Costa Rica

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Key Indicators
Income Group Upper middle income
Regional Group The Americas
Population (Total) 5,129,910
GDP per capita, PPP (current international $) 28,025

Performance Overview

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CRI

Country

Costa Rica

Score

53.44

Rank

52

Technology

42.38

People

43.91

Governance

62.74

Impact

64.74

Pillar: Technology Score: 42.38Rank: 70
SCORERANK

Access

60.19 79

1. Mobile tariffs

63.8564

2. Handset prices

70.1957

3. FTTH/building Internet subscriptions

28.7472

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

37.66104

5. International Internet bandwidth

74.3948

6. Internet access in schools

86.2947

Content

19.36 88

1. GitHub commits

13.1152

2. Internet domain registrations

5.7854

3. Mobile apps development

57.7787

4. AI scientific publications

0.80111

Future technologies

47.59 34

1. Adoption of emerging technologies

68.0643

2. Investment in emerging technologies

48.2548

3. Robot density

n/an/a

4. Computer software spending

26.4746
Pillar: People Score: 43.91Rank: 57
SCORERANK

Individuals

59.32 22

1. Mobile broadband internet traffic within the country

6.1588

2. ICT skills in the education system

69.7936

3. Use of virtual social networks

64.2337

4. Adult literacy rate

97.1130

5. AI talent concentration

n/an/a

Businesses

39.71 47

1. Firms with website

87.7010

2. Number of venture capital deals invested in AI

6.2149

3. Annual investment in telecommunication services

48.0274

4. Public cloud computing market scale

16.9263

Governments

32.69 87

1. Government online services

64.7770

2. Data Capabilities

30.9360

3. Government promotion of investment in emerging tech

28.5480

4. R&D expenditure by governments and higher education

6.5169
Pillar: Governance Score: 62.74Rank: 57
SCORERANK

Trust

50.67 64

1. Secure internet servers

57.2963

2. Cybersecurity

67.4283

3. Online access to financial account

51.7947

4. Internet shopping

26.1863

Regulation

78.55 33

1. Regulatory quality

61.3344

2. ICT regulatory environment

90.4828

3. Regulation of emerging technologies

60.1743

4. E-commerce legislation

100.001

5. Privacy protection by law content

80.7538

Inclusion

59.01 73

1. E-Participation

54.6566

2. Socioeconomic gap in use of digital payments

55.9291

3. Availability of local online content

60.3466

4. Gender gap in Internet use

71.6120

5. Rural gap in uses of digital payments

52.5285
Pillar: Impact Score: 64.74Rank: 29
SCORERANK

Economy

38.07 50

1. ICT patent applications

0.3559

2. Domestic market scale

47.4082

3. Prevalence of gig economy

45.6451

4. ICT services exports

58.9111

Quality of life

83.27 19

1. Happiness

93.024

2. Freedom to make life choices

94.678

3. Income inequality

41.90106

4. Healthy life expectancy at birth

82.3231

SDG Contribution

72.89 46

1. SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being

83.8734

2. SDG 4: Quality Education

27.3857

3. SDG 5: Women's economic opportunity

88.8935

4. SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy

93.4210

4. SDDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

79.8638

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