Live population of Costa Rica

According to official figures released by the United Nations and World Bank Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, the population of Costa Rica as of 2023 Jun 7 was 5,185,376

According to the 2022 Census, Costa Rica's share of the world population is 0.065%

Costa Rica population (2022) and previous data

Year	Over-all-population	Male	Female	Rural-population	Density- /km2	fertility-rate /women	Death-rate		Life-expectancy
Year	Over-all-population	Male	Female	Rural-population	Density- /km2	fertility-rate /women	M	F	M	F
2020	5,094,114	2,545,076	2,549,038	969,965	99.76	1.76	77,882	63,108	78.53	83.39
2015	4,847,805	2,425,530	2,422,275	1,112,422	94.94	1.76	70,607	54,815	77.43	82.66
2010	4,577,371	2,292,775	2,284,596	1,284,690	89.64	1.85	62,019	48,423	76.70	81.69
2005	4,285,504	2,148,586	2,136,918	1,458,203	83.93	1.94	54,018	42,692	76.06	80.83
2000	3,962,369	1,988,647	1,973,722	1,607,403	77.60	2.15	46,597	37,084	75.50	80.18
1995	3,545,524	1,782,855	1,762,669	1,595,322	69.43	2.61	41,003	32,390	74.68	79.46
1990	3,119,436	1,571,469	1,547,967	1,547,893	61.09	3.06	37,057	28,400	73.60	78.67
1985	2,736,719	1,380,176	1,356,543	1,489,465	53.59	3.40	33,866	24,845	72.52	77.87
1980	2,389,973	1,207,087	1,182,886	1,359,553	46.80	3.50	32,031	22,907	70.90	76.25
1975	2,094,186	1,058,864	1,035,322	1,230,146	41.01	3.70	32,419	24,142	68.24	73
1970	1,847,394	935,808	911,586	1,131,013	36.18	4.05	34,557	25,627	64.77	69.82
1965	1,592,834	808,334	784,500	1,020,680	31.19	5.26	36,102	28,206	62.54	66.89
1960	1,330,787	676,237	654,550	876,425	26.06	6.49	37,233	30,726	60.32	63.82
1955	1,110,088	564,807	545,281	740,293	21.74	6.64	36,426	31,152	57.42	60.20
1950	945,683	481,919	463,764	637,986	18.52	6.12	33,928	29,474	54.80	57.29