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Costa Rica Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of population)

What is Costa Rica's poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of population)? As of 2023, it's 24.4%, down from 24.6% in 2014.

Author: Wantstats Research TeamSource: World Bank and Wantstats Repository
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Costa Rica Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of population) — full underlying data
LabelPoverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of population)
201424.6%
201523.6%
201622.9%
201722.1%
201822.9%
201923.9%
202030%
202126.2%
202225.5%
202324.4%

Data Source: World Bank and Wantstats Repository

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Costa Rica Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of population): Key Points

  • What jumps out first is the 1% fall — Costa Rica's poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines went from 24.60 % in 2014 to 24.40 % in 2023.
  • 2015-2017: slides to 22.10 % (-10%).
  • 2018-2020: surges to 30.00 % (+36%).
  • 2021-2023: keeps falling, down to 24.40 % (-19%).
  • 2020: This is the one COVID-era reversal in an otherwise declining trend — 23.90 to 30.00 % (~26%), tracking a global setback in the fight against poverty.
  • 2023: Closes lower than it opened — 24.40 %, a 0.8% loss over the period.

What Broke A Decade Of Progress

A 0.8% net move looks calm on paper. It is not. The actual path swings well past that number in both directions before returning close to where it began.

This uptick isn't a local failure — 2020 marked the first rise in global extreme poverty in decades, as COVID-19's economic shock hit household incomes worldwide at the same time.

A useful next step is checking whether Costa Rica's policy or economic context changed materially over this period — poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines series like this one often reflect a specific decision or shock more than a slow organic drift.

This kind of indicator is almost never measured continuously — it's estimated from periodic data collection, published and later revised by Costa Rica's statistical authority. Direction is the reliable part; individual years less so.

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