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Costa Rica: Population

Millions of people · 1800–2025 · 226 observations · forecasts to 2031 · pop

2025
5.32 millionpeople
Change on 2024
+0.4%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+1.0%a year

Population

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Recent values

Millions of people

YearValue
20315.48Forecast
20305.43Forecast
20295.41Forecast
20285.40Forecast
20275.38Forecast
20265.35Forecast
20255.32
20245.30
20235.26
20225.21
20215.16
20205.11
20195.06
20185.00
20174.94
20164.89

Sources

  • Federico & Tena-Junguito1800–1938
  • Gapminder1800–2023
  • Fouquin & Hugot (CEPII)1827–2014
  • MOxLAD1900–2010
  • Maddison Project Database1920–2022
  • Penn World Table1950–2019
  • WDI (archive)1960–1997
  • Central American Monetary Council (historical)1960–2017
  • OECD Economic Outlook1960–2025
  • World Development Indicators1960–2025
  • Bordo1970–1997
  • United Nations1970–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • Gapminder (forecast)2023–2030
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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