| Metric | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Tracked flow records | 718 | Raw count of trade-flow records in the database naming Costa Rica as an origin or destination — a record count, never a summed dollar total. |
| Port coverage | 5of 59 | Ports catalogued for Costa Rica with verified cargo statistics tracked on PortIndex. |
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How concentrated Costa Rica's trade is across its top partner countries, computed from currently-tracked trade flows (not the historical 1997–2015 World Bank dataset). Measures country-to-country concentration only — Costa Rica's trade_flows records don't carry product-level detail to break this down further.
+ 214 more tracked partners not shown above.
Every one of Costa Rica's 150 real trading partners reported for 2024 under UN Comtrade (CR) — a complete, deduplicated partner breakdown for this exact country/source/period combination, not a global top-N slice.
Firm-level entry/exit/survival dynamics for Costa Rica's exporting firms, whole economy (not broken down by product) so every figure below is a genuine national rate — never an average across incompatible product categories. See /exporter-dynamics to compare Costa Rica against all 68 covered countries.
| Metric | Latest value | Year | Trend (1998–2012) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of exporting firms | 4,100 | 2012 | |
| Incumbent exporting firms | 2,452 | 2012 | |
| New entrant exporting firms | 1,648 | 2012 | |
| Exiting exporting firms | 1,603 | 2012 | |
| Firm entry rate | 40.2% | 2012 | |
| Firm exit rate | 39.5% | 2012 | |
| Exporter concentration (EDD HHI, 0–1 scale) | 0.046 | 2012 | |
| Product categories exported (distinct HS4 codes) | 1,009 | 2012 | |
| Avg. export value per exporting firm | $2.8M | 2012 | |
| Median export value per exporting firm | $27.2K | 2012 | |
| Avg. destination countries per exporting firm | 2.9 | 2013 | |
| Median destination countries per exporting firm | 1.0 | 2013 |
The 2012 mean is 102x the median — a small number of large exporting firms account for most of the export value; the typical firm exports far less than the average figure suggests.
Top product categories among Costa Rica's exporting firms by number of exporters, 2012 — each row is a real, separately-reported HS2 product category, never combined with another.
| Product category (HS2) | Exporting firms |
|---|---|
| Machinery and mechanical appliances HS 84 | 1,349 |
| Plastics and articles thereof HS 39 | 872 |
| Electrical machinery and equipment HS 85 | 859 |
| Printed books, newspapers HS 49 | 764 |
| Articles of iron or steel HS 73 | 690 |
| Furniture, bedding, lamps HS 94 | 688 |
| Paper and paperboard HS 48 | 502 |
| Pharmaceutical products HS 30 | 495 |
Top manufacturing industries among Costa Rica's exporting firms by number of exporters, 2012 — each row is a real, separately-reported ISIC industry, never combined with another.
| Manufacturing industry (ISIC) | Exporting firms |
|---|---|
| Plastics products ISIC 252 | 1,034 |
| Other fabricated metal products; metalworking ISIC 289 | 866 |
| Publishing ISIC 221 | 661 |
| Other chemical products ISIC 242 | 637 |
| Furniture ISIC 361 | 630 |
| General purpose machinery ISIC 291 | 605 |
| Special purpose machinery ISIC 292 | 601 |
| Other manufacturing ISIC 369 | 573 |