🇨🇷Costa Rica

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Population

5.2M

0.4%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

1.32

births/woman

Life Expectancy

81.0y

GDP / capita

$20K

Pop. Growth

0.45%

Net Migration

Population over time

Total population · observed (solid) and UN medium projection to 2100 (dashed)

Source: World Bank · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Fertility rate over time

Births per woman · dashed line = replacement (2.1)

Source: World Bank

Where immigrants come from

Largest foreign-born communities in Costa Rica by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇳🇮Nicaragua423.4K(69.6%)

+47%

🇻🇪Venezuela, RB34K(5.6%)

25×

🇨🇴

Population projections to 2100

Official UN projections — Low / Medium / High variants

Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024

Population pyramid (2025)

Age & sex structure · share of total population by 5-year cohort

Male2.5MTotal 5.2M2.6MFemale

Source: birthrate.io model

GDP per capita over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Life expectancy over time

Years at birth

Source: World Bank

Society, housing & beliefs

Family, crime, housing and religion indicators

Homicide rate

17.7

per 100,000

Divorce rate

—

per 1,000

Births outside marriage

—

of births

Home ownership

—

of households

Homicide rate over time

Intentional homicides per 100,000 people

Source: World Bank / UNODC

GDP over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Net migration over time

Net migrants per year (immigrants − emigrants)

Source: World Bank

Foreign-born population over time

Immigrant / diaspora population living in the country

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

Foreign-born share over time

Foreign-born residents as % of the population

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

🇸🇻El Salvador20.1K(3.3%)

+47%

🇺🇸United States18.4K(3.0%)

+47%

🇵🇦Panama16.5K(2.7%)

+47%

🇨🇺Cuba8.3K(1.4%)

+47%

🇭🇳Honduras5.7K(0.9%)

+47%

🇵🇪Peru5.5K(0.9%)

+47%

🇲🇽Mexico4.5K(0.7%)

+47%

🇬🇹Guatemala3.9K(0.6%)

+47%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024

Where the Costa Rica diaspora lives

Top destinations for people born in Costa Rica who now live abroad (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇵🇦Panama14.2K(27.9%)

+114%

🇳🇮Nicaragua11.7K(23.0%)

+17%

🇨🇦Canada5.1K(10.0%)

+19%

🇲🇽Mexico4.6K(9.0%)

+84%

🇨🇴Colombia2.1K(4.1%)

+88%

🇮🇹Italy1.8K(3.6%)

+54%

🇬🇹Guatemala1.4K(2.7%)

+36%

🇨🇱Chile1.1K(2.1%)

+70%

🇻🇪Venezuela, RB1K(2.0%)

−10%

🇵🇪Peru912(1.8%)

+161%

🇸🇻El Salvador901(1.8%)

+7%

🇭🇳Honduras895(1.8%)

+46%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024