Sworn Score
Country profile
Costa Rica
North America · Capital: San Jose
Score 60.5 ± 5 · Rank #57 of scored countries in 2001.
Based on 106/123 indicators, avg data age 0.1 years.
Category breakdown
How Costa Rica scores across the 7 dimensions
Weight-normalized averages over the indicators that have data. Categories below 70% coverage of their own indicators are suppressed.
Health
71.5
Economy
55.4
Governance
68.0
Education
—
Infrastructure
38.7
Environment
62.8
Rights
—
Promises
Latest promise updates
9 achieved · 5 on track · 4 failing
History
Costa Rica — Sworn Score over time
Each year is a snapshot using that year's methodology (trimmed-bounds over the trailing 5-year value pool). Click a column header to sort.
Change since 1965: +4.0 points
| Year | Score | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 60.9 | 12 |
| 1966 | 61.3 | 12 |
| 1967 | 61.5 | 13 |
| 1968 | 61.6 | 20 |
| 1969 | 61.8 | 20 |
| 1970 | — | — |
| 1971 | — | — |
| 1972 | — | — |
| 1973 | — | — |
| 1974 | — | — |
| 1975 | — | — |
| 1976 | — | — |
| 1977 | — | — |
| 1978 | — | — |
| 1979 | — | — |
| 1980 | 54.6 | 40 |
| 1981 | 56.0 | 47 |
| 1982 | 54.1 | 51 |
| 1983 | 58.5 | 51 |
| 1984 | 51.0 | 55 |
| 1985 | 50.9 | 60 |
| 1986 | 53.9 | 61 |
| 1987 | 53.8 | 64 |
| 1988 | 53.6 | 66 |
| 1989 | 52.7 | 73 |
| 1990 | 53.2 | 82 |
| 1991 | 53.3 | 82 |
| 1992 | 54.0 | 94 |
| 1993 | 54.5 | 98 |
| 1994 | 52.6 | 107 |
| 1995 | 52.6 | 108 |
| 1996 | 56.0 | 77 |
| 1997 | 57.0 | 69 |
| 1998 | 63.9 | 45 |
| 1999 | 63.8 | 47 |
| 2000 | 60.1 | 57 |
| 2001 | 60.5 | 57 |
| 2002 | 62.1 | 51 |
| 2003 | 61.6 | 52 |
| 2004 | 63.0 | 50 |
| 2005 | 63.3 | 52 |
| 2006 | 63.8 | 52 |
| 2007 | 64.0 | 51 |
| 2008 | 63.8 | 51 |
| 2009 | 63.6 | 50 |
| 2010 | 64.0 | 46 |
| 2011 | 63.9 | 46 |
| 2012 | 65.0 | 43 |
| 2013 | 64.6 | 45 |
| 2014 | 64.3 | 43 |
| 2015 | 65.3 | 41 |
| 2016 | 65.6 | 40 |
| 2017 | 65.8 | 42 |
| 2018 | 65.5 | 44 |
| 2019 | 65.6 | 47 |
| 2020 | 63.0 | 51 |
| 2021 | 64.4 | 47 |
| 2022 | 64.6 | 47 |
| 2023 | 64.9 | 46 |
| 2024 | 64.7 | 45 |
| 2025 | 63.9 | 43 |
| 2026 | 64.9 | 40 |