Costa Rica poverty rate for 2024 was 12.60%, a 2.7% decline from 2023.
Costa Rica poverty rate for 2023 was 15.30%, a 1.8% decline from 2022.
Costa Rica poverty rate for 2022 was 17.10%, a 0.7% decline from 2021.
Costa Rica poverty rate for 2021 was 17.80%, a 5.5% decline from 2020.
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.