Country comparison: Brazil / Costa Rica

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Brazil and Costa Rica. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	Brazil	Costa Rica
Region:	South America	Central America
Area:	8,515,770 km²	51,100 km²
National language:	Portuguese	Spanish
Government form:	Federal presidential republic	Presidential republic
Independent since:	1822 AD	1821 AD
Capital:	Brasilia	San José

Population

Details for Brazil and Costa Rica

	Brazil	Costa Rica
Population:	214,326,000	5,154,000
Inhabitants/km²:	25.2	100.9
Life expectancy males:	Ø 71 years	Ø 77 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 77 years	Ø 82 years
Average age:	Ø 33.2 years	Ø 32.6 years
Birth rate:	13.08 ‰	12.15 ‰
Death rate:	7.42 ‰	5.63 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.19 ‰	0.76 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Brazil	Costa Rica
Political stability:	46	69
Civil rights:	44	66
Health:	59	62
Climate:	65	52
Cost of Living:	41	42
Popularity:	31	31

Economy

Details for Brazil and Costa Rica

	Brazil	Costa Rica
Currency:	Brazilian real (1 BRL = 100 Centavos)	colón (1 CRC =100 Céntimos)
Unemployment rate:	9.5 %	11.5 %
Inflation rate:	9.28 %	8.27 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	49.77 %	59.63 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	65.10 %	58.30 %
Average income:	7,740 US$	12,310 US$
Corruption index:	62 (bad)	46 (moderate)

	BRA: total	per 1000 inh.	CRI: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,608,981 M US$	7.51 M US$	64,282 M US$	12.47 M US$
Gross national product:	1,658,600 M US$	7.74 M US$	63,470 M US$	12.31 M US$
Exported goods:	379,783 M US$	1.77 M US$	24,036 M US$	4.66 M US$
Imported goods:	375,639 M US$	1.75 M US$	21,940 M US$	4.26 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Brazil and Costa Rica

	BRA: total	per 1000 inh.	CRI: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	2,000,000 km	9.33 km	5,035 km	0.98 km
Railways:	29,850 km	0.14 km	278 km	0.05 km
Waterways:	50,000 km	0.23 km	730 km	0.14 km
Harbours:	864	0.0040	11	0.0021
Passenger airports:	116	0.0005	14	0.0027

Energy balance

Details for Brazil and Costa Rica

	BRA: total	per 1000 inh.	CRI: total	per 1000 inh.
Production capacity:	1.709 tn kWh	7.97 m kWh	32.18 bn kWh	6.24 m kWh
Energy consumption:	541.00 bn kWh	2.52 m kWh	10.07 bn kWh	1.95 m kWh
Energy production:	622.01 bn kWh	2.90 m kWh	11.37 bn kWh	2.21 m kWh
Energy export:	395.00 m kWh	1,842.98 kWh	712.00 m kWh	138,146.28 kWh
Energy imports:	25.11 bn kWh	117,171.85 kWh	733.00 m kWh	142,220.82 kWh
CO2 emissions:	434.30 m t	2,026.35 t	8.24 m t	1,598.77 t

Telecommunication

Details for Brazil and Costa Rica

	Brazil	Costa Rica
International dialing:	+55	+506
Internet domain:	.br	.cr

	BRA total	BRA per 1000 inh.	CRI total	CRI per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	28,883,475	135	553,455	107
Mobile cellulars:	219,660,524	1025	7,834,435	1520
Internet server:	26,577,000	124	147,258	29
Internet users:	174,338,723	813	4,264,849	827
Broadband Internet:	41,657,433	194	1,058,767	205

Healthcare system

Details for Brazil and Costa Rica

	Brazil	Costa Rica
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	2.09	1.10
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	2.15	1.15
Diabetes:	10.4 %	9.1 %
Malaria:	5.1 %	0.0 %
HIV:	0.39 %	0.37 %
Tuberculosis:	0.48 ‰	0.11 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	67.0 %	84.0 %
Smokers:	12.8 %	8.8 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Brazil and Costa Rica

	Brazil	Costa Rica
Daytime temperatures:	30.6 °C	28.6 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	20.8 °C	19.4 °C
Water temperature:	25.6 °C	27.4 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	85 %
Rain days:	8.8	13.1
Sunshine hours per day:	6.6	5.4

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
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Native languages

	Brazil	Costa Rica
Spanish:	n/a	97.5 %
Portuguese:	93.2 %	n/a
Creole-English:	n/a	2.0 %
German:	0.5 %	n/a
Italian:	0.3 %	n/a
Chibcha:	n/a	0.3 %
Japanese:	0.2 %	n/a
Chinese:	n/a	0.2 %
Quechua:	0.1 %	n/a
other:	5.7 %	0.0 %

Religions

	Brazil	Costa Rica
State religion:	none	Catholic and Apostolic Church
Christianity:	87.5 %	92.0 %
Nondenominational:	8.0 %	3.2 %
Spiritualism:	2.2 %	n/a
other:	2.3 %	4.8 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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