Costa Rica vs Mexico: Gross National Income — Value US$ per capita
Gross National Income — Value US$ per capita over time
- Costa Rica
- Mexico
How they compare
Costa Rica currently reports 15,770 USD against 13,485 USD in Mexico, a difference of 2,285 USD.
That makes Costa Rica's figure about 1.2 times Mexico's.
The two have swapped places 3 times across 54 shared years of data; in 1970 it was Mexico ahead.
Costa Rica ranks 79th and Mexico ranks 82nd of 195 countries.
Across the 6 decades both report, Costa Rica averaged higher in 2 and Mexico in 4.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Costa Rica | Mexico | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 1,258 USD | 1,639 USD | 380.99 USD | Mexico |
| 1980s | 1,717 USD | 2,963 USD | 1,246 USD | Mexico |
| 1990s | 2,970 USD | 4,771 USD | 1,801 USD | Mexico |
| 2000s | 4,857 USD | 8,354 USD | 3,498 USD | Mexico |
| 2010s | 10,614 USD | 10,060 USD | 553.43 USD | Costa Rica |
| 2020s | 13,028 USD | 10,795 USD | 2,233 USD | Costa Rica |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher gross national income — value us$ per capita, Costa Rica or Mexico?
- Costa Rica, at 15,770 USD against 13,485 USD in Mexico as of 2023.
- What is the difference in gross national income — value us$ per capita between Costa Rica and Mexico?
- 2,285 USD, with Costa Rica ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Costa Rica and Mexico?
- 54 years are reported by both, from 1970 to 2023.
- How do Costa Rica and Mexico rank globally for gross national income — value us$ per capita?
- Costa Rica ranks 79th and Mexico ranks 82nd of 195 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Gross National Income — 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).