Costa Rica's high-technology exports (% of manufactured exports) was 22.86% in 2024, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 13.65 percentage points from 36.51% in 2014.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 22.86% | 2024 |
| Five years earlier | 17.56% | 2019 |
| Ten years earlier | 36.51% | 2014 |
| Highest | 45.44% | 2007 |
| Lowest | 15.68% | 2020 |
| Average since 2015 | 19.16% | 2015–2024 |
| First recorded | 45.44% | 2007 |
What the numbers say
In 2024, Costa Rica's high-technology exports (% of manufactured exports) fell 1.32 percentage points on 2023 (from 24.18% to 22.86%).
Across the 16 yearly changes before that (2008 to 2023), the average change was −1.33 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 5.93 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.0 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 5.01 percentage points in 2022 and the biggest yearly fall was 19.52 percentage points in 2015. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2015 to 2024 the straight-line trend is upward, about 0.63 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 45% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2024, Costa Rica had the 23rd highest value of the 119 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Costa Rica | 22.86% | 2024 |
| World | 24.69% | 2024 |
| Latin America & Caribbean | 13.13% | 2024 |
| High income | 25.8% | 2024 |
Closest to Costa Rica in the 2024 ranking
What this measures
High-technology exports are products with high R&D intensity, such as in aerospace, computers, pharmaceuticals, scientific instruments, and electrical machinery.
Limitations: The indicator is based on data reported by countries to COMTRADE. The export values presented in the World Development Indicators represent Gross Exports less Re-Exports. The values may be impacted in cases of reporting errors or missing data, for example if countries do not report Re-Exports for one or more periods.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 18 values
| Year | High-technology exports (% of manufactured exports) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 22.86 |
| 2023 | 24.18 |
| 2022 | 21.97 |
| 2021 | 16.97 |
| 2020 | 15.68 |
| 2019 | 17.56 |
| 2018 | 18.47 |
| 2017 | 18.5 |
| 2016 | 18.44 |
| 2015 | 16.98 |
| 2014 |
High-technology exports (% of manufactured exports) in nearby economies
- Antigua and Barbuda — 0% (2024)
- Argentina — 3.85% (2024)
- Aruba — 6.87% (2023)
- Bahamas, The — 0% (2024)
- Belize — 0.000191% (2024)
- Bolivia — 8.79% (2024)
- Brazil — 11.11% (2024)
- Chile — 8.63% (2024)
- Colombia — 9.03% (2024)
- Dominica
More infrastructure data for Costa Rica
- Fixed telephone subscriptions — 610,457 (2024)
- Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) — 11.9 (2024)
- Air transport, registered carrier departures worldwide — 15,698 (2023)
- Air transport, freight (million ton-km) — 7.18 (2023)
- Air transport, passengers carried — 1.97 million (2023)
- Mobile cellular subscriptions — 6.98 million (2024)
- Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) — 136.03 (2024)
- Patent applications, nonresidents — 438 (2024)
- Patent applications, residents — 15 (2024)
- Medium and high-tech exports (% manufactured exports)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Costa Rica's high-technology exports (% of manufactured exports)?
- 22.86% in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 2007?
- It is down 22.59 percentage points from 45.44% in 2007. The highest value was 45.44% in 2007 and the lowest 15.68% in 2020.
- How does Costa Rica rank?
- 23rd highest of 119 economies with data for 2024.
- Is the latest change in high-technology exports (% of manufactured exports) unusual for Costa Rica?
- In 2024, Costa Rica's high-technology exports (% of manufactured exports) fell 1.32 percentage points on 2023 (from 24.18% to 22.86%). Across the 16 yearly changes before that (2008 to 2023), the average change was −1.33 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 5.93 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.0 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator TX.VAL.TECH.MF.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Comtrade database, United Nations (UN), uri: comtrade.un.org, publisher: UN Statistics Division; World Integrated Trade Solution system (WITS), World Bank (WB), uri: https://wits.worldbank.org/ Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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