Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies
0.25% (9.17 kha) of Costa Rica's land cover corresponds to agricultural land and 5.3% to pasture (196 kha) (GFW, 2024).
91.8 kha (-2.4%) was the net loss of tree cover in Costa Rica between 2000 and 2020 (GFW, 2024).
29.8 kha of primary rainforest was lost in Costa Rica between 2002 and 2023, representing a reduction of 11% (GFW, 2023).
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).
76% of the surface in Costa Rica is composed of natural forest covering 3.73 Mha (GFW, 2024).
1.17 Gt is the total carbon storage in Costa Rica, with most of the carbon stored in soil (GFW, 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).
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).
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).
