Costa Rica

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Key Indicators
Income Group High-income
Regional Group The Americas
Population (Total) 5,106,000
GDP per capita, PPP (current international $) 31,485

Performance Overview

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CRI

Country

Costa Rica

Score

54.76

Rank

42

Technology

42.82

People

43.62

Governance

67.47

Impact

65.13

Pillar: Technology Score: 42.82Rank: 67
SCORERANK

Access

63.60 78

1. Mobile tariffs

58.2982

2. Handset prices

59.2273

3. FTTH/building Internet subscriptions

29.7670

4. Population covered by at least a 3G mobile network

73.68100

5. International Internet bandwidth

74.3948

6. Internet access in schools

86.2949

Content

19.55 84

1. GitHub commits

1351

2. Internet domain registrations

6.3753

3. Mobile apps development

58.2785

4. AI scientific publications

0.56104

Future technologies

45.32 37

1. Adoption of emerging technologies

68.0643

2. Investment in emerging technologies

48.2548

3. Robot density

n/a n/a

4. Computer software spending

19.6554
Pillar: People Score: 43.62Rank: 54
SCORERANK

Individuals

54.23 51

1. Mobile broadband internet traffic within the country

6.6687

2. ICT skills in the education system

66.936

3. Use of virtual social networks

77.5339

4. Adult literacy rate

96.9627

5. AI talent concentration

23.131

Businesses

43.81 34

1. Firms with website

88.4415

2. Number of venture capital deals invested in AI

n/a n/a

3. Annual investment in telecommunication services

38.6472

4. Public cloud computing market scale

4.3564

Governments

32.81 87

1. Government online services

66.5271

2. Data Capabilities

30.9360

3. Government promotion of emerging technologies

28.5479

4. Gross expenditure on R&D

5.2469
Pillar: Governance Score: 67.47Rank: 49
SCORERANK

Trust

53.88 66

1. Secure internet servers

61.1866

2. Cybersecurity

70.0587

3. Online access to financial account

61.2315

4. Internet shopping

23.0767

Regulation

74.48 32

1. Regulatory quality

55.8346

2. ICT regulatory environment

83.1238

3. Regulation of emerging technologies

56.8643

4. E-commerce legislation

1001

5. Privacy protection by law content

76.6136

Inclusion

74.03 42

1. E-Participation

71.0149

2. Socioeconomic gap in use of digital payments

62.5978

3. Gender gap in Internet use

69.9316

4. Rural gap in use of digital payments

92.593
Pillar: Impact Score: 65.13Rank: 28
SCORERANK

Economy

40.54 36

1. ICT patent applications

0.3961

2. Domestic market scale

47.8781

3. Technology-Enabled Work Flexibility

6428

4. ICT services exports

49.9013

Quality of life

80.97 18

1. Happiness

89.686

2. Freedom to make life choices

91.6714

3. Income inequality

43.88102

4. Healthy life expectancy at birth

79.2832

SDG Contribution

73.89 43

1. SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being

1001

2. SDG 4: Quality Education

27.3857

3. SDG 5: Women's economic opportunity

88.1834

4. SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy

91.3910

5. SDDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

77.1838

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