Facts and figures of Costa Rica

(Numbers in parentheses refer to the OECD average)

The land, people and electoral cycle
Population (million)	4.8	Official language	Spanish
Under 15 (%)	22 (18)	Form of government	Constitutional republic
Population density (per km2)	94 (37)	Last election	February 2nd 2014
Land area (thousand km2)	51.1

The economy
GDP, current prices (billion USD)	54.1	Exports of goods and services (% of GDP)	30.5 (28.5)
GDP growth	3.7 (2.1)	Imports of goods and services (% of GDP)	32.2 (28.2)
GDP per capita, PPP (constant 2011 international dollars)	14.6 (38.0)	GDP shares (%)
Inflation rate	0.8 (0.2)	Agriculture, forestry and fishing	5.5 (1.6)
General government total expenditure (% of GDP)	19.3	Industry, including construction	22.2 (24.2)
General government revenue (% of GDP)	13.6	Services	72.3 (74.2)

Well-being
Life satisfaction (average on 1-10 scale)b	6.9 (6.5)	Proportion of population under national minimum income standard (%)b	21.7
Life expectancya	79 (80)	Unemployment rate (%)a	8.3 (7.3)
Income inequality (Gini coefficient)a	49 (32)	Youth unemployment rate (ages 15 to 24, %)a	19.2 (16.4)
Gender inequality (SIGI index)a	0.05 (0.02)	Satisfaction with the availability of affordable housing (% satisfied)b	45 (46)
Labour force participation (% of 15 to 64 year old)a	68 (71)	Enrolment ratesa
Employment-to-population ratio (15 and over, %)a	58 (55)	Primary (Net)	96 (96)
Population with access to improved sanitation facilities (%)b	95	Secondary (Gross)	120 (104)
Mean years of schoolingb	8.6	Tertiary (Gross)	53 (70)
← a. Data for 2014.
← b. Data for 2015.
Sources: World Bank, World Development Indicators (database), http://data.worldbank.org/, Washington DC; OECD, SIGI Social Institutions and Gender index, http://www.genderindex.org/; IMF, World Economic Outlook Database, International Monetary Fund, October 2016 edition, Washington DC; UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Data Centre, http://data.uis.unesco.org/; Gallup (2015), Gallup World Poll (database), Gallup Organisation.