Costa Rica

Economic Freedom Rating - Costa Rica Compared to Continent

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Chile	79.79
El Salvador	69.21
Uruguay	68.09
Mexico	66.37
Costa Rica	64.75
Panama	64.65
Peru	63.46
Colombia	61.91
Paraguay	60.53
Guatemala	60.50
Honduras	60.23
Nicaragua	59.95
Brazil	55.92
Ecuador	55.39
Argentina	55.11
Suriname	53.89
Bolivia	53.25
Guyana	49.35
Venezuela	44.96

Costa Rica: Economic freedom rating

Scores are from 0 to 100, higher scores are more desirable i.e. more conducive to economic growth. The lower the score, the greater the level of government interference in the economy and the less economic freedom a country enjoys.

• Free— 80 - 100;
• Mostly Free— 70 - 79.9;
• Moderately Free— 60 - 69.9;
• Mostly Unfree— 50 to 59.9; and
• Repressed— 0 - 49.9.

Source: The Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal

Costa Rica does not publish house price statistics. The Banco Central de Costa Rica has general statistics on production, employment, business confidence, the country’s fiscal position, etc. The Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos has rather basic web pages. The Ministerio de Hacienda de la Republica de Costa Rica has quite a creditable-looking set of pages, but some of the actual data is very old.