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Internet World Stats > Central America > Costa Rica
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Costa Rica
Internet usage,
broadband and telecommunications reports
Internet Usage Statistics:
1,214,400
Internet users as of August, 2007;
27.0% of the population, according to ITU.
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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:
4,504,013 population for 2007, according to
world-gazetteer.
Latest Country GNI
Estimate:
GNI per
capita was US$ 4,670 for 2004, according to the World
Bank.
Country Area (Size):
51,090 sq km
- Population density: 85 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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2007
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1,214,400
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4,504,013
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27.0 %
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ITU
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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 Click
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English
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Costa Rica
directory
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Costa Rica Pages
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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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Guias Costa Rica
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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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French
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French Language sites about
Costa Rica
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Yahoo!
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German
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German Language 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.
Costa Rica
Profile:
Country Profile by
the CIA
Costa Rica profile
by the BBC
Wikipedia information on
Costa Rica
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