Côte d’Ivoire (120th) has experienced the greatest improvement in its prosperity of any country in the world in the past decade. It has seen major improvements in all pillars apart from Personal Freedom and Natural Environment, rising 24 places in the global rankings as a result. It has made particularly strong progress in Economic Quality since 2011, with high-tech manufactured exports more than doubling as a share of total exports.
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Costa Rica
Ranked 39th of 167
39
th
on the Legatum
Prosperity Index™
OVERALL PROSPERITY
Costa Rica is 39th in the overall Prosperity Index rankings. Since 2011, Costa Rica has remained at the same position.
PILLAR RANKINGS
Costa Rica performs most strongly in Personal Freedom and Natural Environment but is weakest in Economic Quality. The biggest improvement compared to a decade ago came in Investment Environment.
Visit our Rankings table to see how Costa Rica compares to other countries.
When comparing multiple countries on a spider chart, data points that appear
further away from the center represent a better performance to the points that are closer to the center.