Social indicators[1]
Population: 5.13M
GDP: USD 95.4B
Gini Index: 45.8
Population growth: 0.48 %/year
GDP per capita: USD 18,587 USD
Human Development Index: 0.833
Major disasters[2]
1991 - Limon Earthquake
47 Deaths
Loss 3.02% GDP
2009 - Cinchona Earthquake
31 Deaths
Loss 0.92% GDP
2012 - Nicoya Earthquake
2 Deaths
Loss 0.09% GDP
Built environment (exposure)[3]
Replacement cost
Replacement cost (USD billions)
Residential
143
Commercial
24.2
Industrial
21.4
Total
188.6
Residential (75.8%)
Commercial (12.8%)
Industrial (11.3%)
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Historical loss exceedance curves[4]
General statistics
Catalog period:
1970 - 2022
Total reported losses:
$ 6,941M
Average annual losses:
$ 259M
Maximum individual loss:
$ 1,317M
Distribution by disaster type
Hydrological (44.9%)
Geophysical (25.2%)
Meteorological (19.5%)
Climatological (10.4%)
Other (0%)
Historical catalog
Historical Economic Loss Exceedance Curve
Hazard layers[5]
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References
1. World Development Indicators (2024). Washington DC. The World Bank. Available at: https://databank.worldbank.org/source/world-development-indicators 2. EM-DAT: The International Disaster Database EM-DAT. (2008) Available at: https://www.emdat.be/ 3. Country/Territory Seismic Risk Profiles of the GEM Foundation (2023), Available at: https://github.com/gem/risk-profiles/ 4. DesInventar Version 9.20.04 - 2020. Available at https://db.desinventar.org