Chile vs Costa Rica: Prosperity gap

Chile

1.59

in 2024

Costa Rica

1.71

in 2025

Chile rank

79th

Costa Rica rank

77th

Prosperity gap over time

Costa Rica currently reports 1.71 against 1.59 in Chile, a difference of 0.1176.

That makes Costa Rica's figure about 1.1 times Chile's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 16 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Costa Rica ahead.

Chile ranks 79th and Costa Rica ranks 77th of 120 countries.

Indicator: Prosperity gap
Source: World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 120 places, 2,148 data points, 1963–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Average factor by which incomes need to be multiplied to bring everyone to the prosperity standard of $28 per person per day.