Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in British Virgin Islands instead of Costa Rica, you would:

Economy

make 32.6% more money

Costa Rica has a GDP per capita of $25,800 as of 2023, while in British Virgin Islands, the GDP per capita is $34,200 as of 2017.

be 65.1% less likely to be unemployed

In Costa Rica, 8.3% of adults are unemployed as of 2023. In British Virgin Islands, that number is 2.9% as of 2015.

Life

be 68.8% more likely to die during infancy

In Costa Rica, approximately 8.4 children (per 1,000 live births) die before they reach the age of one as of 2022. In British Virgin Islands, on the other hand, 14.2 children do as of 2022.

Expenditures

spend 61.2% less on education

Costa Rica spends 6.7% of its total GDP on education as of 2020. British Virgin Islands spends 2.6% of total GDP on education as of 2020.

Geography

see 93.8% less coastline

Costa Rica has a total of 1,290 km of coastline. In British Virgin Islands, that number is 80 km.

The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook.

British Virgin Islands: At a glance

British Virgin Islands (sometimes abbreviated BVI) is a sovereign country in Central America/Caribbean, with a total land area of approximately 151 sq km. First inhabited by Arawak and later by Carib Indians, the Virgin Islands were settled by the Dutch in 1648 and then annexed by the English in 1672. The islands were part of the British colony of the Leeward Islands from 1872-1960; they were granted autonomy in 1967. The economy is closely tied to the larger and more populous US Virgin Islands to the west; the US dollar is the legal currency.
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