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Costa Rica

5,152,950

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+23.04K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+30.9%from 3.94M
Life expectancy81.0 years2024
Fertility rate1.32births per woman · 2024
Urban population79.7%2025
RegionLatin America & Caribbean High income

A country at every age

How Costa Rica is shaped by age.

Most people are in the working ages, with the younger and older generations shaping what comes next.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1418.3%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6468.9%Working-age population
Ages 65+12.8%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate10.0births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate5.6deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+4.4births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration+1Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Costa Rica look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 5.35M in 2050—4.4% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 20245.13M
  2. 20505.35M
  3. 21003.78M
Median age in 205047.0years
Births in 205040.86Kduring the year
Deaths in 205051.37Kduring the year
Life expectancy85.3years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19601.33M
  2. 19701.84M
  3. 19802.39M
  4. 19903.12M
  5. 20003.94M
  6. 20104.56M
  7. 20205.03M
  8. 20255.15M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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