Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies
7.76 kha of natural forest was lost in Costa Rica in 2023, after having 3.73 Mha in 2010, which represented 76% of its land area (GFW, 2024).
Oil palm accounts for 1.3% (68.4 kha) of the total estimated agroforestry plantation coverage in Costa Rica (GFW, 2024).
29.8 kha of primary rainforest was lost in Costa Rica between 2002 and 2023, representing a reduction of 11% (GFW, 2023).
91.8 kha (-2.4%) was the net loss of tree cover in Costa Rica between 2000 and 2020 (GFW, 2024).
0.25% (9.17 kha) of Costa Rica's land cover corresponds to agricultural land and 5.3% to pasture (196 kha) (GFW, 2024).
6.53 MtCO₂e/yr was the average annual greenhouse gas emissions due to deforestation caused by the expansion of the agricultural frontier between 2001 and 2022 in Costa Rica (GFW, 2024).
17% to 45% has been the range of participation of high-tech products among Costa Rica's exports in the last two decades, with 13% of the labor force employed by foreign companies from the zona franca regime (Campos et al., 2024).
31,638 arable hectares per worker are available in Costa Rica, being approximately 14% of the world average of 219,281 hectares per worker (Campos et al., 2024).
521,000 immigrants and only 150,000 emigrants were roughly present in Costa Rica in 2020, while Panama had 313,000 and 140,000 respectively, according to data from Expansion (Campos et al., 2024).
37th place is occupied by Costa Rica globally in the Social Progress Index, being the second highest-ranked country in Latin America and the first in the immediate region of Central America and the Caribbean (Campos et al., 2024).
