Economics
Costa Rica uses the volcanoes as resources to provide them with good lands for growing crops. The country produces many plants and is very well vegetated. Some goods that grow in Costa Rica include corn, bananas, eggs, squash, guavas, oranges, and rice. The country is mainly known for their biggest export product, which is coffee. Coffee grows on a coffee bean plant and grows extremely well in the Costa Rica climate. These goods are exported to all different types of people all around the world some other exports include pineapples, melons, ornamental plants, oil from African palm nuts, medical equipment, and pharmaceutical. Almost anywhere you go in the world you can find a place that sells Costa Rica coffee.
Economic Indicators
Costa Rica runs on a mixed economy, this means that the country supports privately run businesses and publicly run businesses. Socialist policies have been very well perceived for many years by the government in Costa Rica. The government also supports operation of private companies in specific industries; while at the same time supporting publicly run companies and human and economic development that depends on the country. The GDP of Costa Rica is $14,864 per capita. Although the economy of Costa Rica is a growing economy, they still have a very large poverty rate. They have the lowest homicide rate out of all of Latin America in the previous twenty years. However the poverty rate keeps at a steady high rate of twenty percent. The Costa Rica labor force when broken up into occupation has three different jobs. The most common labor in the country is services, then there are the industries, and lastly there is the least common occupation agriculture, which is still a common area of work in the country. Costa Rican people all have a united goal to use as much natural energy as they can without having to burn fossil fuels. They are very likely to become the first country to run solely on carbon-neutral energy. This could be very successful, however it means there would need to be a consistency in the rainfall in the country.
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