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Costa Rica rankings 2026: where Costa Rica places in 93 global Top 10s

Costa Rica is #2 in Countries with the highest egg yields per hen and inside the top 10 of 18 rankings. Every position, value and source, regenerated as the data refreshes.

How does Costa Rica compare with the rest of the world? On Top10Earth it is ranked in 93 of 491 live country rankings, each one built from a named public source. This page gathers every position, value and date in one place. Its best position is #2 in Countries with the highest egg yields per hen, where it is measured at 21.2 kilograms per bird (Egg yield per bird) as of 2026-11-02. Costa Rica finishes inside the top 10 in 18 rankings.

Top 10 finishes

Costa Rica is inside the top 10 of 18 further rankings. Each entry names the country directly above it, which is the position to beat at the next refresh.

The remaining 6 top-10 positions are in the full list at the end of this guide.

Costa Rica by theme

The rankings are grouped by category below, so the economic picture, the health picture and the environmental picture can be read separately. Positions are out of the number of countries each source reports, which differs by ranking.

Food and agriculture

In food and agriculture, Costa Rica holds 24 positions: #2 of 50 in Countries with the highest egg yields per hen (21.2 kilograms per bird), #2 of 50 in Countries with the highest share of overexploited fish stocks (100 %), #4 of 50 in Countries with the highest fertilizer use per hectare (1,402.54 kg per hectare of arable land) and #6 of 50 in Countries applying the most potash fertilizer per hectare (122.34 kilograms per hectare). 20 more rankings are listed below.

World and society

In world and society, Costa Rica holds 22 positions: #3 of 41 in Countries with the highest share of births outside marriage (74 %), #4 of 50 in Countries with the highest happiness scores (7.44 score (0-10)), #4 of 50 in Countries with the highest polio vaccine coverage (99 %) and #6 of 50 in Countries with the highest average annual precipitation (2,926 mm per year). 18 more rankings are listed below.

Environment and energy

In environment and energy, Costa Rica holds 16 positions: #4 of 50 in Countries with the highest share of renewable electricity (100 %), #17 of 49 in Countries producing the most palm oil (280.46 thousand tonnes), #18 of 50 in Countries with the highest share of waters that are protected (28.4 % of territorial waters) and #24 of 50 in Countries with the highest share of electricity from hydropower (74.35 % of total electricity). 12 more rankings are listed below.

Finance and crypto

In finance and crypto, Costa Rica holds 16 positions: #6 of 50 in Countries with the most bank depositors per 1,000 adults (1,958 per 1,000 adults), #9 of 50 in Countries with the highest income inequality (0.45 index (0-1)), #10 of 50 in Countries with the highest income inequality before tax (65.35 Gini index) and #15 of 50 in Countries where the top 1% earn the largest share of income (20.32 %). 12 more rankings are listed below.

Health and wellbeing

In health and wellbeing, Costa Rica holds 10 positions: #9 of 50 in Countries with the highest cocaine-related death rates (0.36 per 100,000 people), #13 of 50 in Countries with the highest stomach cancer death rates (8.68 deaths per 100,000 people), #32 of 50 in Countries with the highest life expectancy at birth (78.63 years) and #33 of 50 in Countries with the highest healthy life expectancy at birth (67.63 years). 6 more rankings are listed below.

Education and science

In education and science, Costa Rica holds 4 positions: #6 of 50 in Countries with the highest pre-primary school enrolment (99.17 %), #21 of 50 in Countries with the longest compulsory education (13 years), #48 of 50 in Countries with the highest government spending on education as a share of GDP (5.31 % of GDP) and #50 of 50 in Countries with the most students reaching minimum reading level (lower sec.) (52.93 %).

Consumer tech

In consumer tech, Costa Rica holds 1 position: #47 of 50 in Countries by mobile subscriptions per 100 people (136.02 per 100 people).

What changed at the latest refresh

Comparing each ranking's newest snapshot with the one before it, Costa Rica moved in 87 rankings:

Since the first snapshot

Top10Earth keeps every snapshot it publishes. Where a ranking has been captured at least three times, the first recorded position can be compared with today's:

Where Costa Rica ranks lowest

A guide that only listed wins would be misleading. Costa Rica's lowest current positions are 50th of 50 in Biggest exporters of ICT services (2,667.84 BoP, current US$ million), 50th of 50 in Countries with the highest rice yields (4.36 tonnes per hectare) and 50th of 50 in Countries with the most students reaching minimum reading level (lower sec.) (52.93 %). Whether a low position is good or bad depends on the metric: being near the bottom of an emissions or mortality ranking is the better place to be.

Every ranking that includes Costa Rica

How to read these numbers

Each ranking measures one metric from one named source at one time, so a #3 in one table and a #3 in another are not directly comparable. Countries also report in different years: the capture date is when Top10Earth fetched the data, while the source's own year is stated on each ranking page under methodology. For a side-by-side with another country on the same measures, open any ranking and use the head-to-head links, or visit Costa Rica's entity page for the live table and rank-history chart.

Top10Earth never estimates or edits a value. Each number is fetched from its source on a schedule, hashed, stored and ranked by software, then checked by a quality gate before it is published. If a refresh fails that gate the previous snapshot stays live and a person looks at why. Every past snapshot is kept, which is what makes the rank-history charts on each ranking page possible.

Questions people ask about Costa Rica

What is Costa Rica's best ranking on Top10Earth?

#2 in Countries with the highest egg yields per hen, with 21.2 kilograms per bird (Egg yield per bird) as of 2026-11-02.

How many rankings include Costa Rica?

93 current country rankings out of 491 on the site.

Is Costa Rica in the top 10 of anything?

Yes: 18 rankings, including #2 in Countries with the highest egg yields per hen, #2 in Countries with the highest share of overexploited fish stocks and #3 in Countries with the highest share of births outside marriage.

Where do the numbers come from?

From Our World in Data and World Bank Open Data. Each ranking page names its source, metric definition and capture date.

When was this guide last updated?

The newest snapshot used here was captured on 2026-11-02. The guide is regenerated automatically as rankings refresh.

Live table and history →

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