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Central America Internet Stats > Site Links > Costa Rica
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Costa Rica
Internet usage,
broadband and telecommunications reports
Internet Usage Statistics:
4,048,302
Internet users as of June, 2014;
84.7% of the population, according to IWS.
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Costa Rica - officially the Republic of Costa Rica -
is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama
to the south-southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, and the
Caribbean Sea to the east. Costa Rica was the first country in the world to
constitutionally abolish its army.
Costa Rica Population
Estimate:
4,755,234 population for 2014, according to the
US Census Bureau.
Latest Country GNI
Estimate:
GNI per
capita was US$ 8,740 for 2012, according to the World
Bank.
Country Area (Size):
51,090 sq km
- Population density: 93 persons per sq km
Internet Usage and
Population Growth:
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YEAR
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Users
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Population
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% Pen.
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Usage
Source
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2000
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250,000
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3,693,800
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6.8
%
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ITU
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2003
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800,000
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4,267,000
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18.7 %
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ITU
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2005
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1,000,000
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4,301,172
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23.2 %
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ITU
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2008
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1,500,000
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4,195,914
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35.7 %
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ITU
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2012
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2,000,000
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4,636,348
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43.1 %
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ITU
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2014
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4,028,302
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4,755,234
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84.7 %
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IWS
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Costa Rica Search Engines:
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Name
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Language
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Description
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BRUNCAS
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English
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Yellow Pages, White Pages,
Industrial and Real Estate Directory
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Costa Rica Info
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English
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Costa Rica
directory
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Costa Rica Online
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English
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Travel guide to hotels,
tours, maps, weather and business in Costa Rica
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Google
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English &
Spanish
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Access to Costa Rica's
websites and Google's general database!
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Costa Rica Hotels
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English &
Spanish
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Tourist and Travel
Links
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LANIC
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English,
Spanish & Portuguese
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Costa Rica
directory
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TicoVista
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English
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Costa Rica search engine and
real estate directory
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dmoz
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English
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Open Directory about
Costa Rica
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Costa Rica Web
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English
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Web sites about
Costa Rica
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Costa Rica Telecommunications
Market Overview & Statistics
Costa Rica
is served by a relatively modern telecom infrastructure and has
the second highest Internet penetration for Latin America after
Chile. Yet Costa Rica is the region’s least liberalised
telecom market. State-owned Instituto Costarricense de
Electricidad (ICE) and its subsidiary RACSA are the monopoly
providers of both fixed-line and mobile telephony, Internet and
data communications – in fact, of virtually all telecom
services except for pay TV. Although this situation worked in the
past, it is now leading to considerable problems, such as: long
waiting lists for phones (mobile lines completely ran dry in
December 2004); stifling of new technologies such as VoIP (which
threaten ICE’s hegemony); and difficulties in implementing
new convergence strategies. Get this report
here.
Telecommunications, Telecoms, Mobile and
Broadband in Latin America
This report provides a comprehensive overview of telecommunications in Latin America
and the Caribbean (LAC), a region that includes some of the world's most important
emerging markets. See the table of content and executive summary
here.
Costa Rica
Profile:
Country Profile by
the CIA
Costa Rica profile
by the BBC
Wikipedia information on
Costa Rica
Costa Rica News
Costa Rica
News
A.M. Costa Rica daily news source.
Tico Times Online
Costa Rica and Central America news
Procomer
PROCOMER Costa Rican Trade Promotion Agency (in Spanish).
Click on this link to see the latest Telecommunications
Market Reports for Central America. More statistics, figures and updates become available all the
time.
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