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

National poverty headcount ratio is the percentage of the population living below the national poverty line(s). National estimates are based on population-weighted subgroup estimates from household surveys. For economies for which the data are from EU-SILC, the reported year is the income reference year, which is the year before the survey year.

Global rank#4out of 5 countries
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Historical trend

31.928.124.320.516.7198920072025Costa Rica · 2025: 17Costa Rica

Analytical takeaways

  • Costa Rica records 17 for Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of population) in 2025, ranking #4 globally out of 5 countries.
  • Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of population) declined from 28 in 1989 to 17 in 2025, a decrease of 11.
  • 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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