Costa Rica poverty rate for 2023 was 12.70%, a 1.4% decline from 2022.
Costa Rica poverty rate for 2022 was 14.10%, a 0.4% decline from 2021.
Costa Rica poverty rate for 2021 was 14.50%, a 5.4% decline from 2020.
Costa Rica poverty rate for 2020 was 19.90%, a 6.2% increase from 2019.
Poverty headcount ratio at $5.50 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $5.50 a day at 2011 international prices. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions.
