Costa Rica's ICT service exports (% of service exports, BoP) was 14.75% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 1.73 percentage points from 13.02% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 14.75% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 17.21% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 13.02% | 2015 |
| Highest | 17.43% | 2021 |
| Lowest | 3.9% | 1999 |
| Average since 2016 | 14.15% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 5.1% | 1995 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Costa Rica's ICT service exports (% of service exports, BoP) rose 0.53 percentage points on 2024 (from 14.22% to 14.75%).
Across the 29 yearly changes before that (1996 to 2024), the average change was +0.31 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 1.6 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 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 5.87 percentage points in 2020 and the biggest yearly fall was 3 percentage points in 2022. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 15% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2025, Costa Rica had the 30th highest value of the 130 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 | 14.75% | 2025 |
| World | 15.71% | 2025 |
| Latin America & Caribbean | 8.39% | 2025 |
| High income | 14.48% | 2025 |
Closest to Costa Rica in the 2025 ranking
What this measures
Information and communication technology service exports include computer and communications services (telecommunications and postal and courier services) and information services (computer data and news-related service transactions).
Limitations: Discrepancies may arise in the balance of payments because there is no single source for balance of payments data and therefore no way to ensure that the data are fully consistent. Sources include customs data, monetary accounts of the banking system, external debt records, information provided by enterprises, surveys to estimate service transactions, and foreign exchange records. Differences in collection methods - such as in timing, definitions of residence and ownership, and the exchange rate used to value transactions - contribute to net errors and omissions. In addition, smuggling and other illegal or quasi-legal transactions may be unrecorded or misrecorded.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 31 values
| Year | ICT service exports (% of service exports, BoP) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 14.75 |
| 2024 | 14.22 |
| 2023 | 13.96 |
| 2022 | 14.43 |
| 2021 | 17.43 |
| 2020 | 17.21 |
| 2019 | 11.34 |
| 2018 | 11.79 |
| 2017 | 13.53 |
| 2016 | 12.82 |
| 2015 |
ICT service exports (% of service exports, BoP) in nearby economies
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 ICT service exports (% of service exports, BoP)?
- 14.75% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1995?
- It is up 9.66 percentage points from 5.1% in 1995. The highest value was 17.43% in 2021 and the lowest 3.9% in 1999.
- How does Costa Rica rank?
- 30th highest of 130 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in ICT service exports (% of service exports, BoP) unusual for Costa Rica?
- In 2025, Costa Rica's ICT service exports (% of service exports, BoP) rose 0.53 percentage points on 2024 (from 14.22% to 14.75%). Across the 29 yearly changes before that (1996 to 2024), the average change was +0.31 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 1.6 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 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 BX.GSR.CCIS.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF) 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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