Political Stability - Governance score in Costa Rica

Costa Rica: Political Stability - Governance score was 85.98 0-100 in 2024. ▲ Rising

Latest (2024)
85.98 0-100
Change on year
down 0.2%
World rank
23rd
of 206 countries
All-time high
86.12 0-100
in 2023
All-time low
75.79 0-100
in 2008
Years of data
26
1996–2024

Political Stability - Governance score in Costa Rica, 1996–2024

0204060801996201020241996: 78.4 0-1001998: 80.5 0-1002000: 77.3 0-1002002: 81.8 0-1002003: 76.1 0-1002004: 77.7 0-1002005: 80 0-1002006: 80.7 0-1002007: 79.8 0-1002008: 75.8 0-1002009: 78.2 0-1002010: 79.5 0-1002011: 76.7 0-1002012: 77.1 0-1002013: 77.2 0-1002014: 77.5 0-1002015: 78.6 0-1002016: 78.4 0-1002017: 78.5 0-1002018: 76.7 0-1002019: 76.6 0-1002020: 81.7 0-1002021: 83.3 0-1002022: 85.5 0-1002023: 86.1 0-1002024: 86 0-100

Source: The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG). Measured in 0-100.

Analysis

Costa Rica recorded 85.98 0-100 for political stability - governance score in 2024.

That represents a change of down 0.2% on the previous year and up 10.9% over ten years.

Over the whole period, political stability - governance score in Costa Rica peaked at 86.12 0-100 in 2023 and was at its lowest, 75.79 0-100, in 2008.

That places Costa Rica 23rd out of 206 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.

The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 26 years of available data.

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1990s 79.47 0-100 78.42 0-100 80.51 0-100 2
2000s 78.61 0-100 75.79 0-100 81.79 0-100 9
2010s 77.68 0-100 76.59 0-100 79.45 0-100 10
2020s 84.51 0-100 81.7 0-100 86.12 0-100 5

Countries ranked near Costa Rica

  1. 20 Iceland 86.49 0-100 compare
  2. 21 Brunei 86.44 0-100 compare
  3. 22 Grenada 86.38 0-100 compare
  4. 24 New Zealand 85.55 0-100 compare
  5. 25 Japan 85.27 0-100 compare
  6. 26 Nauru 84.76 0-100 compare

See the full ranking of 206 places →

More reference data data for Costa Rica

All data for Costa Rica →

Frequently asked questions

What is political stability - governance score in Costa Rica?
Political stability - governance score in Costa Rica was 85.98 0-100 in 2024, according to The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG).
What is the highest political stability - governance score recorded in Costa Rica?
The highest recorded value was 86.12 0-100 in 2023.
What is the lowest political stability - governance score recorded in Costa Rica?
The lowest recorded value was 75.79 0-100 in 2008.
How does Costa Rica rank for political stability - governance score?
Costa Rica ranks 23rd out of 206 countries with data for 2024.
Is political stability - governance score rising or falling in Costa Rica?
Over the last ten years it is up 10.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this Costa Rica data come from?
The figures come from The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG), published as part of Political Stability - Governance score (0-100). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

Download this data

CSV · JSON — 26 observations, free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data).

About this data

Indicator
Political Stability - Governance score (0-100)
Unit
0-100
Source
The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG)
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
206 places, 5,229 data points, 1996–2024
Last refreshed

Political Stability (PV) captures perceptions of the extent to which political power and governance are secure from destabilization, and of the likelihood that authority will be challenged or altered through violent, coercive, or unconstitutional means. Governance score is a linear transformation of the governance estimate using hypothetical worst-case and base-case countries. It is an absolute score ranging from 0-100. Larger values correspond to better governance. The (country-series-time) metadata include the (a) number of sources, and (b) confidence intervals (lower and upper bound). The number of sources indicates the number of underlying data sources on which the governance score (respectively the underlying governance estimate) is based. The confidence intervals include the lower and upper bound of the 90% confidence interval for the governance score. Confidence intervals are a statistical range of values that likely contain the true value (of what is being estimated).