General economic and demographic indicators
Inequality and poverty indicators
Labour market inclusion indicators
Education Indicators
Health Indicators
OECD Regulation indicators
World Bank Doing Business Indicators
OECD Economic Surveys: Costa Rica 2018
OECD Economic Surveys: Costa Rica
Costa Rica at a glance
Abstract
General economic and demographic indicators
Note: LAC-5 is a weighted average of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico.
Source: OECD Analytical Database; World Bank Development Indicators.
Inequality and poverty indicators
Note: LAC-5 is a simple average of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico.
Source: OECD Income Distribution Database; the Global Gender Gap Report 2017 Dataset © 2017 World Economic Forum.
Labour market inclusion indicators
Source: OECD Labour Force Statistics.
Education Indicators
Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) results, 2015
Source: OECD PISA 2015 Database.
Educational Attainment and Spending
1. Expenditure on primary, secondary, post-secondary and tertiary education.
LAC-5 is a simple average of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico.
Source: OECD Education at a Glance; OECD Educational Finance Indicators; Ministerio de Hacienda.
Health Indicators
Note: LAC-5 is a simple average of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico.
Source: OECD Health Statistics Database and World Bank Development Indicators.
OECD Regulation indicators
Product Market Regulation
Note: LAC-5 is a simple average of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico. Data refer to 2013.
Source: OECD-WBG Product Market Regulation Database for all LAC countries except Brazil, Chile and Mexico, and OECD Product Market Regulation Database.
Employment Protection Legislation Indicators
Index scale of 0-6 from least to most restrictive, latest available year
Note: Data refer to 2014 for Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Slovenia and the United Kingdom; 2012 for Brazil; 2013 for others. LAC-5 is a simple average of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico.
Source: OECD Indicators of Employment Protection.
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Indicators
Note: LAC-5 refers to a simple average of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico.
Source: World Bank World Development Indicators (WDI); and OECD FDI Restrictiveness Index.
Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (STRI)
Note: LAC-4 refers to a simple average of Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico.
Source: OECD Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (STRI).
Insolvency
Source: Adalet McGowan, M., D. Andrews and V. Millot (2017), “Insolvency regimes, zombie firms and capital reallocation”, OECD Economics Department Working Papers, No. 1399, OECD Publishing, Paris, http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/5a16beda-en.
World Bank Doing Business Indicators
Distance to the frontier, 20171
1. Distance to the frontier is a measure of how far a country is from best practice, on a scale of 0-100 where 100 is best practice.
Source: World Bank Doing Business 2018 database.