International rankings of Costa Rica

This is a list of key international rankings of Costa Rica

Index (Year) Author / Editor / Source Year of
publication		 Countries
sampled		 World
Ranking (1)		 Ranking in
Latin America(2)
Happy Planet Index (2.0) New Economics Foundation[1]
2009
 143
1
1
Environmental Performance (2010) Yale University[2]
2010
 163
3
1
Human Poverty, HPI-1 (2005)(3) United Nations (UNDP)[3]
2007-08
 108
5
4
Poverty below $2 a day (1990-2005)(4) United Nations (UNDP)[4]
2007-08
 71
8
3
Democracy (2010) Economist Intelligence Unit[5]
2010
 167
24
2
Global Peace (2010) Economist Intelligence Unit[6]
2010
 149
26
2
Press Freedom (2010) Reporters Without Borders[7]
2010
 178
29
1
Prosperity Index (2010) Legatum Institute[8]
2010
 110
33
3
Quality-of-life (2005) Economist Intelligence Unit[9]
2007
 111
35
3
World's Best Countries (2008/09) Newsweek[10]
2010
 100
35
2
Business Environment Rankings (2009) Economist Intelligence Unit[11]
2009
 82
40
4
Corruption Perception (2010) Transparency International[12]
2010
 178
41
3
Travel and Tourism Competitiveness (2011) World Economic Forum[13]
2011
 139
44
2
Networked Readiness Index (2010-2011)
(Global Information Technology Report)		 World Economic Forum[14]
2011
 138
46
3
Economic Freedom (2010) The Heritage Foundation/The Wall Street Journal[15]
2010
 179
49
7
Global Competitiveness (2011-2012) World Economic Forum[16]
2011
 142
61
5
Human Development (2011) United Nations (UNDP) [17]
2011
 187
69
7
Income inequality (1989-2007)(5) United Nations (UNDP)[18]
2007-2008
 126
100
5
Human Opportunity Index (1995-2005) (6) World Bank[19]
2008
 19
N/A(6)
3
Life Satisfaction Index (2006-2007) (7) Inter-American Development Bank[20]
2008
 24
N/A(7)
1
(1) Worldwide ranking among countries evaluated. See notes (3) and (4) also
(2) Ranking among the 20 Latin American countries (Puerto Rico is not included).
(3) Ranking among 108 developing countries with available data only.
(4) Ranking among 71 developing countries with available data only. Countries in the sample suveyed between 1990-2005. Refers to population below income poverty line as define by the World Bank's $2 per day indicator
(5) Because the Gini coefficient used for the ranking corresponds to different years depending of the country, and the underlying household surveys differ in method and in the type of data collected, the distribution data are not strictly comparable across countries. The ranking therefore is only a proxy for reference purposes.
(6) The Human Opportunity Index study was performed by the World Bank among 19 countries in the Latin American and the Caribbean region, where statistics and census information is most reliable. Therefore, it is a regional index and there is no worldwide ranking available.
(7) The Life Satisfaction Index study was performed by the Inter-American Development Bank among 24 countries in the Latin American and the Caribbean region, based on IDB calculations based on Gallup World Poll 2006 - 2007 and World Development Indicators. Therefore, it is a regional index.

See also

References

  1. ^ New Economics Foundation. "The Happy Planet Index". http://www.happyplanetindex.org/public-data/files/happy-planet-index-2-0.pdf. Retrieved 2009-07-05. 
  2. ^ Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy / Center for International Earth Science Information Network at Columbia University. "2010 Environmental Performance Index". http://epi.yale.edu/Home. Retrieved 2010-01-27. 
  3. ^ UNPD Human Development Report 2007/2008. "Table 3: Human poverty index: developing countries". Archived from the original on 2008-02-26. http://web.archive.org/web/20080226204118/http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/hdr_20072008_en_indicator_tables.pdf. Retrieved 2008-03-20.  page 240
  4. ^ UNPD Human Development Report 2007/2008. "Table 3: Human poverty index: developing countries". Archived from the original on 2008-02-26. http://web.archive.org/web/20080226204118/http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/hdr_20072008_en_indicator_tables.pdf. Retrieved 2008-03-20.  page 238-240
  5. ^ The Economist Intelligence Unit. "Democracy Index 2010: Democracy in retreat". http://graphics.eiu.com/PDF/Democracy_Index_2010_web.pdf. Retrieved 2011-03-20. 
  6. ^ The Economist Intelligence Unit et al. (Vision of Humanity website). "Global Peace Index 2010". http://www.visionofhumanity.org/gpi-data/#/2010/scor/. Retrieved 2011-03-21. 
  7. ^ Reporters Without Borders. "Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2010". http://en.rsf.org/press-freedom-index-2010,1034.html. Retrieved 2011-03-20. 
  8. ^ Legatum Institute. "The 2010 Legatum Prosperity Index: Costa Rica". http://www.prosperity.com/country.aspx?id=CS. Retrieved 2011-03-15. 
  9. ^ The Economist Intelligence Unit. "Pocket World in Figures 2008". http://www.economist.com/media/pdf/QUALITY_OF_LIFE.pdf. Retrieved 2008-03-13. 
  10. ^ Newsweek. "The World's Best Countries". http://www.newsweek.com/2010/08/15/interactive-infographic-of-the-worlds-best-countries.html. Retrieved 2010-08-21. 
  11. ^ The Economist Intelligence Unit. "Business environment rankings (2009-13)". http://www.eiuresources.com/mediadir/default.asp?PR=2009052001. Retrieved 2011-03-21. 
  12. ^ Transparency International. "Corruption Perception Index 2010: Results by Country". http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2010/results. Retrieved 2011-03-21. 
  13. ^ Jennifer Blanke and Thea Chiesa, Editors (2011). "Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report 2011". World Economic Forum, Geneva, Switzerland. http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_TravelTourismCompetitiveness_Report_2011.pdf. Retrieved 2011-03-15. 
  14. ^ Soumitra Dutta and Irene Mia (2011). "The Global Information Technology Report 2010–2011 - Transformations 2.0". World Economic Forum, Geneva, Switzerland. http://reports.weforum.org/global-information-technology-report/content/pdf/wef-gitr-2010-2011.pdf. Retrieved 2011-04-13. 
  15. ^ The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal. "Index of Economic Freedom World Rankings 2010". http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking. Retrieved 2011-03-21. 
  16. ^ "The Global Competitiveness Index 2011-2012 rankings". World Economic Forum. http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GCR_CompetitivenessIndexRanking_2011-12.pdf. Retrieved 2011-11-05. 
  17. ^ UNDP Human Development Report 2011. "Table 1: Human development index and its components". UNDP. http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_2011_EN_Complete.pdf. Retrieved 2011-11-05.  See pp. 128
  18. ^ UNPD Human Development Report 2007/2008. "Inequality in income or expenditure". http://hdrstats.undp.org/indicators/147.html. Retrieved 2008-08-05. 
  19. ^ World Bank Human Opportunity Index. "Measuring Inequality of Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean". http://siteresources.worldbank.org/LACEXT/Resources/258553-1222276310889/Book_HOI.pdf. Retrieved 2008-11-12. 
  20. ^ Inter-American Development Bank. "Faster Economic Growth Hurts Life Satisfaction in Latin America and the Caribbean". http://www.iadb.org/NEWS/detail.cfm?id=4859. Retrieved 2008-11-23.