rican colon. The President is Carlos Alvarado Quesada.

Key facts

currency: Costa Rican colon
capital city: San José
region: Central America
continent: Americas
land area: 51,060 km²
population: 5,105,525 people
political leader: Carlos Alvarado Quesada (President)

Classified as: place

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Location on a map: 10°0′N, -84°0′W

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Environment

Costa Rica is one of the countries in Americas, countries in Central America and 194 countries in our database.

Agricultural land: 18,110.00 km²
Alternative and nuclear energy: 14.21 % of total energy use
Carbon dioxide emissions (co2): 8.57 Mt of CO2 equivalent
Access to electricity: 100.00 % of population
Electricity production from coal sources: 0.00 % of total
Electricity production from natural gas sources: 0.00 % of total
Electricity production from hydroelectric sources: 74.61 % of total
Electricity production from nuclear sources: 0.00 % of total
Electricity production from oil sources: 1.00 % of total
Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric: 24.39 % of total
Net energy imports: 49.83 % of energy use
Fertility rate: 1.52 births per woman
Forest area: 30,676 km²
Fossil fuel energy consumption: 49.88 % of total
Greenhouse gas emissions (co2, ch4, n2o, hfcs, pfcs, sf6): 16.47 Mt of CO2 equivalent
Median age: 30.10
Methane emissions: 5.78 Mt of CO2 equivalent
Nitrous oxide emissions: 1.74 Mt of CO2 equivalent
Female population: 2,582,392 people
Male population: 2,523,133 people
Renewable energy consumption: 34.20 % of total final energy consumption
Rural land area: 49,804.71 km²
Rural population: 887,238 people
Urban land area: 1,475.94 km²
Urban population: 4,218,287 people
Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 0.96 % of total population

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Business

Central government debt: 71.11 % of GDP
Expense: 28.59 % of GDP
Gdp: 86,497,941,439.02 current US$
Inflation: 0.53 annual %
Self-employed workers: 26.95 % of total employment
Tax revenue: 14.35 % of GDP
Unemployment: 8.32 % of total labor force
Vulnerable employment: 24.16 % of total employment

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Politics

Armed forces personnel: 10,000 people
Democracy score: 8.07
Democracy type: Full democracy
Individuals using the internet: 85.13 % of population
Net migration: 995 people
Press freedom: 6.39
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 47.37 %

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Health

Birth rate: 11.69 per 1,000 people
Death rate: 7.11 per 1,000 people
Health expenditure per capita: 948.92 current US$
Health expenditure: 7.57 % of GDP
Incidence of hiv: 0.14 per 1,000 uninfected population
Hospital beds: 1.18 per 1,000 people
Life expectancy at birth: 77
Suicide mortality rate: 8.10 per 100,000 population

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Distribution of diseases by first founded year in Costa Rica

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Sports

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Culture

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Research

Geographical distribution of universities in Costa Rica by total students

Distribution of universities in Costa Rica per foundation year

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In literature

There are 137 books written about Costa Rica in the database

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Details

This dashboard is based on data from: SIPRI, World Bank, Reporters Without Borders

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