Costa Rica vs Cuba: Gross Domestic Product — Value US$ per capita
Gross Domestic Product — Value US$ per capita over time
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
How they compare
Cuba currently reports 19,962 USD against 18,587 USD in Costa Rica, a difference of 1,375 USD.
That makes Cuba's figure about 1.1 times Costa Rica's.
The two have swapped places 5 times across 55 shared years of data; in 1970 it was Costa Rica ahead.
Costa Rica ranks 74th and Cuba ranks 71st of 195 countries.
Across the 6 decades both report, Costa Rica averaged higher in 5 and Cuba in 1.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Costa Rica | Cuba | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 1,286 USD | 1,273 USD | 12.81 USD | Costa Rica |
| 1980s | 1,856 USD | 2,306 USD | 449.89 USD | Cuba |
| 1990s | 3,029 USD | 2,395 USD | 633.53 USD | Costa Rica |
| 2000s | 5,034 USD | 3,974 USD | 1,060 USD | Costa Rica |
| 2010s | 11,098 USD | 7,489 USD | 3,609 USD | Costa Rica |
| 2020s | 14,877 USD | 14,518 USD | 359.56 USD | Costa Rica |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher gross domestic product — value us$ per capita, Costa Rica or Cuba?
- Cuba, at 19,962 USD against 18,587 USD in Costa Rica as of 2024.
- What is the difference in gross domestic product — value us$ per capita between Costa Rica and Cuba?
- 1,375 USD, with Cuba ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Costa Rica and Cuba?
- 55 years are reported by both, from 1970 to 2024.
- How do Costa Rica and Cuba rank globally for gross domestic product — value us$ per capita?
- Costa Rica ranks 74th and Cuba ranks 71st of 195 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Gross Domestic Product — Value US$ per capita. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
The FAOSTAT Macro Indicators database provides a selection of country-level macro indicators relating to total economy (Gross Domestic Product, Gross Fixed Capital Formation); agriculture activity; agriculture, forestry and fishing activity; total manufacturing activity; manufacturing of food products and beverages activity; manufacturing activity of tobacco products; and manufacturing activity of food, beverage and tobacco products.It releases time series for a selection of National Accounts variables, including gross domestic product, gross fixed capital formation, industry-level value added and gross output. The database also proposes additional indicators such as gross domestic product per capita, year-on-year growth rates and measures of industry contribution to gross domestic product. All data relating to Gross Domestic Product, Gross Fixed Capital Formation, agriculture, forestry and fishing activity, and to total manufacturing activity originates from the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) National Accounts Estimates of Main Aggregates database, which consists of a complete and consistent set of time series of the main National Accounts aggregates of all UN Members States and other territories in the world for which National Accounts information is available. The UNSD database's content is based on the countries' official National Accounts data reported to UNSD through the annual National Accounts Questionnaire, supplemented with data estimates for any years and countries with incomplete or inconsistent information (See http://unstats.un.org/unsd/snaama/Introduction.asp). Data series relating to the sub-industry Agriculture activity are obtained from the UNSD national accounts Official Country Data databases while series on the Manufacturing activity of food and beverages products, manufacturing activity of tobacco products and manufacturing activity of food, beverages and tobacco products originates from the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) INDSTAT2 database. In order to ensure that sub-industry series are consistent in levels with National Accounts based series, which is needed to support comparability across industries (agriculture vs. agro-industry and sub-industries), UNIDO originating series are rescaled on UNSD National Accounts Estimates of Main Aggregates data series (See Section 17.5 for a more detailed description of the data processing steps).