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Costa Rica
Electric power consumption (kWh per capita)

Electric power consumption measures the production of power plants and combined heat and power plants less transmission, distribution, and transformation losses and own use by heat and power plants.

Global rank#39out of 41 countries
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Historical trend

2.3 K2.0 K1.7 K1.4 K1.1 K199020072024Costa Rica · 2024: 2,282.30Costa Rica

Analytical takeaways

  • Costa Rica records 2,282.30 for Electric power consumption (kWh per capita) in 2024, ranking #39 globally out of 41 countries.
  • Electric power consumption (kWh per capita) increased from 1,071.21 in 1990 to 2,282.30 in 2024, a gain of 1,211.09.
  • The country sits in the bottom quartile of the global distribution for this metric, which also makes the page relevant for low-value and lagging-performance searches.

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