Costa Rica
General information
Capital: San José
Currency unit: Colón
Area: 51,100 km²
Total population: 5,129,910
GDP (millions of US dollars): 95,350
GDP per capita, PPP (current international US dollars): 31,107
Production
Agriculture (% of GDP): 3.9 %
Manufacture (% of GDP): 14.1 %
Industry excluding manufacture (% of GDP): 7.3 %
Services (% of GDP): 74.7 %
Trade
Total exports (millions of US dollars): 37,645
Total imports (millions of US dollars): 30,848
Main exported goods (% of total exports):
Instruments & appliances, for medical, etc. (25.0 %)
Cathode valves & tubes (15.6 %)
Fruits and nuts (excluding oil nuts), fresh or dried (13.5 %)
Miscellaneous manufactured articles (8.7 %)
Edible products and preparations (3.8 %)
National Attractiveness and Sustainability
Database under construction
| Costa Rica | ||
|---|---|---|
| National Attractiveness and Sustainability | - |
Price competitiveness
This section brings together various indicators related to the price dimension of countries’ competitiveness. These indicators include both measures of external price competitiveness (the price ratio between domestic and foreign goods in international markets) and internal price competitiveness (the price ratio between tradable and non-tradable domestic goods). All these indices are calculated for each country relative to a base year and constructed such that an increase in the index corresponds to a decline in the country’s price competitiveness.
| Costa Rica | ||
|---|---|---|
| Price competitiveness | - | |
| Nominal Effective Exchange Rate Costa Rica: 121 | 121 | |
| Real Effective Exchange Rate Costa Rica: 106 | 106 | |
| Internal Real Exchange Rate Costa Rica: 81 | 81 |
Revealed Competitiveness
This section brings together measures of countries’ revealed competitiveness in international markets, that is, their ability to export to those markets. These measures of export competitiveness are therefore the result of the price and non-price competitiveness factors presented in the sections “National Attractiveness and Sustainability” and “Price Competitiveness.” They are defined on a scale ranging from 0 to 10,000, with a higher value indicating greater export competitiveness in international markets.
| Costa Rica | ||
|---|---|---|
| Revealed Competitiveness | - | |
| Global Market Share Costa Rica: 16 | 16 | |
| Revealed Competitiveness Index Costa Rica: 80 | 80 |