Extreme poverty rate in Costa Rica
0.8% of people in Costa Rica lived on less than $3.00 a day in 2025. The value for 2025 is the lowest in the series, which starts in 1981.
Costa Rica, 2025
0.8%
Change from 2024
−0.5percentage points
World, 2024
10.1%
Median of OECD (38 countries), 2021
0.3%
Extreme poverty rate in Costa Rica over time
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The chart shows a calculation from the published values. The table below keeps the published values.
% of population. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | Costa Rica | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.8% | – |
| 2024 | 1.3% | 10.1% |
| 2023 | 1.5% | 10.5% |
| 2022 | 1.6% | 10.9% |
| 2021 | 2.2% | 11.3% |
| 2020 | 3.4% | 11.4% |
| 2019 | 1.7% | – |
| 2018 | 2.3% | 11.1% |
| 2017 | 1.7% | 11.8% |
| 2016 | 2.4% | 12.6% |
| 2015 | 2.4% | 13.4% |
| 2014 | 2.4% | 14.5% |
| 2013 | 2.6% | 15.5% |
| 2012 | 2.6% | 17.8% |
| 2011 | 2.7% | 19.1% |
| 2010 | 2.2% | 21.0% |
| 2009 | 3.6% | 23.1% |
| 2008 | 3.4% | 24.1% |
| 2007 | 3.1% | 25.3% |
| 2006 | 5.2% | 27.0% |
| 2005 | 5.0% | 28.3% |
| 2004 | 6.6% | 30.3% |
| 2003 | 6.9% | 32.2% |
| 2002 | 6.6% | 33.7% |
| 2001 | 7.6% | 35.3% |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of −0.5 percentage points from 1.3% in 2024.
- Since 2015, when it was 2.4%, the figure has changed by −1.6 percentage points.
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Poverty rate at national poverty lines
17.1%
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Prevalence of undernourishment
2.5%
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Gini index
45.5 (0 to 100)
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Income share held by the richest 10%
34.3%
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Poverty rate at $4.20 a day (2021 PPP)
1.7%
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Poverty rate at $8.30 a day (2021 PPP)
9.7%
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