Economy of Costa Rica
The economy of Costa Rica is principally dependent on industries like food processing, manufacturing, tourism, textile, electronics and medical equipments.Agriculture in Costa Rica accounts for a major portion to the country's economy. Some of the major agricultural products in Costa Rica include banana, coffee, pineapples, fresh fruits, papaya, mango, watermelon, fruit pulps, beets, cucumbers, tomatoes and many more.
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Costa Rica is one of the leading industrialized countries in Central America. Costa Rican industries are primarily being dominated by small scale industrial units. Out of the few larger-scale manufacturing units, the majority are dependent on textiles, chemical fertilizers, food processing, electronics, and microprocessor manufacturing activities. One of the other manufacturing activities include aluminum processing.
Costa Rica exports commodities like bananas, sugar, coffee, textile and medical equipments and major Costa Rican imports include consumer goods, petroleum and capital equipments.
Trading Partners: Leading trading partners of Costa Rica include US, Japan and Mexico.
In the year 2004:
GDP(Gross Domestic Product)--real growth rate: 3.9%
GDP -Contribution by the different sectors:
Agriculture: 8.5%
Currency: Currency of Costa Rica is Costa Rican Colon, which is abbreviated as CRC.
- Currency exchange rate as on Friday, September 21, 2007:
- 1 Costa Rican Colon is equal to 0.001967 US Dollar and 1 US Dollar (USD) is equal to 508.400 Costa Rican Colon (CRC).
