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 %)
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 |