Costa Rica population density for 2021 was 100.94, a 0.6% increase from 2020.
Costa Rica population density for 2020 was 100.34, a 0.76% increase from 2019.
Costa Rica population density for 2019 was 99.58, a 0.87% increase from 2018.
Costa Rica population density for 2018 was 98.72, a 0.94% increase from 2017.
Population density is midyear population divided by land area in square kilometers. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship--except for refugees not permanently settled in the country of asylum, who are generally considered part of the population of their country of origin. Land area is a country's total area, excluding area under inland water bodies, national claims to continental shelf, and exclusive economic zones. In most cases the definition of inland water bodies includes major rivers and lakes.