Costa Rica

Economic Freedom Rating - Costa Rica Compared to Continent

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

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.