This document compares several countries across various economic, human development, environmental, and happiness metrics. It shows that Costa Rica has a GDP per capita of $11,400 and GDP growth rate of 3.5%, with an unemployment rate of 4.2%. Costa Rica also scores highly on human development metrics like literacy, school life expectancy, and low death rate. It has high access to safe drinking water and moderate CO2 emissions and ecological footprint. Costa Rica also has a relatively high life expectancy, life satisfaction, and Happy Planet Index, making it an appealing choice overall.

2. Criteria

3. GDP per capita
Economic Development GDP real growth rate
Unemployment rate

4. $11,400
GDP per capita
$10,700
$37,000
$3,100

5. GDP real
1.8% 3.5%
growth rate
6.8%
3.0%

6. Unemployment 4.2%
rate
6.6%
6.4%
23.3%

7. Literacy
Human Development School life expectancy
Death rate

8. 86.4%
Literacy
94.9%
90.3%
99.0%

9. School life
expectancy 13 years
12 years
10 years
17 years

10. 4.33
17.09
Death rate
Deaths / 1,000 Population
5.96
10.19

11. Access to safe drinking water
Environment CO2 emission per capita
Ecological footprint

12. Access to safe
drinking water
100%
97%
85%
88%
97%

13. 1.8 tons
CO2 emissions 1.3 tons
9.2 tons
per capita
8.8 tons

14. Ecological 2.3
footprint
a measurement of how much land, water
and natural resources a person, city, country
or humanity as a whole requires to produce
the resource it consumes.
8.0
2.1
1.3

15. Life expectancy
Happiness Life satisfaction
Happy Planet Index (HPI)

16. 50.8
Life expectancy
78.5
73.7
77.9

17. 8.5
Life satisfaction
8.1
6.5
5.0

18. Happy Planet 35.5
76.1
Index (HPI)
measure the environmental efficiency with
which, country by country, people live long
and happy lives
66.5
29.7

19. Which country would you choose?

20. COSTA RICA